The Mosi oa Tunya National Park Game Drive

Meeting Point

Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls National Park

Mosi oa Tunya National Park is home to one half of the Mosi-oa-Tunya 'The Smoke Which Thunders' known worldwide as Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River. The wildlife park includes tall riverine forest with palm trees, woodland and grassland with plenty of birds, and animals including giraffe, zebra, warthog, sable, Cape buffalo, impala and other antelope. Elephants are often seen in the park when they cross the river in the dry season from the Zimbabwean side. Hippopotamus and crocodile can be seen from the river bank. Monkeys and baboons are common as they are in the rest of the national park outside the wildlife section. The Falls section of the national park includes the rainforest on the cliff opposite the Eastern Cataract which is sustained by spray from the falls. It contains plants rare for the area such as pod mahogany, ebony, ivory palm, wild date palm and a number of creepers and lianas. Small antelopes and warthogs inhabit this area, and may also be seen in on the paths through the riverine forest leading to the falls.