Can You Drive a Rental Car from Zimbabwe to Zambia?

Zambia is one of four countries our rental fleet is permitted to cross into, alongside Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. The short answer to whether you can drive a rental car across is yes — the longer answer is that it needs to be arranged before you collect the vehicle, not decided at the border.

That means the cross-border letter, third-party insurance for the vehicle in Zambia, and the relevant carbon tax paperwork all get prepared in advance. Turning up at the Victoria Falls border post without this arranged is the actual thing that causes delays — not the crossing itself.

If Zambia is part of your plans, mention it when you book rather than after — it changes nothing about which vehicle you can take, just how far ahead the paperwork needs to start.