Protea Wanderers Illovo

... the driver didnt have his papers...........so well<br>all had to vacate the Vehicle.................<br>It was only 20<br>minutes later another bus pulled up ..........this had been arranged by<br>the driver and his young conductor..........having spent all morning<br>collecting his Customers and his $15 dollars a piece he was not about<br>to give us and our money over to another rival minibus owner.<br>We<br>piled into the new minibus............and the luggage was ...

... I burried a family member last week." At this point, everyone in the car is terrified. We note everyone's embassies as we drive out to Hope's uncle's house in case disaster strikes. "Ahh, but you will be fine," Zuroro continues. "Zimbabwe is very safe for tourists." 2 PM: Tea with Hope's aunt's family. We are shown the Zimbabwean currency. They have now chopped off 16 zeros off of the currency. Currently they are using Z$20 million notes, accepted ...

After spending two wonderful nights in Juliasdale we made our way towards Harare in Little Red with Paul and Amy. The roads in Zimbabwe are in a good condition and we were in Harare in no time. We stayed with Amy's uncle in Harare as he had a big house with a spare bedroom. He runs the flower company where also Amy works and he divides his time between Harare and Juliasdale where he lives with his family. We weren't supposed to meet up with our overland trip in Livingstone ...

I was a billionaire, I was even a trillionaire for four days in Zimbabwe!! To travel in southern Africa the three main low-cost companies are: 1time, Kulula.com and Mango (I only experienced the to first...). No, Zimbabwe is not a "No Man's Land" ruled by chaos and anarchy, despite of all that the media tend to say. It is rather the opposite, you are far safer there than in Cape Town or even worse: Jo'Burg!! people there are very friendly, hospitable, hard-worker and ...

Crossed the boarder to Zim the day after the booze cruise feeling slightly rough and not really knowing what to expect given the diabolical political situation there. Everyone was excited though as this is activity central and we all had things booked, not to mention Dannys rafting dream team of 9 members that the following day was set to tame the mighty Zambezi! Little did we know what was in store. The rest of the day ...

We started off our day touring Victoria Falls on the Zambia side. Since it was the beginning of Spring in Africa, the water level was on the low side. We could only see about 20% of the falls from Zambia, so after our tour was over we hopped in a car and were driven to the Zimbabwe border where we met Mike, our Zimbabwe tour guide. Due to the current political situation in Zimbabwe, it was really interesting to see the ...

... find one open coffee shop. At 19:00 hrs we boarded the ov**night Bulawayo Express to Victoria Falls. The train still had RR on it for Rhodesia Railways, before Rhodesia was renamed Zimbabwe. I was really looking forward to seeing the Falls some three months aft** the last time I was th**e as it was now the dry season and it would be more about the rocks than the wat**. The time on the train was inevitably spent in the bar until we got sent to bed at 02:00 by ...

... s own currency. To give some perspective, let me give some examples. When Danayi and I arrived at the Holiday Inn, we asked to use the house phone to call her family to pick us up. The front desk agreed but told us it would be $50,000 for a one minute call. At the black market rates, the call cost us about 25 cents U.S. At the official rates, the phone call cost us $200 U.S. One day at a supermarket I bought a big bar of chocolate for $356,000 Zim. At black market rates ...

... would have previously had, they then use these lions to breed from and reintroduce the cubs to the wild when they are old enough and deemed capable of hunting and defending themselves in the big wide world. The project has been running for 7 years and they are releasing their first lot of 2 year old lions this August, so hopefully they'll be able to cut it. So the main reason for going here is essentially to give our tourist money to a project which has no ...

... was on Brandy, was in front of me and the two horses walked behind Kenneth. How brave I am!!! Even harder than working with the lions!!! In the afternoon Ruth, Eileen, Hattie and myself had a canoe trip down the Zambezi. What a bloody laugh. Eileen is hilarious and had us all in stitches! It was really chilled out so were just sitting around (in our canoes) chatting and laughing and talking cr*p as usual. Then we went on to a small island where we could see/hear the Hippo's ...