Victoria Falls Itinerary







  • A day in the life of a Victoria Falls volunteer…
    • 6:30am You will be collected by your coordinator and driven out to the lion project base at Masuwe. This is a 10 minute drive.
    • 6:30 – 9:00am Meet your guide and their clients and join them for a lion walk, taking cubs from 4 months to 18 months out into the bush. Watch and take data capture recordings as the cubs practice their hunting skills.
    • 9:00am – 10:00am Breakfast
    • 10.00am – One group might head off to nearby Chamabondo school to begin the day’s Conservation Education classes – sometimes there are up to 60 kids in a class! Chaotic but fun!
    • 10:30am- 12:30pm Spend time out in the bush with the cubs and participate in data capture; essential observation work on the cubs behaviour, and behavioural enrichment activities with the cubs
    • 12:30pm – 2:30pm Lunch
    • 2.30pm – 5:00pm Your afternoon duties could include a snare sweep with professional National Parks scouts in the Zambezi National Park; collating game scouts reports; observations and recording of elephants behaviour for Parks’ records; large carnivore research activities
    • 6.45pm - Briefing by your volunteer coordinator about the following days activities Evening – The volunteers socialise at dinner at 7.00pm at cozy Hunters Lodge. On some nights volunteers venture off into Victoria Falls town to experience the night life of this tourist mecca

Volunteer Projects