This small easily accessible national park contains some of the region’s most arresting scenery. It’s known for the Matobo Hills, a range of balancing rock formations created by erosion of the granite plateau. It is a beautiful, but little visited area that’s easily reached by road either from Bulawayo or Hwange National Park. The park is home to a wide range of game, including Africa’s largest concentration of leopard, which is a major attraction in the landscape. Adjoining the main national park is a small, intensively protected game park containing Zimbabwe’s highest concentration of black and white rhino. The rhinos, an endangered species, can reliably be tracked on foot in Matobo National park. Other game in the park include; bushbuck, impala, zebra, kudu, giraffe, baboon, monkeys and rock hyrax. There are over 400 bird species recorded in Matobo including, black eagles, fish eagle, martial eagle, francolin, secretary bird, weavers, pied crow and Egyptian geese.
