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- Zimbabwe Dollar (ZWD)
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Bulawayo Slideshow
Bulawayo
Travel Blogs from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Balancing rocks and rhino
9:00 am We head off for Matobos National Park with our guide Andy, an ex-poacher turned hunter and now a safari game ranger. Awesome fella with loads of near death in the bush experiences, one included him beating a Rhino with the barrel of his gun and a ...
Shongolola Express
... adoption when they arrived at their station.. never let mamma’s give you their children!! We were thinking to stay in Bulawayo for a night but the backpacker was outside town and the museum (maybe the only really interesting thing to see there was ...
Khayelihle Childrens Village
... were so happy, well cared for and loved it was hard to remember they all had lost at least both their parents. Most times in Zimbabwe an orphan will be cared for by extended family or the community, so things had been pretty rough for these ones to end up ...
Rhino poaching
... 300 in Zimbabwe. The poaching is driven by demand from the Far East, basically Chinese medicine. A poacher in Zimbabwe will be paid $1000 for a rhino horn which will sell in China for $1 million. With unemployment running ...
Bulawayo and traveling to Matapos
... I cracked a tooth yesterday! This was a fruitless task as I would have had to make an appointment for in a week's time! Bulawayo was an interesting place. It was like New Orleans meets Kiev! The shops always always seemed to large for their purpose. I ...
My Four Hour Walk and the Leopards
Well that was a very cold night. We are after all 1300 metres from sea level. I got up early and took advantage of the quiet by doing some washing while no one was around. Then suddenly, people were everywhere. By 9.15am, it was quiet again. I headed ...
Can it get any worse??
... us since more leg room means less risk for thrombosis :) But as always, a nice journey would be followed by a horrible one. We arrived to Bulawayo too late to take a big bus to Vic Falls so we had to board a medium-sized one which is very crowded and the ...
The peace and quiet is wicked
... of the spongebob crewe also enjoyed, the first time in almost three months without “mum', 'dad'.... After three excellent nights we had to leave the bush behind and head into Bulawayo,the lack of hunting ability of the kids meant we needed ...
Malawi Madness
... where I was busy relaxing and being pampered... Well, since then we've travelled through Malawi and Mozambique and we are now in Zimbabwe!! Malawi was great, we had 4 nights there, 3 of which were spent right on the beach of Lake Malawi. Whilst at Kande ...
Entering Zimbabwe
... a lot longer as you would generally expect. Then it was a couple of hours drive to the second biggest city in Zimbabwe (Bulawayo). Immediately on crossing the border the landscape became more hilly. I became quite excited as I though about the adventures ...
Bulawayo
We left at 5am for our drive to Bulawayo, stopping en-route at the Great Zimbabwe ruins. I didn't fancy a 3 hour hike in the glaring sunshine so stayed in the truck with some of the others in a lovely campsite where we just chilled and watched the monkeys ...
Zimbabwe...
... before we were set to depart, we decided to try something else instead. The girl I would be traveling with suggested Zimbabwe. After a bit of research into the political situation in the country, we decided to try it. I know several ...
arrival in Zimbabwe
... night at BJ and Chippos, the pivotal contact Chris has connected with over the years. BJ is a very influncial man in the Zimbabwe Church... unknown to us. More on that later. One sleep and we are off again... see next blog when it gets written lol. ...
The best and worst of Southern Africa
... in Southern Africa. Anyway, now to the best country in Soutern Africa….we crossed the border and were straight into Zimbabwe. We took a taxi and then a bus and we arrived in Harare early evening. The journey was pretty painless and it was ...
Finding Mr Rhodes
The Matobo NP surrounds the Matopo Hills where Cecil Rhodes is buried. His grave in a solid slab of granite at his 'World View' is ...
Pass
Prendre un taxi non-officiel et le faire bosser dur. La voiture était tellement vieille que le montant de la porte gauche était attaché au banc. Faire un deux heures d'internet au centre ville. Attraper son bus à la dernière minute. échanger un ...
Zimbabwe :)
... way one should behave?! Hmmmmm... After saying our goodbyes we drove about 164 kilometres to the 'second city' of Bulawayo in the centre of Zimbabwe where we simply stocked up on essentials and headed over to the place where we're staying. Luckily ...
We need money to travel.
... it right there sitting on the verandah. We found that we are stared at, not rudely, but with interest. The info centre in Bulawayo is an imposing building with a big clock watch. On either side of a long rectangular fish pond in front of the building ...
But the sign said 12km!!!
... is. Endless Savannah with huge granite outcrops bursting through the scenery littered with greenery. We eventually pulled into Bulawayo and crashed in a backpackers before heading into town to find the single local restaurant open where the waitress ...
Talking lizards??
... buried here. His body was moved from Cape Town to Kimberley by car (no planes in those days), then from Kimberley by train to Bulawayo and from there with a horse chart to the Matobos, where they dug a square hole into the granite and there he was buried. ...
Dangerous night trip in total darkness
Drove another odd 1000km to meet up with the (oh-so-best) Iandree and their friend Marrette. Finally arrived at our destination Granite Park Lodge where we drove in complete darkness (all street lamps are out of order), through back alleys and drove ...
Matobo National Park
We visited Matobo National Park with eight other people from Oasis and Wally the guide. The park itself was beautiful.. Towers of huge granite boulders seemed to defy gravity as boulders rested on each other in precarious positions. ...