CHILO GORGE LODGE

CHILO GORGE IS A LUXURY SAFARI LODGE ON THE EDGE OF GONAREZHOU: A NATIONAL PARK PRESERVED IN PRISTINE WILDERNESS

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Email: sales@chilogorge.com

https://chilogorge.com/

 

River Lodges of Africa (Private) Limited

t/a Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge

Mahenye Ward

P Bag 7013

  • THE LODGE

    The Chilo safari experience combines spacious luxury in one of Southern Africa’s last truly remote wilderness areas with the unmatched Zimbabwean guiding knowledge, care, warmth and hospitality. Our safari lodge is spacious with vast views offering you a haven from the heat of the day, a place to rest and recoup, and to prepare for your next Gonarezhou safari adventure. You will feel like home when the Chilo family welcomes you and the expansive viewing deck will be your place to go to watch elephants, hippos and crocodiles cooling off in the waters of the river amongst abundant vegetation.

     

    The main lodge is surrounded by beautifully tended indigenous gardens cared for by Enock, our Head Gardener. Relax in the shaded swimming pool or sit on one of the wooden benches dotted around the garden marvelling at the majestic view of the Save River.

  • SAFARI

    This is a country of red sandstone, thorny scrub, baobabs and animals in their most natural state at Gonarezhou. Buffalo gather at watering holes, big cats prowl silently in pursuit of painted impala, and hippo bathe midstream attended by squadrons of fluttering birds.

     

    The presence of elephants is everywhere; as their families travel along routes passed from one matriarch to another in search of food, safety, and water. A panorama of birdlife gathers at Tembawahata and Machanu Water Pans, creating a kaleidoscope of colour, while the wonders of Chilojo Cliffs and Chivilila Falls reveal the glories of the unique landscape.

  • OUR STORY

    Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge was founded with the sole purpose of providing opportunities through photographic tourism for the community of Mahenye following the creation of Gonarezhou National Park in 1975. The founder, Clive Stockil, is to this day involved in community work and partnerships in this area and other areas of the Save Valley and Zimbabwean Lowveld.