Country Info
- Harare
- Capital
- Zimbabwe Dollar (ZWD)
- Currency
- 11,365,366
- Population
- ZW
- Country Code
Harare Slideshow
Harare
Travel Blogs from Harare, Zimbabwe
Day 24
... to see if I had any fractured ribs. But the radiologist wouldn't be in for who knows how long and I wanted to get out of Harare. He listened to my lungs and said there was no bleeding there so I opted to skip the x-rays and get home. ...
Out of africa
Visiting my parents for the first time in Zimbabwe, terrified and exhilirated by traveling solo for the first time in my life. Met so many wonderful people, which raises the question once again - how does a '3rd world' country remain so happy when the UK ...
Hoopla in Harare
Hello!!! We headed towards the Zimbabwe border from Mozambique and were going into the unknown. Zimbabwe's economy has plummeted in the last few years from President Mugabe's political policies. As a result, the currency (as of August 1st 2006) had ...
do not fly air zimbabwe
... , a cubby-hole with one man inside. Forst he looked at Mr Khan's ticket and said, Did you re-confirm? - I phoned Air Zimbabwe yesterday. - Did you give your contact number? - They didn't ask for it. - Even though we are not responsible, because ...
Day 31
Day 31 Thursday, January 7, 2011 Another full day in Harare. Debbie, Alan and all of our gang piled in the Land Cruiser and headed for town after our Proper English Breakfast (an egg, something like canadian bacon, boerwurst sausage, a fried red ...
Harare Airport
Fly from HRE - JNB... our flight was at 7.15am. Checking in and getting through customs took 20 mins - excellent time - better than Heathrow which took us over 2 hours! We laneded in J'Burg at 9am ...
DAy 17
Day 17 Friday, December 24 Christmas Eve Today was a day of wrapping a few last gifts and prepping for Christmas day! We made cards for the neighbors and and went Christmas caroling for our Zimbabweans first caroling experience. We had to boat ...
Day 26
... only one hour for visiting at the hospital, 10:00 to 11:00. The Putterills attend a good size Baptist church in Harare. They lost their pastor in early December. So different guys from the congregation have been filling the pulpit. ...
Arrived in Harare
We landed at 6.30am (approx) got through passport control about an hour later and then sat in arrivals for about an hour and a half before calling Antelope Park to see if someone would ever come and collect us! (It looks like they forgot all about us - ...
Harare
... is soaring and prices rise on an hourly basis and the use of dollars is illegal. Not an easy life if you live in Zimbabwe. Harare is the prettiest city of the ones we have seen in Africa so far. Harare is supposed to be a pretty city and not ...
Zimbabwe!
We arrived at Vic Falls in Zimbabwe on 15th April if i remember correctly.. really need to keep this blog more up to date! trouble is, on the tour, whenever we found a computer it was hard to write a proper entry without worrying about how much i was ...
3 countries in 2 days
... off the road for fear of hidden landmines. After 24 hours of driving & camping in Mozambique we arrived at the Zimbabwe border. The USA government currently has warnings against travel in this country, but then again there were warnings about all of ...
Day 30
... and couldn't get a connection! RATS! But we're not done trying! This morning the whole fam is heading to Harare with our passports to get an extension on our visas. Hopefully all will go well on that. I will take my laptop ...
Where's Bob?
It was an early start to the day as we departed for Zimbabwe's capital city, Harare. When we arrived around lunchtime we were slightly intimidated by the hustle and bustle when we got off the bus but soon relaxed enough to wander through the city. ...
Rachel's Birthday
... people are so poor they can't afford anything. But I felt like I had done my good deed of the day. From Harare we headed to the Great Zimbabwe ruins, which is printed on the banknotes. We saw the ruin which was in a very pretty area surrounded by hills. ...
Day 5
... 's every inch of a foot long, nose to tail. We might do a head mount. Our first trip to Harare was fun and interesting yesterday. Zimbabwe was once a British Colony as was Jamaica so there are lots of similarities to me. When we visited ...
Harare..... in transit to Ethiopia...... still....
We left Jo'Burg on a bright and sunny Tuesday morning, bound for Addis Ababa with a 2 day stopover in Harare, Zimbabwe. Our Zimbabwean travel agent in Jo'Burg had warned us about the Zimbabwe Dollar exchange rate and forbid us to go to a bank to exchange ...
Floating Down the River
Decided to take an unexpected detour into Zimbabwe to float down Lake Kariba on a houseboat for a few days. 35 litres of punch, a fancy dress party and a fishing contest later and it was back on terra-firma and heading for ...
Day 13
Monday, December 20th Its 6:30 and the house is quiet. Only Saidi and me stirring. Have I mentioned Saidi? He is Debbie's mom's cook and "house boy". I'm sure I'm gaining weight thanks to this chap. He sets a proper ...
Zimbabwe so far (minus photo's)
... far no computer has been able to recognise the software edition. Perfect. WEEK ONE > MANA POOLS SAFARI Spent first week in Zimbabwe camping out in Mana Pools on Safari in an old refugee tent. The key characteristics of said tent being its ability to ...
African Adventure
... militia men pull in and the guards ducked...so we decided it was our que to exit...as quickly as possible. We are off the the Zimbabwe ruins at the crack of dawn tomorrow. There are 28 in the group and we were supposed to have 2 trucks but one of the ...
Jul 14, 2011
This is a top pick! 
Happy New Year
... the power lines have been placed it's safe. Next day we drove into Zimbabwe where we had to change a small amount of US$ into Zimbabwe dollars at the bank rate which at the moment is 250 for $1. Later that day our tour leader got a black market rate ...
Horse riding!!!
Today was my first trip to the stables and it didn't get off to a good start! The stable lads didn't have a clue what was going on and didn't tell me what I needed to be doing with the horses as we are supposed to groom them and clean their feet first. ...
Hararobbery
I flew to Kenya via Harare, Zimbabwe. They had the nerve to charge me US$50 for a transit visa. I was in the airport 2 hours. No wonder no one wants to go to ...
Where Does One Get An Ethiopian Visa?
... his boss resulted in a slight hitch. It turns out that the embassy here now only issues visas to residents of Zimbabwe (and a handful of other southern African countries which the embassy here also represents). Argh. My argument that the ...
Birdland Camp - Lions and Birds
Birdland Camp is about 30 km from Harare. It's on a beautiful lake. Some friends of the owner came with their pet - a very cute one month old baby lion. Tonight was also our dres up party. Everybody had bought an outrageous costume for somebody in the ...
Day 198 199 - Zimbabwe, Harare - I Hate Lloyds
... modern with high rises, pedestrian malls and street entertainers. Locals walked by saying hello and thanking us for coming to Zimbabwe. Were warned about pickpockets but didn't have any problem, even carrying around my asking for it massive handbag. ...
Langa and Loko
I was with the lions again today, it was interesting yesterday as apart from the lion walks which are great we had a cultural debate with Henry, one of the guides, and Juliette another employee. Henry started on the usual stuff like education, marriage ...