Holiday Inn Harare

... though.<br><br><br>Tonight we're off to the Aus ambassador&#8217;s place for dinner. Just a little informal affair with some Ausaid people and some embassy staff and the odd american.<br><br>The house is absolutely amazing, remants of a colonial time long gone and never to return.<br><br>Its on about 4 hectares with police guards complimenting the private security.<br><br>Delightful night with great conversation about peoples adventures out here.<br><br><br><br>

... look after themselves.<br><br>In<br>fact they could have easily beaten the sense out of me if i had spurned<br>their advances.............they had the biceps of weightlifters!<br><br><br>I<br>spent two days walking the small city of Billawayou ....chatting to<br>locals and experiencing my first taste of Zim life out of the touristy<br>Vic Falls.............Desperation was in the air at every turn<br>..........a local girl showed me round (well you cant just talk talking<br ...

... The boys were on cook club so whilst they were prepping dinner (spag bol of course) Suze, Sarah, Linds and I overtook a room with computers and cords. The temperature dropped as soon as the sun went down so were glad to be somewhere nice and warm. Amazing the difference. After dinner Oliver came to see what we were doing... or possibly just ask for more money for beer as the lads were getting on it. At feeling the warmth he disappeared and swiftly returned ...

... 5th of November, so we had plenty of time in Zimbabwe. We decided that we would like to see some of the bigger attractions in Zimbabwe e.g. Lake Kariba, Mana Pools or Hwange National Park. Both Mana Pools and Hwange National Park are some of the most majestic parks in all of Africa, and since we would probably not get another opportunity to see them, we had to to go at least one of them. So we spent a few hours going to a couple of travel agents to look for options. It was ...

... be bollox). It was a top couple of hours anyway and I"ll post pics when I can (still struggling with internet and always strapped for time). And so Saturday arrived and after much gobbing off by yours truly the dream team took to the water and embarked on what can only be described as the most terrifying experience of all our short lives. We flipped the boat on nearly every difficult rapid ( much to our guides disgust ...

... and making the Falls. How amazing is that? We walked along the same designated pathway of the Falls, but not a single splash or spray of wat**, unlike the drenching last time! We headed back to see the Falls from the Zimbabwean side wh**e it was even more difficult to envisage this huge gorge full of cascading wat**falls. I felt like a drought had hit town or someone had pulled the plug out of the bath that is Vic Falls. Wh**e the Horseshoe Falls and the ...

We only spent 24 hours in Mozambique heading straight through to Zimbabwe. Before we reached Tete - the major northern town of Mozambique - we didn't see a single house made of concrete. Every settlement we passed was constructed of mud, sticks and grass thatch. While it seemed there is even less money in Mozambique, the atmosphere, however, seemed a lot lighter than it had in Malawi; and Tete was positively bustling in comparison to Blantyre. We spent the night camping ...

Well not much to really update you on this week. Been a bit of the same old thing really. You know, getting up at 5:45 in 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 Zambezi river. Absolutely ...

... Three hours lat** and we w**e finally through the Beitbridge bord** into Zimbabwe. We picked up two passeng**s just aft** the bord**. They paid cash. I was told the bus had no license to pick up or drop off passeng**s in Zimbabwe. My initial plan was to hop off in Harare and continue to Blantyre in Malawi.<br><br>On the bord** I found out about 'Push Money'. I had heard about it happening on the Tanzania-Kenya bord** between Tanga and Mombassa, wh**e the bus ...