Three iconic regions. One extraordinary season. Limited availability.

Witness Victoria Falls at thunderous full flow. Watch newborn wildlife take their first steps across Hwange’s lush landscapes. Glide through the Okavango Delta as summer storms paint the sky with lightning and promise.

Your reward for spontaneity? Three complimentary nights and the kind of intimate safari experience that sells out months in advance during peak season. Abundant green vistas, dramatic afternoon storms that clear as quickly as they arrive, and wildlife experiences without the queues.

Travel window: 6 January through 28 March 2026

Rates from

10 nights: to be advised as it varies on what accommodations you choose!

Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, rightfully earning its indigenous name Mosi-oa-Tunya meaning ‘The Smoke That Thunders.’ At peak flow during the Emerald Green season, over 500 million litres of water cascade over the falls every minute, creating a misty spectacle visible from 30 kilometres away. The falls stretch over 1,700 metres wide and plunge over 100 metres into the Zambezi Gorge, making it the largest curtain of falling water on Earth.

During green season, Victoria Falls transforms into a thunderous wall of water, its spray creating perpetual rainbows and feeding the lush rainforest that thrives along its edges. This is when the falls reveal their most dramatic character, raw, powerful, and utterly mesmerising.

Your stay at Old Drift Lodge places you within the wildlife-rich Zambezi National Park, where conservation meets exceptional hospitality. The property’s commitment to protecting this extraordinary ecosystem is woven into every aspect of your experience.

The impact of your stay: High

Your visit directly supports vital conservation work through multiple channels. Wild Horizons, the lodge’s owner, established the Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust, a non-profit organisation dedicated to conservation awareness, education, and local community empowerment. The mandatory conservation levy paid per person per night funds critical wildlife protection initiatives, anti-poaching efforts, and habitat preservation along the Zambezi corridor.

Old Drift’s sustainable and eco-friendly practices minimise environmental impact while your presence supports local employment and community development. By choosing to stay here during the Emerald Green Season, you’re contributing to the long-term protection of Victoria Falls and the wildlife that calls this extraordinary landscape home, all while experiencing one of nature’s most spectacular performances at its absolute peak.

Hwange National Park

Hwange National Park is Zimbabwe’s largest reserve, spanning over 14,650 square kilometres of pristine wilderness. Famous for hosting one of Africa’s largest elephant populations, estimated at over 45,000, the park is home to more than 100 mammal species and over 400 bird species. During the Emerald Green Season, Hwange transforms from dusty savanna into a lush paradise where wildlife enjoy abundance as the seasonal pans fill with water and life!

This is when nature’s nursery opens! Expect babies everywhere – from impala to elephant and countless newborns take their first steps across the landscape. The abundance of water disperses wildlife across the park, creating intimate encounters away from the dry season crowds. Summer storms roll in with dramatic afternoon displays, clearing quickly to reveal spectacular sunsets over endless green horizons.

Your stay at Camp Hwange (or Amalinda’s collection of properties also offering stay pay deal) places you in the heart of this transformation, where luxury and environmental responsibility walk hand in hand.

The impact of your stay: Very high

Your visit supports a comprehensive conservation model that extends far beyond wildlife protection. Solar power fuels most camps, dramatically reducing carbon footprints while maintaining exceptional comfort. Sophisticated waste management systems incorporate recycling and composting, while water conservation techniques from low-flow fixtures to grey water treatment and reuse, ensure minimal environmental impact.

The human impact is equally profound. Your stay provides formal employment opportunities for local communities, often representing their first pathway to supporting extended families. Camps collaborate closely with park authorities to protect endangered species and maintain critical habitats. Education programs bring local schoolchildren into camps for environmental awareness, creating the next generation of conservation champions.

By choosing Hwange during the Emerald Green Season, you’re supporting a holistic conservation approach where wildlife protection, community development, and environmental sustainability create lasting positive change across one of Africa’s most important wilderness areas.

Okavango Delta

The Okavango Delta is one of Africa’s most extraordinary natural phenomena, a vast inland delta that floods not in the rainy season, but during the dry months, fed by waters flowing from Angola’s highlands. UNESCO recognised this ecological miracle as a World Heritage Site, celebrating its status as the world’s largest inland delta system spanning over 15,000 square kilometres. The Delta supports an astonishing diversity of wildlife, including endangered species like African wild dogs, cheetahs, and white and black rhinos.

During the Emerald Green Season, the Okavango reveals a different magic. Summer rains transform the landscape into an explosion of green, with water lilies blooming across channels and wildlife thriving in abundance. This is when the Delta’s birdlife reaches its spectacular peak and over 400 species fill the air with colour and song, including countless migrants and breeding residents. Newborn antelope hide in tall grasses while predators hunt across landscapes flush with life.

Your journey concludes at Karangoma Camp in the remote NG12 concession, operated by Wild Expeditions, pioneers who deliberately work in Africa’s most remote and least-established destinations where conservation impact matters most. This is wilderness travel with profound purpose.

The impact of your stay: Very high

Your presence at Karangoma creates tangible, measurable change in one of the Delta’s most vulnerable communities. The Bukakhwe San people of Gudigwa live alongside wildlife, regularly losing crops to elephants and livestock to lions. Every guest stay directly addresses these challenges while celebrating indigenous knowledge and creating sustainable livelihoods.

Your USD50 per person per night community and conservation levy flows directly to communities adjoining the Delta. This partnership with the Bukakhwe San focuses on revenue sharing, community employment, comprehensive training programs, and hosting eco-clubs that inspire the next generation of conservation leaders.

Karangoma celebrates traditional skills, from the world-renowned tracking abilities of the San people to the appreciation of traditional Bukakhwe instruments and music. Your guides aren’t just showing you wildlife; they’re sharing centuries of accumulated wisdom about living in harmony with nature.

Perhaps most importantly, your stay supports groundbreaking human-wildlife conflict mitigation. Through collaboration with a local conservation NGO, innovative cattle herding techniques and sophisticated early warning systems using satellite-collared lions have dramatically reduced livestock losses. Local farmers on the northern edge of the Okavango now rarely lose cattle to predators, a transformation that makes coexistence possible.

Wild Expeditions operates where they do precisely because viable ecotourism in remote areas creates conservation impact that extends far beyond park boundaries. By choosing Karangoma as your safari finale, you’re not just witnessing the Okavango Delta’s beauty, you’re actively contributing to its future and the communities who are its true guardians.