Masvingo, Zimbabwe Travel Blogs

Great Zimbabwe Monument
Sep 17, 2009 (4 photos)

The great Zimbabwe monument is an ancient city given world heritage status. Well you would have thought such an important attraction would have been signposted.  We assumed so also but found ourselves lost again.  We had to ask four times for ...

Great Zimbabwe Ruins
Aug 21, 2009 (18 photos)

Great Zimbabwe Ruins - the largest African city from 13 to 18 century.

Greater Zimbabwe
Nov 22, 2006

... , quite a shithole if you ask me. Not a place to be recommended. But then there are not many proper backpacker places in Zimbabwe...and hardly any backpackers ;-) But a gem of a cafe is "The Hidden Garden Cafe". Had 3 meals there, really delicious. ...

Site archeologique
Jun 28, 2009 (3 photos)

Il y a bien des ruines en Afrique. Voici, la plus connue celle du grand zimbabwe qui a donne le nom au pays ainsi que l embleme qui se trouve sur le drapeau du pays. Le site est impressionant meme si beaucoup de speculation entour ce dernier. Notamment ...

Beautiful Country - Destructive Leadership
Sep 16, 2005

... to scrape together the money. He told me that in order to pay, Mugabe essentially emptied all foreign exchange accounts of Zimbabwe's businesspeople and gave them Zim Dollars in exchange. He essentially stole all the money from those in the country that ...

Visiting the ruins of Great Zimbawe, Masvingo
May 10, 2007 (7 photos)

... into gently sloping flatlands, and although everything was beautiful, it lacked the excitement of mountainous landscape. We arrived in Masvingo about five hours later, although I didn't get off until a bus station two kilometres later, because of a ...

Zimbabwe
Aug 13, 2007 (10 photos)

... bread line. The next morning I woke up very early to try to find transportation to the town of Masvingo. Transport is a major problem in Zimbabwe right now because gasoline can only be purchased on the black-market. The pumps at all the gas stations ...

Safari Day 3 - Shingwedzi to Masvingo (Zimbabwe)
Nov 15, 2002

... others had to pay US$30. Ha, Ha, another perk to being Irish. We then had to make a horrendous drive to a place called Masvingo. The temperature outside was hitting 38o C! Now this story has to be told. We stopped off for our lunch at a Wimpy fast food ...

Stuck
Nov 24, 2008

Suddenly Zimbabwe felt a bit unsafe. One of Oscar del Toro's (the truck's) fuel lines sheared off while we were driving to Masvingo. We noticed a diesel leak, but didn't realize how lucky we were to arrive until we stopped at a campsite that had been ...

Great Zimbabwe
Aug 22, 1997 (3 photos)

... faces, but all were armed with AK's and a machine gun was set up roadside. (the gun thing is also not uncommon in Zimbabwe). They were busy checking through cars, but when our turn came we were just waved through, obviously they were not looking for a ...

Messina to Masvingo
Dec 10, 2006 (5 photos)

Spent a few hours crossing the border into Zimbabwe, saw the Great Zimbabwe ruins, and camped in the campground nearby.

Finally there
Apr 25, 2007

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Masvingo
Sep 11, 2008

... seems as if the fuel crises is already or at least will soon be history. The fuel crisis was caused by price control. The Zimbabwe government made a law which set the retail price of fuel at a much lower rate than the costs thereof to the wholesalers. One ...

Great Zimbabwe Ruins
Feb 18, 2007

(clearly I'm creating this entry before I leave)  :)

Great Zimbabwe
Apr 22, 2006

... over 4 1/2 hours to travel there (in a really uncomfortable car I might add but at least we had transportation).  Great Zimbabwe is the oldest settlement in South Sahara.  It's really amazing; you can't even see the king's residence on the ...

Masvingo, Zimbabwe
Nov 15, 2002

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Great Zimbabwe
Dec 18, 2006

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