Days at Khami, and beyond.
Your guide and vehicle are yours for the stay, so the day can run around a sighting, a swim, or nothing at all.
Walk. Fish. Paddle. Explore.
Giraffe, plains game and the daily tracks and sounds of a working private reserve are all part of being at Khami. No shared game drives, no set circuit: just your group and 6,500 acres.
We will put forward a plan for each day. What you do with it is yours to decide.
- 01
Walk with the scouts
Out on foot across the reserve with the people who know it, at the pace your group sets.
- 02
Fish a dam
Nine dams across the reserve, still water and reflected light, and an afternoon with a line in.
- 03
Canoe at dawn
A canoe out on the water first thing, before the day warms up.
- 04
Game drives with your guide
The same guide and vehicle for the whole stay, working around what your group wants to see.
- 05
Swim
An afternoon swim in the dam, or the pool set straight into the granite at the lodge.
- 06
Watch the trail cameras
Trail cameras across the reserve pick up what's moving through, day and night, long after the vehicle is parked.
On foot, with the people who know the land.
Walk with the scouts. The reserve is part of the stay, not an excursion bolted onto it, and the pace is the one your group sets.
Or nothing at all.
Sit by the pool. Watch the light change over the water. Your guide and vehicle are yours for the stay, so the day can run around a sighting, a swim, or nothing at all.
Dinner by the fire.
Meals are cooked for your group alone and served when you are ready for them: around the dining table, on a deck, or by the fire, depending on the evening.
History on the doorstep.
Head into the city, the Khami Ruins or the Matobo Hills, and come back to your own gate. Your guide and vehicle go with you.
01, Half a dayKhami Ruins
A UNESCO World Heritage landscape of stone terraces and walled courtyards, a short drive from the reserve gate.
02, A full dayThe Matobo Hills
Rock art, balancing granite and the graves of Cecil Rhodes and Mzilikazi: an easy full day out from the lodge.
03, Minutes awayBulawayo
15 minutes from the gate. Head into the city and come back to your own gate.
Five centuries of dry-stone walls.
Khami Ruins was once the capital of the Torwa state, its dry-stone terraces and decorated walls dating back over five centuries. It sits close enough to the lodge to explore in half a day, then return to the quiet of the reserve.
From an old published account of the search for Lobengula's treasure.
The search for Lobengula's treasure.
Local legend holds that King Lobengula, the last Ndebele king, hid his treasure somewhere in this region as his kingdom fell in 1893, and that it has never been found.
Whatever the truth of it, the story is still told around Bulawayo, and it is part of the same landscape Khami sits in.
Three days at Khami.
One way it might run. Every stay is shaped around your group, so treat this as a starting point rather than a timetable.
- Day 01
Arrive and settle in
Collected from Bulawayo, 15 minutes from the gate. An afternoon swim, a walk with the scouts, then dinner by the fire, cooked for your group alone.
- Day 02
The reserve, at your pace
A canoe out at dawn. A game drive with your guide, or a morning fishing a dam. Back for lunch on the deck, and the pool in the heat of the day.
- Day 03
Out, and back to your own gate
Half a day at the Khami Ruins, or a full day in the Matobo Hills with your guide and vehicle. Return to the quiet of the reserve for a last evening.
Build Khami into a bigger Zimbabwe journey.
Khami works naturally with Matobo, Hwange and Victoria Falls: a quiet private beginning or end to a wider trip. Close enough to Bulawayo to arrive easily, and placed well for the rest of western Zimbabwe once you are ready to move on.
Our sister property, Matobo Hills Lodge, sits among the granite of the Matobo Hills. Our family tour operator, ZimTravellers, can plan the whole route with one private start.
Tell us when, and who is coming.
Send the dates, group size and the kind of stay you have in mind. We can shape the rest around you.