Country Info
- Harare
- Capital
- Zimbabwe Dollar (ZWD)
- Currency
- 11,365,366
- Population
- ZW
- Country Code
Harare Slideshow
Top Hotels in Harare
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Meikles Hotel Harare
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Crowne Plaza Monomatapa Harare
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Sheraton Harare Htl And Towers
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Imba Matombo Harare
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New Ambassador Hotel Harare
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Travel Blogs from Harare, Zimbabwe
A Magic Bus Ride
This is a top pick! ... 5 men on the bus. I was packing very light compared to everyone else. They were all trying to get goods to family in Zimbabwe, where times are tougher due to the devaluing of the Zimbabwean dollar. Every seat was full and some were stacked with bags, and ...
An Update from Kufunda
This is a top pick! ... some raw mustard greens or blackjack. As I mentioned, Kufunda is sharing its wealth and knowledge with various other communities around Zimbabwe. They're all dealing with the same issues - AIDS, orphans and school fees, transition to permaculture, and ...
More from Kufunda
This is a top pick! I forgot to mention the giant rocks that dot the landscape around here. Its like Elephant Rocks but more spread out for miles and miles. It's solid granite - a boulder climber's paradise. Check the photos. I haven't been able to climb a big one yet. ...
Earthquake ina Zimbabwe
This is a top pick! On Wednesday night (Thursday morning), I felt my first earthquake. I was up reading later than usual - about 12:30 a.m. - and everything started shaking. It was enough to make the cieling timbers creak. I went outside when I realized what was happening ...
It's So Hard To Say Goodbye
This is a top pick! Kufunda took in me in with open arms, and I became a part of the community. I haven't lived in community that many times before, but it has never felt so good to be one of the villagers. It has also never hurt so bad to move on. They almost convinced me ...
Zimbabwe: Welcome to the World of Mugabe
This is a top pick! ... be fighting for its life. It is a government that seems determined to avoid responsibility for a sinking ship they are captaining. Zimbabwe is a country filled with rich and poor, educated and uneducated, vast potential and wasted talent, and hope and ...
Big Brother Bob is Watching
This is a top pick! ... station we drove out, and I was floored with confusion and relief. We moved slowly back the way we came, praising Harare and Zimbabwe in general to the cop still sitting in the back seat beside ________. How magnificent the city was compared to Lusaka! ...
Saturday Night in the Sunshine City
This is a top pick! ... drinks on the town. It's Saturday night and I'm itching to check out the scene. No matter how badly off things are in Harare and Zimbabwe as a whole it must still be a better party than Lusaka. We meet at the posh Bronte hotel in the Avenues, one ...
Pretoria to Harare to Lusaka
This is a top pick! SOUTH AFRICA to ZIMBABWE to ZAMBIA Johannesburg to Harare to Lusaka 29th - 30th November 2006 Airport - OR Tambo (formerly known as Johannesburg International) My backpack was tampered with, the plastic covering was ripped to shreds and it had clearly ...
War Vets and Yorkshire Pudding
This is a top pick! ... face ever-increasing prices on everything, and a staggeringly devalued foreign-exchange rate. At the time I was in Harare the official Zimbabwe Reserve Bank rate was 6200 Zimbabwean dollars to the American dollar. On the black market the exchange was ...
The Land That Coke Forgot
This is a top pick! ... deceptively simple. In an attempt to shore up his power, Robert Mugabe, president since independence, diverted blame for Zimbabwe's economic decline by scapegoating foreigners, Western states, white farmers, and even homosexuals. Finally, in the late ...
Day 12
DAY 12 Sunday December 19th Trusting you got my back log of posts on Saturday. I hoped that I would be able to get some photos uploaded from Mr. Pringle's house as well but no such luck. We had another great rain storm in the evening. It ...
Day 1
THURSDAY December 8th 2010 Well, Here we are at Mwanga Lodge, 22.5 kilometers from Zimbabwe's Capital city of Harare. We arrived late on the 8th. Our flight was so late that the customs officials had gone home to bed. Favor! We had ...
Day 7
... them every week for thirteen years when he was a park ranger. He's managed several of the largest national parks in Zimbabwe. We are scheduled to depart at 8:00 a.m. The lion cubs are going to a sitter. We'll miss ...
Day 22
Day 22 Wednesday, DEC 29 It rained ALL night long! Everything is muddy and the tents are soaked! We had breakfast at 7:00 and started packing things up. Lots to do and a long drive home to Mwanga ...
Day 23
... crushed. Debbie got firm direction from the Lord not to take her back to Kariba's small hospital but to get her straight to Harare. Within minutes the plan was made and the Cruiser was loaded. Gordon would drive, Debbie would ride in the back ...
Day 15
DAY 15 WEDNESDAY, December 22 early morning The boat engine was finally fixed and ready for a grand day on Lake Kariba! Before we left the boat dock, Ezra dropped a worm in the water and caught a nice cat fish. First fish gets a piece of ...
Zimbabwe
During my 9 months in Zim I got to travel around a fair bit and experienced lots of different things. I got to visit the rural areas aswell as flying over Victoria Falls in a ...
day 2
FRIDAY December 9th 2010 Again, we woke at 5:30 to watch Africa's best graze past our veranda. A kind fellow brought us tea and coffee to sip as took in the show! What a delight! We joined the Putterills in the main lodge for breakfast ...
Hookers and Hold ups
... has gone on far too long .....and i really only have limited knowledge of all the angles and the complicated history that made zimbabwe what it is today. Howvere i can conclude that things are getting better even if very slowly ....the Dollar is firmly ...
Day 28
DAY 28 Tuesday, January 4, 2011 Well, after a full day in Harare, and several attempts I still couldn't get my blog updated properly. I did get in a short post. Tried again to get an xray of my shoulder and chest but there was no electricity ...
Zimbabwe
... more or less on time, which is always a pleasant surprise, despite 2 border crossings (once into Mozambique, and then into Zimbabwe). There were only three other tourists on the bus with us and had met very few other travelers along the way that had ...
DAy 19
DAY 19 Sunday, December 26th We woke up to big rain this morning. The nativity was outside. I'm not so sure its repairable. No great loss. We spent the rainy morning sharing photos cards between everybody's camera. The girls ...
A case of theft and a dose of malaria
... the force of the water surge, but came through with flying colours and we decided then and there that a detour back through Zimbabwe was a sound choice. Revisiting Zim also gave us the chance to show Kwetu to Tim’s (the potential buyer) parents in ...
Hupenyu Hutsva Children's Home, Harare
... into a shop to get sorted out, the peopel that work in the shops have been know to steal the parts for themselves....that\s zimbabwe for you. Drew also used to teach and is fabulous with kids so he brought along his guitar and we all sang \you are my ...
Day 25
... , 2011! Amazing! Debbie and I drove into town to see her mom. (Its about a 40 minute drive from Mwanga to Harare.) Gran wasn't getting enough oxygen in the night so they intubated her. They are going to keep her sedated and on the ...
Zimbabwe
... a magnificent sight and all in all well worth the wait. We also met Sam who has been staying in Zimbabwe for a few months and convinced us to hit up Harare for a couple of days after Zambia. So after a couple of days in Livingstone the three of us packed ...
Day 16
DAY 16 Thursday, December 23 What an all around African Day we had today! We went out on the lake for a day filled with swimming, picnicking on crocodile isle, game viewing and loads of fishing! We saw elephants, hippos, crocs, hundreds of ...