Top 7 Houseboats on Lake Kariba for a Group Getaway
As the light turns copper over Lake Kariba, the generator falls silent. On most houseboats, that happens between about 10pm and 11pm, under lake regulations, and what remains is the hush of the water, the occasional grunt of a hippo and, if you’re lucky, lions calling somewhere along the shore.
This is the daily rhythm of a houseboat holiday on Lake Kariba, the vast reservoir on the Zambezi River that straddles the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia. The lake stretches roughly 281km (175 miles) and is about 40km (25 miles) across at its widest, its surface studded with islands and drowned trees, with the Matusadona mountains rising behind.