The Big Tree Travel Guide: Top Sights in Zimbabwe, Tours & Travel

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The Big Tree- Travel Tips What to See, How to Plan & Tours: Historical & Cultural; Zimbabwe; 5 Reviews

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The Big Tree is a massive baobab (Adansonia digitata) located near Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. With a girth of 22.4 meters (~73 feet) and a height of 24 meters (~79 feet), it stands as one of the largest baobabs in the world. Thought to be around 2,000 years old, the tree's age is debated due to its unusual structure, which may consist of multiple trunks. While sometimes called Livingstone's Tree, the explorer carved his name into a different baobab on Garden Island. The Big Tree is protected by Zimbabwe's National Museums and Monuments, and efforts have been made to preserve it from vandalism.

Operators offering tours in Zimbabwe

Attractions in Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls National Park

Wild Horizons Elephant Sanctuary

Victoria Falls Bridge

4.6

Victoria Falls Snake Park

4.8

Reviews of The Big Tree

Richard Noack

5
Reviewed: 2025-02-02

🌳 A TREE-MENDOUS EXPERIENCE! 🌳 Visiting the Big Baobab Tree in Victoria Falls is truly unbeleafable! This living legend has stood the test of time, deeply rooted in history and wonder for over 1000 years. You'll view your life as pre-TBT and post-TBT (The Big Tree) when you come here. Standing beneath its sprawling branches, you can’t help but feel a profound connection to nature If you haven’t been, you’re barking up the wrong bucket list! 10/10 baobabsolutely breathtaking. tree you again soon!
Marietjie Merifield

5
Reviewed: 2024-10-31

We booked a Segway tour for our family of 5 on our vacation to the Victoria Falls. This was one of our stops. The Big Tree is magnificent to view with the eye. We had amazing tour guides & was also able to stop and look at the Curio gift stalls across the road from the Big Tree. A must see!
Dru P

3
Reviewed: 2024-01-20

Amazing how long baobab trees can live. It is easily the biggest I have ever seen..
Clement Katulushi

5
Reviewed: 2024-01-02

This is the equivalent of those sequoia trees in the US. It is just one ginormous tree, several hundreds of years old. It is a Mubuyu or baobab tree. Currently it is fenced off by ZimParks and rightly so because curious onlookers have tended in the past to etch their names on the tree. There were no elephants in sight that day but this tree is within the national park so wild animals are expected. There is another massive tree of similar repute in Livingstone, Zambia. It is also a mubuyu 🌳 tree. It is known as the Look-out tree. It is also a very big tree. A coincidence?
Marsha Russell

5
Reviewed: 2022-11-20

Since we don’t have baobabs in the US, this was my first ever baobab, and it was a magnificent experience. The bark, looking like elephant skin, suggests the extreme age of the mighty tree, and its huge girth adds to the impressiveness. Our taxi driver stopped here at my request as we were coming from the airport to our hotel, and it was only a 5-minute detour — absolutely worth it!