Crowne Plaza Monomatapa Harare

... would be- "why not tame all species?" No logic seems to preclude it. It would depend on alternate (vegetarian) food supplies of course. Then the lion could truly lie down with the lamb.

I wake up in the early morning hours while everyone else is still asleep, the countryside lit by moonlight. There’s only one nagging problem, so I do something I’ve never done before- I defecate aboard a moving bus, roaring through the African ...

... phone shop and walking around for hours we finally managed to get through only to be told.... "oh your card should be fine now". You what?!?!!!!! Followed by "if you'd just like to phone our customer service line o......." "No I'm not going to phone your customer service line, it's taken me about 4 hours to find a phone to call you. I want my card sorted and I want it done now". I could have ranted for at least another 10 minutes but at US$1 per ...

... bringing everything into the country: cars, refrigerators, tons and tons of food, etc. Zimbabwean visa quick, cheap, and easy to maintain--no bribes! Bus takes 3 hours to clear border. Man in sleeveless tshirt goes on bus and collects money, no explanation given. 6 AM: Wakeup on Greyhound to beautiful sunrise. Landscape is dry and rocky. People out collecting firewood. Countryside looks very, very poor. 12 PM: Arrive at Harare bus station. City is ...

... change your dollars, rands or whatever. Transport is a critical issue, people just stand for hours along roads and do hitch-hiking or squeeze themselves in overcrowded buses without even having a seat somtimes. They may just stand for hours to go from one city to another. Fortunately I had many contacts with local people and could therefore live the typical lifestyle of people at grass roots level, hence really geting to know the culture and have in-depth ...

... actually nearly drowned. We also managed to pop a boat on a rock! At lunch we were undecided about whether we could go on we were that shaken up, Vikki and another guirl called it a day as well as one of the lads who had had a bad knock on the head but the rest of us soldiered on and as it happens the afternoon was easier than the morning and we didnt come out once so on reflection had a good day. The sunday was Vikkis ...

... for about an hour, just in awe of what he was doing. At night, around 02:30 th**e was more rustling. Anoth** huge elephant was aft** the same tree, right by my tent. He just needed to put one of those four big feet of his in the wrong place and I was toast! When the coast was clear I popped my head out of the tent and watched him fix his head and should**s in-between the four way split in the tree trunk and shake the tree until enough fruit fell to the ground ...

... people while I was there. One thing that seemed to be agreed upon was the Robert Mugabe, or Uncle Bob, would not leave until he deemed it the right time. Mugabe is an incredible politician, a revolutionary hero, and a wily, incredibly stubborn, and healthy old man. While his party mans the helm of an economic sinking ship, the opposition in Zimbabwean has fallen into two opposing, squabbling camps. They are too busy fighting each other to mount any type of viable opposition to ...

... than you would ever think possible - leapt through the air and brought down the female ostrich in a flurry of feathers, kicking legs, wildly stabbing beak (the ostrich not the lions) and vicious claws. What followed was pretty gruesome but strangely compelling as we watched the two lions eat the ostrich alive. They hadn't figured out how to kill it so whilst it was having it's stomach eaten and was looking at us saying "why are you just sitting there, why don't you help ...

OK lets start this project with a shock and a 5:30am start!! It wouldn't have been a problem if I had got any sleep at all. Bloody freezing!!! Hope it doesn't stay like this! First day with the lions and I feel like death! Arrived at Masuwe, the place where we will be looking after the lions on a daily basis. It is also a lodge where people can stay and where the clients who walk with the lions meet. The ...

... all my money with me in dollars. To do this I had to withdraw Malawian Kwacha from ATM machines, which was a problem as Visa had once again decided to block my card. Luckily I got this sorted out and didn't have to wait any longer in this city which I was eager to leave. I have had a keen interest in Zimbabwe and its politics for the past few years, and it is one of the countries in Africa that I looked forward to visiting most. Doris Lessing is one of my favourite authors, and ...