Berkeley Place Bulawayo

71 Josiah Tongogara St Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

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The teacher becomes the student!

A travel blog entry by leahwestbrooks

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... relaxed/fun atmosphere where children and teens would feel comfortable chatting about these issues. These times were my favorite because everyone was being quite honest and real about the current situation here in Zimbabwe and it felt like we were really making head way… We covered everything from relationships and substance abuse, to bullying and how we can keep children in school (there is a huge problem in the Matopos with high school dropouts due ...

Home sweet home...

A travel blog entry by leahwestbrooks

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... surroundings that I have gotten so accustomed to! The interesting thing about being here in Gulati, is that sometimes when we become comfortable in a place, it can be easy to be complacent and just go with the flow but I feel like here I am daily being challenged, encouraged, tested and refreshed because of the program I am doing and the people I am working with! So unlike Cape Town, where I jetted off for my next destination just as I felt right ...

Bushmen culture, human history and rhino trekking

A travel blog entry by ajm56

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... Asia and Australia.

The bushmen are a tribe genetically different to you and me; they have actual fat stores in their bumcheeks to store food for several weeks if meals are scarce, the man's penis is always part erect, and the women have extra flaps, assumedly to keep their bits clean in the naked outdoorsy life. Courting a lady consists of firing an arrow into her bum. Her response is either to pull the arrow out and hold it to her ...

What a week!

A travel blog entry by leahwestbrooks

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... On Wednesday it was my birthday so as a bday gift from my family back home, I had a little vacation in the Falls. We spent two full days embracing the beauty of the Falls with a sunset cruise along the Zambezi River, followed the next day by a life threatening white water rafting trip… I do not exaggerate when I say that at one stage after being thrown out of our raft in grade 5 rapids I thought, “Well I guess this is a pretty epic way to ...

Rhino poaching

A travel blog entry by travellingkaeti

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... be to involve the poachers in conservation, like they have in Rwanda with the gorillas. If a potential poacher can earn a decent wage as a ranger or a guide, then there would be no need for them to poach. But that position is a long way off. There aren't enough tourists or enough money to make it work at the moment. We spent the whole day in the park and we didn’t see any other visitors. But we did see ...