Country Info
- Harare
- Capital
- Zimbabwe Dollar (ZWD)
- Currency
- 11,365,366
- Population
- ZW
- Country Code
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Harare
Travel Blogs from Harare, Zimbabwe
Vic Falls
... patch and also fixed the concrete water butt! Not bad for a morning. In the afternoon we went on a game drive in the Zimbabwe National park. Really cool and I was very excited. Saw my first up close, wild elephants, Water buck, a Hippo eating in the ...
Church & Football
From Bulawayo back to Harare I got on the oldest and noisiest bus you can imagine. When I put my iPod on maximum volume I could hardly hear nothing. It was so bad that even the Zimbabweans don't take this bus since it was only the ...
Puzzled by Harare
... ; the problems are political in nature, and once I was careful I should be perfectly safe. I took a direct bus from Blantyre to Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, in order to get what could have been a two or three day journey on matatus over in a day. We ...
Lions,Elephants,and...Ants!
... , and the rising sun dyed the sky a deep red as we packed our tents away and headed for Zimbabwe,first stop Harare. The border crossing threw up only two minor incidents: 1) When collecting money from everyone for visas, we amazingly ended ...
Staying at a Zimbabwean family in the capital
... ) and turn back on Saturday to have a good night out with the guys. Practical stuff - Hitchhiking is a normal thing in Zimbabwe and many people just take a ride in stead of the buses. The costs are about the same but if you hitch (in ...
first taste of Zim
Zimbabwe Harare airport is a little dated but well maintained, presumably with the help of Barclays Bank, whose advertisements covered the Immigration stations, that I had much time to peruse in the in the LONG queue for Visas and immigration. I got ...
The Bush Survival Tips
Before I left the UK I was given some highly dubious survival tips for my time away. They ranged from - disguise myself as a tree if a bear comes towards me, swim perfectly upright in the sea in the vicinity of a shark as they can't bite you sideways and ...
bahra with a gun -can you imagine??!!
... Kennedy, Sylus etc. Checked my flights finally – off on 2nd July with flight at 720am so will have to leave about 3am. Then Harare to Jo’Burg, Jo’Burg to Singapore, onto Delhi and then land at Kathmandu on 4th July. After that I’ll ...
Zimbabwe
... and the bungi jumping. There are some truly picturesque places here I must admit! No hangover today so all was good ;o) Left Zimbabwe about 3 so back home in good time. Was nearly asleep by 6 but was encouraged to go out for a few beers. Strangely ...
Civilisation again
... the rest of their days, drawing and re-drawing the line by which they live by. I could see why they would never leave Zimbabwe, although many have. It is a beautiful, majestic country, with sincere, and wonderful people. It is a country rich in resources, ...
the strike of the itchy feet!!
Well the natural wind down has happened and I've got my itchy feet again – literally itchy feet which kept my up most of the night. No I don’t have trench-foot or anything before you ask. I’ve spent most mornings wandering over to the ...
bushcraft!!
Days are running away so don't remember what we do one day to the next. We had a bit of bushcraft so we can now find water if we are dumped off the back of the truck, make glue or poison to catch a bird or fish and make snares or jewellery with the bark ...
look out for the ultimate bum shot!!
Today I rode an elephant. His name is Macavusi Mac for short. That's all ...
Harare - The Capital.
... not elaborate. You get that!. We went for our full hour body massages at the hotel health centre, then a quite stroll into Central Harare for a coffee and snack, and we were ready to tackle the trip home. At the Harare airport we met a lovely couple from ...
Are Ele's more intelligent than humans??
4 Elephants on the Safari Ranch which includes one gorgeous and hilarious baby elephant called Katunga. He's about 17 months and loves showing off so when we come to do ele handling and cleaning out he starts trumpeting, shaking his head and comes to the ...
Camping trip
... the morning, walking lions, feeding them on Giraffe legs and donkey heads you know the normal sort of things you do when out in Zimbabwe! ;o) Been a good week though as I also went on a little camping trip to Chindu Island which is in the middle of the ...
ffing scared!!
... was not brave. Wasn’t sure I would add this at first in case the folks read it and got worried but this is Zimbabwe reality. We were driving in the truck with Bright looking for the Eland to set down some feed when Bright stopped and said "guys ...
AFRİKA'DA HAYVANLARIN YAŞAMI (Afrika Sun
Afrika Sunrise...!!!!! YOUR SMILE IS YOUR BEST FRIEND._._._.MAKE IT SOME ONE ELSE'S TOO ! BE HAPPY,IT'S ONE WAY OF BEING WISE, NARESH ...
guess where I am
For anyone who watched There's a Rhino in My House whenever I've mentioned Judy -she's the Judy from the programme!! Tatenda the rhino lives in the pen next to our house so we see him walking back with Shannon at the end of the day and get to feed him!! ...
A Bright Bright Day
... lay out and replenish salt mixtures across the park. These are for the 2 black rhinos who roam free. This is the start of Zimbabwe’s winter months and the grass isn’t as nutritional as it could and doesn’t taste good so the animals ...
oh nio thinking about leaving!
... and they are trying a new one. If this works the monitors will be used for all rhinos to keep track of poaching activity across Zimbabwe. We’ll be doing some tracking again to watch how he fares with this one – fingers crossed. The other great ...
First Weekend
... travels with a catapault and he was walking through the pheasant farm and up comes this pheasant not 5 feet away from him. In Zimbabwe they always run away so he thought this one just meandering along beside him was a bit of providence so out pops his ...
Home to Zimbabwe
... flight - the food was inedible but the flight itself was fine and it got me home just 11 hours later than originally planned! Zimbabwe is an interesting experience. Due to the silly rate of inflation ( I think it was somewhere in the region of about ...
Mugabi's mad house
... probs. One of the guards was even interested in the Irish writing on my passport. Once through the border we were heading for Harare although we weren't strictly going there as the travel advise for the FCO was to avoid the city centre and so any ...
In country
So arrived yesterday into Harare about 1230ish and got picked up by a txi for the hour and a half drive to the Imire lodge going through some amazing country. Even before the lodge you could see monkeys wandering and leaping through the trees!. It's only ...
Huge surprises
... of Mugabe, that I was truly astounded by the country. Whilst I seem to say this about everywhere we visit, Zimbabwe is a stunningly beautiful country. Everywhere you go there are strange rock formations that made a huge impact on the ...
Tourism in Harare...
We'll explain soon how we ended up staying in someone's apartment, got our camera stolen and of course explored ...
Flight to Harare
We fly to Zimbabwe where we meet the truck that will be our transporation for the next six ...