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 […]
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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
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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.
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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
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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
We entered Zimbabwe at the Kariba Dam and had a short and easy border procedure (abt. 2 hours). If the customs guy wouldn’t have been on lunch break, it would have been even better 😉 The dam was constructed between 1955 and 1959 by the Government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, a ‘federal colony’
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