Imba Matombo Harare
3, Albert Glen Close, Harare Harare, Zimbabwe
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The end is nigh!
Well it is now the 25th June and my last day in Victoria Falls and on the lion project!! I can't believe how quickly my time here in Africa has gone, only seems like yesterday that I was packing up to leave the UK. Ah well I have had some great experiences and met some wonderful people in the process. Also a few dodgy ones but we don't need to …
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The Big House of Stone
... Really brilliant day.
From here we headed north to Hwange National Park for an afternoon game drive. Quite sad as there were dead elephants everywhere. Basically over the years the number of elephants in the park has grown out of control and so when the dry season comes there just isn't enough water to feed them all. It was heartbreaking to see these huge animals laying next to a watering hole being eaten by vultures. They had apparently make it ...
Very Long Day!
... for final boarding, not initial boarding. Whoops! The next hour on our flight was not pleasant. We sat in the back row of the plane, so we could not recline our seats and a young boy two rows ahead of us HOWLED the entire time while his mother constantly yammered in a foreign language that did nothing to calm or quiet him.Once we landed, we went straight to our gate for South Africa Air to request an upgrade or a window seat (Bill had a copy of an email from one of ...
Throw Momma from the train...
... government has, surprisingly, recently banned thatching in an attempt to force people to use tin so reducing the fire risk and the need for burning (so we were told) but there doesn't seem much evidence of any effect yet.
This gives just a flavour of some of the issues facing the Tonga people and the land they live on, but there are some examples of some good sustainable industry happening in these communities. One such example is bee-keeping. I had read about this in ...
The 1st 872km from Harare - Vic Falls
... and watching and listening to everything on the truck and how she goes, turns out she now sits at around 65-70km/h so still not full throttle and able to sit at 80km/h. Muzza suggested I adjust again - this I’ll try and do in Botswana tomorrow night, no big driving day.
Having lost 2+ hours, getting to Vic Falls early was pie in the sky and I estimated around 11pm for ETA. The drive went well otherwise with a few toll gates and ...


