Our Wild Journey Southern Africa

[ourwildjourney]

Hi guys,

greetings from Harare, Zimbabwe...this time we have "only" 3 months, just doing a little trip through Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa. We will now just post the photos of Zimbabwe, first part...more is to follow.

Enjoy! :)


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[forsakenfuture]

The monkey with the hand on the fence depresses me. The lion one is amazing. Great photos.

[xCSx]

really like the pictures of the people, wish more of these were included in other people's write ups

[trailsurfer]

Great pics. Thanks for sharing and please continue to check in.

[3jarrells]

Amazing pics. More words! I know the more pics! refrain is more common. It would take allot of beer to tell the stories of these photos. Very good stuff, thanks for sharing. Keep going, keep shooting.

[Christian P.]

yes awesome pics.

How's the moral in Zimbabwe these days? Have the tourists return to the country?

[ourwildjourney]

Sorry, I have been absolutely neglecting this thread...I will answer later, absolutely forgot about it!

[ourwildjourney]

Zim is relatively fine, we love the country and its inhabitants. We have been there 3 times now, spent a month the first time, a month the second time and this year spent nearly 2 months there. The landscapes and nature are rocky and sometimes harsh, but lovely to look at! Sorry, if it sounds like an advertisement for Zim, but we think the country urgently needs tourists as a lot of the inhabitants are suffering from the economic situation.

The shops are full, you can pay in USD, diesel and petrol are no problem, so all in all travelling is fine. Of course, the prices are quite high, so if you can, stock up in South Africa or Namibia.

We came into Zim through Plumtree and continued to Bulawayo to visit Matopos again, as we had met a 2 travelers from South Africa, one of them born in Zim, his granddad having done a lot of research and excavation work on bushman/San paintings. In these 5 days in Matopos we saw a lot! Very impressive caves and paintings. We even managed to find some long-forgotten track that led us to the "ringing rocks" - old rocks which really ring when hit!

This time, we more spent on backroads, and we met very friendly, welcoming people everywhere! We even bushcamped, although not always adviseable. And found more caves and paintings, for example between Rusape and Mutoko...caves, which had impressive paintings but were hardly visited!

In Harare we caught up with our friends from the 4x4 Club and got offered an amazing opportunity...go with them into Hwange to do some trailclearing - we were supposed to go into the South-Western part of the park, where there are no tourists and no people at all. We didn´t see many animals either, as they really weren´t used to people. But to show how remote that place was: We found ivory on some track...and that means that there REALLY is no one! (Of course, the ivory got given to the park rangers, don´t worry).

HEre is a little video of our trailclearing "expedition":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brQpluakzVE