The Matobo National Park forms the core of the Matobo or Matopos Hills, an area of granite kopjes and wooded valleys commencing some 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Bulawayo, southern Zimbabwe. The hills were formed over 2 billion years ago with granite being forced to the surface; it has eroded to produce smooth "whaleback dwalas" and broken ...

Matobo National Park lies in southwest Zimbabwe covering an area of about 424 square kilometers. It’s known for the Matobo Hills, a range of balancing rock formations created by erosion of the granite plateau.

This Zimbabwean odyssey explores Hwange National Park from two small camps, renowned for their great guiding, before ending with insights into cultural history, a little luxury and first-class rhino tracking in the Matobo Hills.

Matobo National Park in Zimbabwe is just more than a top tourist destination; it’s a place of cultural history told by natural beauty. Formed a little over two billion years ago south of Zimbabwe’s second-largest city Bulawayo, granite Kopjes, tree-clad valleys, granite domes and a sea of hills dot the park.

Matobo National Park protects a breathtaking landscape of bald granite outcrops and gravity-defying balancing rocks. A scenic highlight is World’s View, a commanding granite whaleback topped by Cecil John Rhodes’ tomb. Often referred to as Matopos, the park hosts an abundance of prehistoric rock art, and while wildlife viewing is slow, it ...

Matobo National Park is in Matabeleland of Zimbabwe. Just south of Bulawayo, this is a small but important national park famous for its balancing rocks, naturally carved rocks that seems to defy gravity. Matobo is also the final resting place for several white settlers including the perhaps greatest British imperialist of them all, Cecil Rhodes.

The Matobo National Park is situated within the sprawling Matobo Hills, a range of granite domes and balancing rock formations which have undergone millions of years of erosion and weathering leaving an imposing rugged terrain dominated by huge granite whaleback mountains and where the diversity of the vegetation including mopane, acacia ...

5 天之前 · マトボ国立公園（Matobo National Park）は、ジンバブエ南部に広がる自然と文化が融合した国立公園。ユネスコ世界遺産に登録され、花崗岩の奇岩群や数千年前の岩絵が残る歴史的な場所としても有名です。この記事では、豊かな生態系を持ち、シロサイやクロサイの保護区としても注目を集めて ...

Matobo National Park offers an incredible range of family safari experiences. Renowned as the best place in Zimbabwe to track black and white rhinos, the park’s guided walking safaris allow families to encounter these magnificent animals up close, benefiting from …

Established in 1926 as Rhodes Matopos National Park, the park is the oldest in Zimbabwe and was a bequest from Cecil John Rhodes. The park extends along the Thuli, Mtshelele, Maleme and Mpopoma river valleys. The Matobo Hills were designated as a …