Nestled peacefully on a personal 15km stretch of the breathtaking Zambezi river, Matetsi Victoria Falls is a luxurious, family-owned and independently run safari lodge that sits inside its personal 136,000-acre wilderness and contains of 16 suites, 2 household suites and a personal villa.
Having been welcomed by the incomparably heat staff of hosts – and after an unimaginable lunch unfold on the banks of the Zambezi with nothing however the completely nonetheless outlook and a really cheeky monkey (precise monkey) eyeing up dropped crumbs for firm – we made our giddy option to the suite to clean up.
Elsa Younger
As a 32-year-old lady (and somebody’s precise mom) who tragically nonetheless squeals on the sight of a spider and is perpetually afraid of intruders, staying in the midst of the wilderness wasn’t one thing I noticed on my life’s bingo card. I additionally, nonetheless, despise overdone, over-fussy interiors that prioritise tendencies over authenticity and really feel as if you can be anyplace.
Fortunately for me, Matetsi has by some means discovered that elusive stability of complete, understated luxurious that’s solely built-in inside its surrounds, with a recent, distinctly African inside and refreshingly little technological faff.
Elsa Younger
Having freshened up – and brought a modest 400,000 images of our suite’s pool gently resting on the banks of the Zambezi – we had been greeted by our personal non-public safari rangers, Lance and Willard, who had been limitlessly knowledgable and who had been about about to turn out to be two of our favorite individuals on the planet.
They requested us what number of recreation drives we might wish to go on per day (we mentioned as many as doable, deciding a relaxed afternoon by the pool may wait for one more vacation), if a 5am wake-up name sounded doable (sure!) and what our espresso orders had been for mentioned wake-up calls (something with an additional shot, having dedicated to the earlier request).
After which we had been off.
