Elephant Hills Resort Casino

Elephant Hills Resort Casino is the Zimbabwe side's landmark gaming venue, a full-service hotel-casino complex on the banks of the Zambezi River 2 km upstream from Victoria Falls — the 1.7-kilometre-wide, 108-metre-high waterfall that produces the world's largest sheet of falling water and has been one of Africa's premier tourist destinations since David Livingstone became the first European to see it in 1855. The spray from the falls is visible 50 km away on clear days; the roar is audible from the resort; and guests regularly wake to rainbows arcing over the mist that rises from the Batoka Gorge below.

The casino floor within the resort offers roulette, blackjack, baccarat, and slot machines — a compact but properly equipped gaming room that serves both Elephant Hills's own guests and visitors staying in Victoria Falls town's other hotels. The casino is rarely the reason guests come to Victoria Falls (that distinction belongs exclusively to the falls, the river, the gorges, and the wildlife), but it serves as an evening entertainment option for the high-spending international safari and adventure tourism market that the destination commands.

Victoria Falls is the home of some of the world's most adrenaline-charged adventure activities: bungee jumping from the Victoria Falls Bridge (111 metres above the Zambezi), white-water rafting through the Grade-5 rapids of the Batoka Gorge, canopy zip-lining, microlight flights over the falls, and helicopter flips over the spray. Elephant Hills Resort sits at the centre of this adventure economy, and the casino provides a natural wind-down after a day of structured adrenaline on the river.