Leopard Rock Hotel Mutare

... Zim and thought we will have to sort it out there..<br><br>Arrived in Mutare and all was good, shops open lots of food and happy people.. sometimes the media really does bugger up ones perception of a country!! The funny thing is Zim now uses the US dollar as their dollar has no real value anymore. The only problem with this process is that noone has brought in American coins hence there is no change. In ...

Le voyage au mozambique est penible non acause de la chaleur (c est l hiver), ni a cause des bus (assez moderne meme si on est un peu entasse) mais a cause tres l heure matinale des departs pour les bus longues distances. Ainsi, les departs se font generalement a 4-5H du matin. Et si on enchaine les departs a se rythme on devient vite fatugues.<br>

... proximas. Pude passar uns bons momentos com eles e ouvir como estava sendo a experiencia deles. Foi durante esse caminho que comecei a me sentir de fato voltando. Seguindo os passos do retorno acabei passando por muitos dos lugares que so havia visto seis meses antes, ficando com uma estranha sensacao de "quanto tempo ja passou", misturada com a de "como o tempo passa rapido". Fiquei bem surpreso em ver que minha nocao espacial ...

... reflexo da falta de planos e ideias reais sobre o que vai acontecer apos regressar. Agora estou em uma cidade chamada Chimoio, apos dois dias de estrada. Passei os dias em onibus apertados e as noites em alguma cidade do caminho. Mesmo apos seis meses ainda me impressiona a precariedade dos transportes publicos aqui. Uma vez mais o veiculo que nos conduzia quebrou no caminho durantes muitas horas. O que nao eh nada de se impressionar ...

... car and we all got out to help the poor couple. They had dug themselves in quite deep and even managed to bank the left side of the car on some concrete and therefore had no traction on the front left tyre. Amy quickly took control of the situation and with the help of the jack, big rocks and Cecilie and I on the back of the car we got it free. Finally we were on our way to Zimbabwe. It took most of ...

... to get out of jail tomorrow, he declined Helmut's offer of assistance. Given the huge number of people who walk along the roads in Africa - seemingly with little consideration for their own safety, it is no wonder that such accidents are fairly common. I suppose the case will be settled by the man paying a fairly small sum of money to the family of the deceased. Helmut and I said goodbye to the maid and the neighbors ...

... a slight sleep-in (the birthday boy deserves to be spoiled, after all, even if it is by himself) before getting going, by shared taxi, to the border, only 12km away from Mutare. I had been a little anxious about border formalities leaving Zimbabwe, as this is where I could be asked to provide receipts showing that I had changed all my money at the official rate. And, sure enough, there was a question on the exit form asking me how much money I had spent in the country. I put the ...

... of granite boulders, like diamonds in a ring. Again, I saw boulders balancing one upon the other, with such little contact that they looked like the slightest of breezes would blow them over. Then, as we came closer to Mutare, along the border with Mozambique, there were suddenly mountains, huge, and covered in pine forests. On the way there we were stopped at several police roadblocks, and at one of these we all had to pile out of the bus so that our tickets and papers ...

... border to cross. The paperwork was easy for all of us and we were through in no time. But nothing is ever that easy. The truck was having a few problems getting through. The Mozambican border officers were demanding being paid road tarrifs that had already been paid, and as a result wouldnt let the truck out of the country if they didnt receive $150US. Unfortunately Melvyn didnt have $150 in his kitty so embarrasingly had to borrow it from ...