We decided to spend a few days in this little known and infrequently visited National Park, and so in the hope of encouraging a few more visitors we decided to lay a couple of caches, this being the first of the two we laid. There are no facilities in the park, that has just two neglected campsites, and so you need to bring everything you need with you, including water. Park fees are payable in order to be able to find the caches (US$10 per person per day for international visitors and US$3 per person per day for locals, plus US$10 per day for a foreign registered vehicle and US$5 per day for a locally registered vehicle). Access from Victoria Falls is straightforward, but be aware in the wet season some of the roads become impassable, consisting of black cotton soil. The two caches are both hidden in abandoned houses.
Sadly the park is surrounded by hunting camps and so we didn’t expect to see too much in the way of wildlife, but although a lot of the animals were understandably very skittish (especially the elephants, eland, zebra, kudu and lions), we left having had good sightings of several mammal species as well as a number of interesting reptiles - elephant, giraffe, eland, buffalo, roan, kudu, zebra, wildebeest, reedbuck, waterbuck, impala, bushbuck, common duiker, steenbok, baboon, slender mongoose, squirrel, lion, serval, black-backed jackal, civet, African wildcat, elephant shrew, mouse, crocodile, monitor lizard, terrapin, mole snake, slow worm, a few lizards and skinks, 134 different species of birds, and at GZ of Kazuma #1 a harmless yellow-bellied sand snake.
The best wildlife viewing was along the Katshetsheti River that is fed by natural springs. At the time of our visit (September 2015) there were plans to install a water pump to supply a waterhole for the wildlife in the open grassland area of the park, and so hopefully by 2016 this will be in place and functioning. We hope you enjoy the park and its wildlife as much as we did!