Blogs from Zimbabwe, Africa - page 45

The trip to Zimbabwe began today! With the few delays experienced I may have been leaving a few days later than expected but the main thing is that I’m going to get there. I booked a Greyhound bus leaving at 8:45am and arriving in Bulawayo at 8:45pm. Driving through the main city of Jo’Burg on the way to the bus station you cannot help but notice the severe poverty around you. There are homeless people digging through rubbish, beggars at every set of traffic lights, coming up to your window selling anything and everything. A funny moment happened when I spotted a group of people climbing some ones fence; the police who surely also saw what was happened seemed more concerned at my Aunty getting of the mobile phone; in which she was ringing police anyways. ... read more

I've just returned from Zimbabwe which by my own admission is probably a strange choice for a holiday vacation, and indeed there was not much of a queue at the 'IN' line at customs. Of course most people come to Zimbabwe for the wildlife, and I can tell you there is plenty of it. Being a details kind of guy I tend to notice the little things more than the elephants and rhinos. I was most fascinated by the Tock Tock beetle. These guys walk for 10 or so steps, stop and beat their butt on the ground, in an attempt to attract a partner. The problem for these guys is the best place to get noise out is to do it on a hard surface,... like a road with obvious and tragic results. My other ... read more

Another Adventureous day eeerrr I mean night. Last night it rain, its not suprising as it is the rainy season, but people have been saying that everywhere we have been. But it poured, and not only did it pour but it rained all night long. Our tent is little bit water proof :-) We were moist most of the night, figuring out where the leaks were comming from, adjusting the fly, putting bags bewteen fly and tent. mud inthe tent, mozzies inthe tent us inthe tent b/c a huge overland truck group was takingover our lovely quiet hostel. We ordered a Pizza for the 2nd night in a row (note though, that for lunch we always try to eat local food whatever that may be, yesterday we have sadza and chicken for me and sadza and ... read more

Rhino tracking on foot .... we were able to get less than 10m from 4 white rhino...fantastic....... read more

Une autre magnifique journée remplie d'émotions. Debout à 5 h am car Gen et moi allons faire un tour d'ultra Léger au-dessus des chutes Victoria pour le lever du soleil. Ensuite cet après-midi, nous allons en safari à dos d'éléphant. Nous arrivons à l'aéroport... plutôt au champ de départ. L'ultraléger a l'air ultrafragile. C'est une espèce de machine volante à deux places, une à côté de l'autre avec un minuscule moteur de tondeuse suspendu devant. Ce sera 15 minutes pour 90$ US pour survoler les magnifiques chutes Victoria. Il vente beaucoup. Je n'ai pas vraiment peur après ma journée d'adrénaline cela me semble plutôt pépère jusqu'à ce que je réalise, en plein vol, que ce machin volant n'a pas de porte. Je me suis effectivement penchée pour mieux voir les chutes et là, j'ai réalisé que ... read more