Bulawayo is a fascinating town, where the grandeur of the past is slowly crumbling away. We went to visit the Railway Museum, which has many relicts of the railway times in Africa on display. Cecil Rhodes carriage is also exhibited here, he for sure travelled in style. As he had chosen Matobo NP as his …
Instead of going into the Matobo NP, we decided to spend our time at The Farmhouse, where we had a great spot to camp with fantastic views over the many boulders, but also some animals we could spot on our hikes. There was a nice walk over the monolith we were camping on, to get …
After a day of driving from Gonarezhou, we reached the ruins of Great Zimbabwe. It is the most important cultural heritage of the country, which reflects in the name Zimbabwe and also in the flag. The name Zimbabwe derives from dzimba-dza-mabwe, translated as “houses of stones”, the name the Shona gave the buildings left from their …
Gonarezhou, meaning “The Place of Elephants“, is a big and wild park in the south-east of Zimbabwe, living up to its name. There are many very remote areas we couldn’t tackle with our car and the limited time, but what we saw really impressed us. The iconic Chilojo Cliffs and the river Runde provide a …
The Savé Valley Conservancy is one of the largest private game reserves, located in the South Eastern lowveld of Zimbabwe, bordering the Savé River. The conservancy comprises 750,000 acres of diverse wildlife habitat. You might spot all of the Southern African game species, including the Big Five (elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo and rhino) and also …
On our way south from Nyanga NP, we came past Mutare, where we visited the museum, which has a fascinating collection of cars and an exhibition of natural history. The natural history section was a little dusty with sad looking staffed animals and many displays in the dark because of broken light bulbs, nevertheless there …
Mt. Nyangani, with 2595 metres the highest peak in Zimbabwe, was our target for today. After paying the park fees, we picked up a guide at the park office and drove 14km through beautiful landscape to the starting point of our hike. The first part was steep, going up the mountain in a straight line. …
In the morning, we explored the surroundings of our campsite, with a fort and rock paintings. From Hidden Rock Campsite we made our way to Nyanga and the Ziwa Ruins. After Nyanga the tar ended, and after the first turn off the road was badly washed out. We slowly drove down into a lower area, …
After picking Monty up from the airport, we spent the night at Dana B Savanna Camp south of Harare, which was a great place with some game around, a campfire at night and beautiful ablutions. We started our tour through Zimbabwe in the direction of the Eastern Highlands. On the way, we stopped at Diana’s …
We had a couple of days until our son would arrive in Harare, therefore we did a little tour around town to visit some rock art and a botanical garden, before we had to be back to the city. Our first destination was the Ngomakurira Rock Art, which lies in an amazing area of granite …
