Victoria Falls Private Guided Tour: Both Zimbabwe & Zambia Sides

Explore both the Zimbabwean and Zambian sides of Victoria Falls on a private guided tour with hotel pickup and flexible pacing.

Getting started

Your private guided tour begins with hotel pickup within Victoria Falls town. After meeting your professional local guide, you travel to the entrance for Victoria Falls National Park, where you handle your own park fees before entering. Once inside, the guide outlines the plan to see viewpoints, the rainforest, and the cross-border section, subject to border and entry requirements.

What to expect

Victoria Falls, Zimbabwean side

You start on the Zimbabwean side of Victoria Falls, where a network of paths leads to multiple viewpoints and the surrounding rainforest. This section provides some of the most comprehensive panoramic perspectives of the waterfall.

Features

• Guided exploration of the Zimbabwean side of Victoria Falls gives you wide-angle views of the Falls and the Zambezi River from a series of viewpoints along the edge.
• A guided walk through the Victoria Falls rainforest takes you along damp, lush paths where the spray from the Falls supports thick vegetation and shifting light conditions.
• Your professional local guide shares local insights into Victoria Falls, explaining how the Falls shape the river, the surrounding area, and the wildlife that lives nearby.
• The pace here is flexible and slow, with time set aside for photographs at different viewpoints so you can capture the changing cascades and mist.

Victoria Falls, Zambian side

Next, you cross to the Zambian side of Victoria Falls, subject to visa and border-entry requirements. This area offers closer, more side-on perspectives of individual sections of the waterfall and the gorge.

Features

• Guided exploration of the Zambian side of Victoria Falls focuses on different angles of the Falls and the Zambezi River, so you can compare how each country's viewpoints frame the same natural feature.
• Your guide continues to provide local insights into the Zambezi River, adding context on regional history and wildlife as you move between lookouts.
• The experience remains private and unhurried, giving you further time for photographs and to pause at viewpoints that interest you most.

Victoria Falls Bridge

Towards the cross-border section of your route, you visit the historic Victoria Falls Bridge, which spans the gorge between Zimbabwe and Zambia. This is where you can literally stand between the two countries with the river below.

Features

• A guided visit to Victoria Falls Bridge lets you walk along this historic crossing and look down into the gorge carved by the Zambezi River.
• Your local guide points out how the bridge links the Zimbabwean and Zambian sides of Victoria Falls and shares stories about the surrounding area's past and present.
• At the end of your bridge visit, hotel drop-off within Victoria Falls ensures a straightforward return, keeping logistics simple after your slow-paced day of viewpoints and sightseeing.
• Optional activities such as bungee jumping, ziplining, or helicopter flights are available in the area but are not included in this private guided tour.