From Chimoio, Mozambique we drove more or less straight to Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. Time to let some of our travel companions leave and some new join us. One of the newcomers was Franciska, a friend of mine since 10-12 years back. Our first stop on was in the Chinhoyi Caves, then we proceeded to Lake Kariba. Once a very nice holiday location but now it would seem the tourists had deserted it due to the violent land grabbing a few years prior to our visit.
From Lake Kariba and the national park Chete we continue west towards Victoria Falls (second time for me now but it’s a place well worth visiting twice). We camp at Shoestrings Backpackers again, and we do white river rafting again. This time we were out of luck though, our raft flipped and we probably spent a good third of the trip just picking up our stuff and crew members out of the water again.
Despite being a country with a lot of bad history and open wounds amongst it people I think Zimbabwe is one of the nicest countries on this trip. I have many fond memories from here and would like to go back some time.
