Qualla: Hwange National Park https://qualla.com/hwange-national-park en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/k/s/e/j/hwange-national-park-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Hwange National Park https://qualla.com/hwange-national-park Hwange National Park: Introduction https://qualla.com/hwange-national-park/ Photo credit Babakathy, CC0. In the dry season, everything comes to the water. Elephants shoulder through dust clouds to reach the pumped pans, lions wait in the scrub nearby, and painted dogs trot in precise formation along trails worn smooth by a century of hooves. Hwange National Park covers 14,651 square kilometres of northwestern Zimbabwe -- an area roughly the size of Northern Ireland -- and for much of the year its survival depends on an unlikely lifeline: diesel-powered pumps that push groundwater to the surface. Without them, the great herds would simply leave. With them, Hwange becomes one of the continent's great wildlife theaters, where the simple act of drinking water is never without an audience.

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/s/e/j/hwange-national-park-wk/ksej-hwange-national-park-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Hwange National Park: An Arid Stage, Engineered for Life https://qualla.com/hwange-national-park/ Photo credit Fabio Achilli from Milano, Italy, CC BY 2.0. The land beneath Hwange is Kalahari sand, porous and unforgiving. Rainfall is seasonal and unreliable, arriving between late November and April before vanishing for months. The park was established as a game reserve in 1928 and became a national park in 1961, but its managers und...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/s/e/j/hwange-national-park-wk/ksej-hwange-national-park-an-arid-stage-engineered-for-life.mp3 0:06 2 full Hwange National Park: The Gathering at the Pans https://qualla.com/hwange-national-park/ Photo credit Babakathy, CC0. More than a hundred mammal species and four hundred bird species call Hwange home. Nineteen large herbivore species share the landscape with eight large carnivores, including lions, leopards, cheetahs, spotted and brown hyenas, and African wild dogs -- one of the continent's most...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/s/e/j/hwange-national-park-wk/ksej-hwange-national-park-the-gathering-at-the-pans.mp3 0:06 3 full Hwange National Park: Shadows Over the Savannah https://qualla.com/hwange-national-park/ Photo credit BigSugarDaddy, CC BY-SA 4.0. Hwange's wildlife has drawn not only researchers and tourists but also poachers, and the park's history carries scars. In 2011, poachers killed nine elephants, five lions, and two buffalo. In 2013, more than a hundred elephants died at a single waterhole after poachers laced it w...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/s/e/j/hwange-national-park-wk/ksej-hwange-national-park-shadows-over-the-savannah.mp3 0:06 4 full Hwange National Park: Arriving on the Elephant Express https://qualla.com/hwange-national-park/ Photo credit Fabio Achilli from Milano, Italy, CC BY 2.0. Getting to Hwange is itself an adventure. The nearest commercial airport is at Victoria Falls, and from there the journey continues by road. But the most memorable approach may be aboard the Elephant Express, a single-car sightseeing train that seats 22 passengers and makes a two...

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