Harare
Travel Blogs from Harare, Zimbabwe
House of Stone
... , but I might keep a low profile while I’m here. Earlier this year I read an interesting book about the troubles in Zimbabwe, “House of Stone” by Christina Lamb. It is non-fiction, written from extensive interviews with the people ...
Chinhoyi Caves 168Km 3 hours
... Thankfully it looks like the runs have finally finished, although it will be good to have these as backups. Road conditions in Zimbabwe appear to be quite good compared to Mozambique and haven’t as yet been stopped by cops, although am observing ...
Harare night life. Pretty damn random!!!
... it was about 1am. He told us to finish our drinks before we left as drinking on the street is not allowed in Zimbabwe. Unfortunately a few of us actually tried to take travellers and swiftly got caught by the local police who were not letting the matter ...
The Big House of Stone
... may have been that way for some time. We go to the National Gallery though which was interesting. From Harare we drove to Masvingo where we visit the Great Zimbabwe Ruins. The rainy season has caught up with us again and so we walked around the ruins in ...
Harare
Mbare market is a must see if you're in Harare. But if you don't have a good reason to come here, you can skip this town. I stayed at some friends house here so it was good for that. My first bed in 2 mounths! Make a good change compare to the ...
The Trip to Harare by Bus Through Mozambique
... . As soon as we were underway, a smiley young girl got up and said, “Ladies and Gentlemen! We are on our way to Harare, Zimbabwe. But we know from the driver's experience that we cannot make it without God’s intervention. So we want to ask His ...
I didn't see no empty supermarket shelves!
After Mutare HelMan and Herman were heading for Zimbabwe's capital. Unfortunately the next few days we wouldn't get a lot of sunshine but instead the rain was haunting us. Harare downtown is very modern, the city itself is really huge and ...
Harare
Back when Zim was a slightly less shaky destination. What a shame as it was a fantastic destination; one of my favorites in the ...
Zimbabwe - Kuimba Shiri (Bird Park)
We had another 4.00am start so we could travel into Zimbabwe. The border crossings can take ages but we had no problems at all. We stopped in a local town so we could get our cook group shopping and we managed to get the ingredients to knock ...
On to Zimbabwe
Our entry into Zimbabwe was relatively painless, though a bit time consuming. Canadians are afforded a huge increase in Visa charges - can't remember the exact amount, but something like $65USD compared to the $35USD that the Americans were paying. Our ...
Zimbabwe
... was on it, but they came back and decided to wait on the next one. We headed directly for there when we entered Zimbabwe. The first rendezvous was with our black market currency dealer in a supermarket car park. The official rate is $1 = $Zm 257 ...
Beer at 8am - welcome to Zimbabwe!!
... warned to stay in front of the bar or risk being arrested!! Our first proper stop was the capital Harare, which was very cool! It’s obvious Zimbabwe is still struggling, there are a lot of closed shops and empty shelves in the ones that are still ...
and all good things come to an end
didnt make it to Malawi for new year so stayed in Harare - horrible, really ...
Harare, Zimbabwe
... .wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe). The clean landscape, great weather, and friendly people I encountered there pleasantly surprised me. Zimbabwe boasts one of Africa's highest literacy rates and English is the official language. Formerly known as ...
Harare
Back when Zim was a slightly less shaky destination. What a shame as it was afantastic destination; one of my favorites in the ...
Back in Harare
Home again and it's worse than when we left a week ago. How does this happen? I guess inflation at 40 million percent guarantees ...
Hurrying thru' Harare
We've been to Harare a couple of times. It was very pleasant. The Meikles Hotel was 'Old English Empire' ....... The gardens with the ladies selling their cloth work were great. Viv got conned and we had to do a runner down a narrow alley ......... The ...

