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Connecting people and nature through unique experiences in Hwange 🐘🇿🇼. If you’ve never been to Zimbabwe before, you’re in for a treat.

Bomani Tented Lodge | Camelthorn Lodge | Nehimba Lodge | Jozibanini Camp | Tum Tum Treehouse Lodge After all, it’s one of the most beautiful, enigmatic, diverse and friendly countries in Africa. At Imvelo, we aren’t just about luxury lodges and there’s more to us than spectacular photographic safaris - we believe in enriching the lives of those who live around us as well as our guests. We are dete

rmined to ensure that it’s the local people and wildlife that directly benefit from our visitors. We offer our guests an honest eco tourism experience. Many of our lodges are built on land that belongs to local village communities. This enables us to develop from the grassroots up and employ from the surrounding areas. We now employ over 100 local people on a permanent or semi-regular basis. We work closely with village leaders, distributing resources to where they are needed most. We encourage them to link benefits from tourism to wildlife conservation. Our aim is to empower indigenous populations and teach them self-sustaining methods of survival. Our lodges are part of Zimbabwe’s CAMPFIRE initiative. This natural resource management project looks at local community involvement in tourism and wildlife conservation. CAMPFIRE is the acronym for Communal Area Management Program for Indigenous Resources. The philosophy underlying the project is quite a simple one: the people living within the natural resources are best placed to manage them. And for doing so, they should benefit directly. To learn more about our Hwange properties and our experiential safari circuit or our extensive conservation and community initiatives visit our website www.imvelosafarilodges.com or www.imvelosafarilodges.com/hwange-needs-you.html

14/07/2026

School meal supplies to 17 schools!

Over 20 tonnes of dry food supplies were delivered to over 3,500 children at 17 different rural schools in time for term 2 starting at the middle of May! This is providing 247,000 meals just for term 2, helping motivate children to attend school and helping them concentrate after long walks.

03/06/2026

Mtshayeli Secondary expands!

Three years ago Mtshayeli Primary school expanded to accommodate secondary school children in the area. Mtshayeli Secondary School welcomed its first group of students in 2024, with no classsrooms, and initally, no headmaster...just some motivation. For the last two years, students have been learning outside, under trees, trying to concentrate. Thanks to our friends in Australia, we have finally been able to put up two large marquees to accommodate these secondary school students in a safer and more appropriate learning environment.

The six teachers, the headmistress and the learners are excited to be going back to school for term 2. While we keep working towards
supporting the school with more permanent infrastructure and resources, this is significant progress.

MiracleMission

25/05/2026

Join us in celebrating the continent's rich diversity, its fascinating people and its incredible biodiversity.

24/05/2026

Two special species, one unbelievable scene. White rhinos throwing their weight around, and African wild dogs running on pure instinct.

You don’t witness this every day - nature’s raw elegance, caught on camera.

22/05/2026

Four years ago, two white rhinos were relocated from a private reserve in southern Zimbabwe onto communal lands south of Hwange National Park. Since their arrival, Thuza and Kusasa have been the stars of Ngamo, providing guests from all over the world with unforgettable experiences and benefiting local communities in numerous ways.

Following on from the initial relocation, our Community Rhino Conservation Initiative has expanded. Thuza and Kusasa have two more white rhino neighbours and we have another 2,800 hectares of community land allocated for rhino conservation. Fifty-seven scouts (including three women) are employed, as well as another 20 habitat management and fencing workers. Our guest visits generate monthly revenue for local communities which they spend on local development projects. Needless to say, Thuza and Kusasa have had quite an impact since their arrival!

Thank you for being part of our journey! More information at www.hwangecommunityrhino.com and
https://www.hwangecommunityrhino.com/post/four-year-anniversary

15/05/2026

The latest addition to the Imvelo Safari Lodges’ portfolio, Tum Tum Treehouse Lodge continues the brand’s legacy of blending adventure, community, and conservation in one seamless experience. Set among teak and camelthorn woodlands in south-eastern Hwange, the lodge offers an immersive stay in nature. Four elevated treetop tents—positioned 12 to 16 feet above the ground—are complemented by a spacious family tent accommodating up to six guests. Crafted from natural wood and canvas, with expansive glass sliding doors, each suite offers uninterrupted views of the surrounding wilderness.

The elevated design delivers both privacy and perspective, placing guests at the heart of the ecosystem while offering a sense of calm and seclusion. Elephants and other animals pass quietly below the rooms, creating an intimate and unforgettable connection with nature. The wildlife is drawn to the camelthorn pods from the camelthorn trees that anchor the elevated treehouse structures.

Tum Tum represents a bold new chapter for Imvelo and a fresh way to experience Hwange’s rich biodiversity—one that encourages guests to slow down and fully embrace the rhythm of the wild.

22/03/2026

Happy World Water Day!

Whilst this past rainy season has been much more intense than usual, the Hwange bush looking as green and lush as ever, water is still top of our agenda. As with every year, the rains come to an end and the dry season progresses and seasonal pans created by the rainy season dry out. Given the area's limited surface water, these dry months can be very difficult for both people and wildlife.

We pump water...
• For domestic use
• For livestock
• For irrigation
• For wildlife

Providing improved water access allows more time for other activities, including attending school (for younger girls who help their mothers fetch water) and growing food.

Despite having drilled over 90 wells in villages and repairing over 60 existing wells annually, ...and despite pumping over 800 million of litres of water for wildlife across 26 wildlife pumps every year...water remains a priority.

Thank you to all of you who support our pumping water efforts - here's to celebrating water and the life it brings.

See how our work pumping water is linked to the Community Rhino Initiative here: https://www.hwangecommunityrhino.com/waterforpeople

Visit Hwange during the green season, to see how rainfall transforms the area. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1524863755223250

14/03/2026

“For those contemplating a Green Season safari, rest assured that the sightings will still be incredible. We recently spent two weeks in Hwange with and had a brilliant time. Elephant, giraffe, hippo, zebra, wildebeest, roan, sable, kudu, impala, steenbok, duiker, warthog, lion, jackal, and an exceptionally rare sighting of Gemsbok! Plus over 150 bird species.”

16/02/2026

Dwarf Bittern paradise!

Hwange is receiving record rainfall this green season. The water has flooded large portions of the grasslands of southern Hwange with shallow sheets of water, which in turn has created an eruption of amphibians breeding frantically to take advantage of conditions ideal for them. Literally, millions of tadpoles. For the intra-African migrants that follow these weather events, they have a food windfall.

Meet our littlest heron - the Dwarf Bittern (25–30 cm). Currently visiting us in large numbers, paired off and nesting in thorny, dense young leadwoods surrounded by water, their nests protected from predators and surrounded by a bounty of young amphibians. They often target drying puddles, where tadpoles become concentrated. But are also perfectly at home stalking the flooded grasslands for tadpoles and small frogs, and also opportunistically take on arthropods like dragon flies .

Address

68 Townsend Road, Suburbs
Bulawayo

Telephone

+263292232331

Website

http://www.imvelosafarilodges.com/

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