Hwange National Park

To travel through Hwange National Park today is to see what much of the interior of Africa might have been like more than 150 years ago. This is the famed country that drew men from the diamond fields of Kimberley and the gold mines of Johannesburg.

Hwange National Park is the largest National Park in Zimbabwe, over 14,000 sq.km in extent, and is one of the countries main tourist attractions. The bird list for this huge area is currently over 420 species. There are two main birding areas, the one around Main Camp and the other in the north of the Park around Robins and Sinamatella Rest Camps. Both areas are linked by a network of roads which take visitors through a variety of habitats including many waterholes which attract large numbers of animals as well as birds.

Winters (May to September) are like luscious Mediterranean summers with warm, sunny days and cool, clear nights. There is never any snow, not even in the eastern highlands, but overnight frosts and freezing temperatures are not uncommon anywhere on the plateau.

Most of Zimbabwe's rain falls in brief afternoon deluges during electrical storms in the summer months (October to April) and bring little relief from the humidity.