Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

... and doesn't really feel like "the real Africa." So we decided to take a side trip to the town of Bulawayo for a few days to see the Great Zimbabwe ruins as well as Matopos National Park. I have to say that when we started planning this trip about a year ...

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... at Danayi's family's home. She was a sweet older lady whose English was passable, but not preferred. She was originally from Bulawayo, a city to the southwest from which I hoped to catch a train or bus up to Victoria Falls. She decided the best way for ...

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... exhibit, that allowed us to straighten out which antlers belong to which antelopes, an impressive walk-through mine (Zimbabwe produces copper, gold, uranium, and other minerals), and interesting relics from different African tribes that were collected at ...

We had to leave the adorable little lions behind and headed to Bulawayo. There we went on a fabulous trip into Matobo National Park where we saw some cave paintings, learned about the medicinal properties of the plants and climbed to the top of a crazy ...