subject: Explore Lake Kariba Safari Holiday -Zimbabwe [print this page] Explore Lake Kariba Safari Holiday -Zimbabwe
Kariba is a unique and a place of outstanding beauty, a great inland sea, nested in mountains, guarded by enormous reserves of game and made beautiful and savage by sun and storm, earth and water and by life and death. Lake Kariba is really the "middle section" of the three well known parts of the Zambezi river: between the upper Zambezi above Lake Kariba including Victoria Falls, and the lower Zambezi from below the Kariba dam wall downwards. By volume, Lake Kariba is the largest artificial lake and reservoir in the world. It is located on the Zambezi river, about halfway between the river's source and mouth, about 1300 kilometers upstream from the Indian Ocean, and lies along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Lake Kariba is over 220 kilometers long and up to 40 kilometers in width. It covers an area of 5,580 square kilometers and its storage capacity is an immense 185 cubic kilometers. The mean depth of the lake is 29 meters; the maximum depth is 97 meters. It is one of the world's largest human-made reservoirs.
A house boat holiday is a great way to spend a few days under the sun, and the best time to plan it is over a full moon. The twilight atmosphere between sunset and full moon rise on this lake is quite magical.Sport fishing is good and the major lodges, Lake Kariba Inns and Lake Safari lodge offer boats and tackle. Further down the lake shore at Sinazongwe, the annual Tiger Fishing Competition attracts anglers from all over the subcontinent and is held in May.
If you have your own boat, the lake is a superb playground for all kinds of water sports. The bigger lodges have many boats to hire if you don't.
A trip on a house boat is highly suggested. The silence of watching the deep orange sun sink on the one side of the lake and the moon rise over the gleaming waters on the other is very special.
All year round, but it is very hot during summer season (September to February). The ideal time is April to August unless you wish to tiger fish than September or October is best.
If you want to visit that beautiful place at any time of the year Lake Kariba offers entertainment, relaxation, sport and adventure. There is something at Kariba for everybody and all of it unforgettable. The major airlines operating for Zimbabwe is Air Zimbabwe, Kenya Airways and Ethiopian Airways. The Air Zimbabwe is the only direct flights to Zimbabwe. You can book your cheap flights to Harare, Zimbabwe at reasonable price with flightsmaster.co.uk.
