Lunched in Mzozu on Tuesday before heading to Nkata Bay Curio markets. I traded clothes, a pillow, toothpaste, a book & a sandwich for various wooden souvenirs. I was so organized I even bought my Secret Santa present & silly gift for our Christmas day game. We continued on to Chinteche Beach, I had a couple of drinks before dinner & an early night. Wednesday was pretty cool because somebody came up with the idea at breakfast to play Beach Olympics. We picked four teams from a hat. Mine was named Yok's Pussy Possy because we had one male competitor (Yok) [View Full Entry]

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Last weekend I went to Lake Kariba which borders Zambia, and is about a 4 hour drive northeast of Harare. We stayed in a hotel called Caribbea Bay which is this oddly organized, Caribbean-fashioned resort complete with water slide and trampoline. No swimming in Lake Kariba due to it teeming with crocodiles and hippos. [Contrary to what we are taught about hippos as children (i.e. that they are cuddly and friendly), hippos are actually quite lethal and will crush anyone standing too close to shore with their massive jaws and then drag them down to the depths of the lake. (Those [View Full Entry]

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