29/03/2024
I have visited a LOT of camps and lodges in Zimbabwe and I have to say that there is none in this bracket that comes close to beating Fothergill Island for quality.
Quality of service, of food, discreet attention from the staff, every tiny attention to detail - nothing has been forgotten.
From arrival to departure, this has got to be Zimbabwe's 5-star luxury safari experience.
From the manicured lawns to the freshly baked blueberry muffins and the BEST scrambled eggs EVER, to the highly experienced, qualified guides whose tracking skills are almost uncanny - by the way in which they 'read' all the signs in the bush - minute details which the city-slickers have NO idea of until they are pointed out - ie the freshness of a huge lion paw-print in the sand and the length of time it's been there...we tracked a group of 22 lions through the bush for a couple of hours, on foot, sometimes doubling back and each time the guide found the prints again, he took his time to 'read' them - number of animals, size of paw-prints, direction etc...until we came around a patch of scrub and there they were, up ahead of us, resting in the shadows of the mopane...
For a first-time, discerning traveller, perhaps visiting Africa for the first, perhaps for the only time, a once-in-a-lifetime trip to celebrate a big birthday or special occasion, I cannot recommend Fothergill Island highly enough.
Not only is the island steeped in local history surrounding the story of our famous Lake Kariba, and the story of Rupert Fothergill, famous for rescuing so many hundreds, thousands of animals as the lake levels rose after being constructed, but the views, the sunrises, the sunsets, the wildlife, the birdlife, are all experiences which will live on in your minds and memories forever.
Come home, come back - to our Zimbabwe!
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Fothergill Island
SIKILIZA
