This is unquestionably a one-of-a-kind tour that should not be missed. Our journey will begin in Livingstone, Zambia. Over the following two days, we will travel towards the lower Zambezi and Lake Kariba while absorbing the local culture and traditions. We'll spend the following three days on the banks of the Zambezi before heading to Lake Kariba for the next two days.

The name Kariba (Kariva - meaning trap) alludes to a boulder that protruded from the whirling water at the entrance to the canyon near the Kariba dam wall location and is now submerged more than a hundred feet below the water level. In several traditions, this rock was the abode of the mighty River God Nyaminyami, who pulled anybody who came too close into the river's depths for all eternity.

When the valley people learned that they would be relocated from their tribal territories and the mighty Zambezi River would be stopped, they believed the river deity would become enraged and force the water to boil and demolish the white man's bridge with floods.

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A year after the Kariba dam was completed, the river swelled to flood level, damaging some equipment and the access roads. The odds of another flood occurring the next year were nearly a thousand to one, yet flood it did, three meters higher than the previous year. This time demolishing the access bridge, the coffer dam, and sections of the main wall. “Nyaminyami” had made good on his threat. He had reclaimed the gorge. His floods flowed over the ruins of his adversaries at more than sixteen million liters per second, a deluge that had been projected to occur only once every ten thousand years.

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Although man eventually triumphed when the dam was completed, the dam was finally opened in 1960, this being the world’s largest artificial lake and reservoir by volume. Lake Kariba is also home to the fierce tiger fish, renowned among avid anglers, while herds of wildlife wander its shores.