A great experience for the white water rafting addicts, the chance to overnight or spend multiple days in the gorge exploring the Zambezi camping overnight on sandy beaches.

When the river slows you get to do some fishing (No equipment is supplied, bring your own) or relax and watch the wildlife

SET DEPARTURE DATES ARE AS FOLLOWS:

9 & 23 September
7 & 21 October
4 & 18 November
2 & 16 December

RAFT – CAMPING TRIPS AVAILABLE

FULL DAY / OVERNIGHT:

Day ONE: Full day of rafting as per the usual one day low water rafting trip ending just above rapid no 23. You will overnight at our campsite situated on the banks of the river. You will be supplied with tents, bedrolls and sleeping bags from Adventure Zone. It is recommended to bring your own sleeping bags, if required. This evening you will enjoy a delicious dinner under the big African night sky warmed by a big bonfire. We will supply beers (Castle), red and white wine. Should you wish to have other alcoholic beverages they can be purchased by yourself prior to the start of the trip and will bring them into the camp nightly.

Day TWO: After enjoying a full English breakfast, you walk out of the gorge, which is a strenuous climb of the equivalent to climbing a 70 storey building, at the top a vehicle will be waiting to transfer you back to town. The drive back from the gorge is approximately 25kms. You will return to town by around 10h00

2.5 DAY TRIP:

(The camp sites may change due to movement of beaches/camp sites):

DAY ONE: Full day of rafting as usual one day low water rafting trip and camping below rapid 23, at our overnight camp.

DAY TWO: From hereafter the flat stretches between rapids becomes longer. Your first rapid is ‘Open Season’. You then continue through ‘The Narrows’ after which you will have lunch. After lunch you head on down the river through rapids ‘Chimamba’ and “Upper Mowemba”, then portage around the spectacular grade 6 rapid “Lower Mowemba” to our overnight campsite just below but with a short climb allowing an awesome view of the “Lower Mowemba” rapid.

DAY THREE: After enjoying a full English breakfast, you continue along to the Dam site where you are met by our porters to guide you to the vehicle at the top of the gorge. Once all the equipment is up, you board the vehicle and head for home. The drive back to town is 62km, with the first 12km being very slow, thereafter it is a secondary road all the way home and will take about 2 hours maximum.

If you need to arrive back in town earlier, we can change the overnight stop to be at the Dam site at top of the gorge overlooking the “Ghost Rider” rapids. After breakfast, you would then board the vehicle and will go directly back to town.

3 DAY TRIP:

(The camp sites may change due to movement of beaches/camp sites):

DAY ONE: Full day of rafting as usual one day low water rafting trip and camping below rapid 23, at our overnight camp.

DAY TWO: From hereafter the flat stretches between rapids becomes longer. Your first rapid is ‘Open Season’. You then continue rafting through ‘The Narrows’ after which you have lunch. After lunch you head on down the river through ‘Chimamba’ and “Upper Mowemba”, you then arrive at your second portage of the trip where we all carry our rafts around this spectacular “Lower Mowemba” waterfall which is clearly a grade 6 rapid. After the portage it is a very short paddle around the corner to the ‘Ampitheatre’ where we camp on the beaches in this awesome setting.

DAY THREE: After enjoying a full English breakfast, you continue rafting, this section is mainly very flat with one small rapid at the entry to the portage stopping point just above “the Dam site rapids”. We then portage “The Dam Site rapids” and get back into our rafts to continue on the flat water to our final rapid of the day being “Ghost Rider”. Here we stop and scout the rapid before running it, this rapid is truly the best rapid to finish your trip with as it is the largest set of waves on the Zambezi river. After rafting through this rapid, everyone stops on the right hand side of the river where 2 alternatives are on offer (and needs to be pre-booked accordingly):

1. You can walk out of the Gorge, it is not a hard climb but it is a relatively long walk, at the top of the gorge the truck will be waiting with beers and soft drinks to welcome you. Again drinks are limited. Once all the equipment is up, we board the vehicle and head for home. The drive back to town is 62km, with the first 12km being very slow, thereafter it is a secondary road all the way home finishing off with the last 13km of tar and will take about 3 hours maximum.

2. You can fly by helicopter, out of the gorge over the Falls and back to Victoria Falls town. In this scenario, you relax while drinks and snacks are served whilst waiting for the helicopter to arrive. When it arrives, you are required to climb on immediately and will then go on to enjoy a flight over the gorges and finally over the Victoria Falls before landing at the Heli pad in Vic Falls.

You are then transferred back to The Adventure Zone offices to collect their valuables and any other items left behind, before going on to your hotels. Those choosing the Helicopter option will only receive their bags from the trip later that evening as they will come back by road on our vehicle.