A United States luxury lifestyle magazine which placed Zimbabwe at number four out of the 21 safari destinations in the world for 2017 it selected has placed the Southern African country at second spot among the seven ultimate adventure spots for this year.
The Robb Report has the same write-up it had for the safari destinations but moves Zimbabwe ahead of Cuba.
The other spots are Peru at number 1, Cuba at 3 followed by Tanzania, Utah, Maldives and Nepal.
The write up on Zimbabwe says:
There’s an official motto in Zimbabwe that says, “Everything that flies has to land.” The adage seems particularly fitting these days, as the southern African country—which for years has been plagued by political repression, economic hardship, and rampant poaching—is at last making a return to the safari circuit.
“We are seeing tourism that we just didn’t see 4 or 5 years ago,” says Henrietta Loyd, founder and co-owner of the UK-based travel company Cazenove + Loyd .
The influx is due in part to new antipoaching efforts, which have resulted in the return of wildlife and, with it, Zimbabwe’s world-renowned safari guides.
“There is also more investment coming back to the country,” Loyd says, citing new and renovated lodges—among them camps from Singita, andBeyond, and Wilderness Safaris—as well as infrastructure improvements like the recently opened international terminal at Victoria Falls Airport.
Indeed, one of Africa’s original safari destinations is finally coming in for a landing—and tempting a new generation of travelers to do the same.
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