Zimbabwe

The highest mountains in Zimbabwe and the climax of the Eastern Highlands, the Chimanimani range reaches 2,592 metres at Mount Nyangani and protects unique Afro-montane ecosystems, endemic flora, and one of the most dramatic mountain landscapes in southern Africa.

The ruins of an 11th-to-15th-century Bantu empire capital covering 730 hectares in southeastern Zimbabwe, Great Zimbabwe is the largest stone architecture south of the Egyptian pyramids and the namesake of the modern nation.

At 14,651 km², Hwange is Zimbabwe's largest national park and one of Africa's finest wildlife reserves, famous for its enormous elephant herds and its role as the core of the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area.

A 2,196 km² floodplain reserve along the lower Zambezi River in northern Zimbabwe, Mana Pools is a UNESCO World Heritage Site famous for its concentrations of elephant, hippo, and crocodile, and as one of Africa's premier walking safari destinations.

A range of rounded granite domes and tors in southern Zimbabwe containing more than 3,000 prehistoric rock art sites, the Matobo Hills were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003 for both their outstanding rock art and their natural values.

A 1.7-kilometre curtain of falling water on the Zambezi River, Victoria Falls forms the world's largest sheet of falling water and one of the seven natural wonders of the world, shared between Zimbabwe and Zambia.