Zimbabwe Travel Articles
  • Bulawayo and Matobos
    Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe. Wide, tree-lined streets and suburban lawns make it hard to believe that the Kalahari desert lies over the Botswana border at nearby Plumtree...
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  • Crocodile Dundee
    Carrie Hampton bumped into Zimbabwe's version of Crocodile Dundee on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. She tagged along with the handsome hero for...
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  • Eco-Tourism: Zimbabwe
    If you care about eco-issues, Zimbabwe�s Pamushana Lodge sounds alarmingly opulent. In each of its six villas, sliding glass walls open onto a private swimming pool with panoramic hilltop views...
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  • Harare and Midlands
    In 1896, Cecil Rhodes' Pioneer column staked its claim to this fertile high-lying plateau with its mild climate and named it Salisbury after a British Prime Minister. Today, the capital of Zimbabw
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  • Hippos in the Zambezi
    Hippos and Headwinds - Carrie Hampton negotiated the Zambezi river, full of hippos and crocs, in a flimsy fibreglass canoe and against monumental head winds. She lived to tell the story. In a...
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  • Kariba Magic
    Lake Kariba must be one of the most peaceful places to truly chill out, particularly on a houseboat heading from one end of this inland sea to the other. There is nothing much to do but to relax...
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  • Lake Kariba
    Lake Kariba - Zimbabwe's Inland Ocean, must be one of the most peaceful places to truly chill out, particularly on a houseboat heading from one end of this inland sea to the other...
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  • Shona Sculptures
    Carving it up in Zimbabwe: This article features a Shona sculptor in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe, doing the only thing he knows - shaping local rocks into works of art. Read Carrie Hampton's...
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  • Zimbabwe Facts
    The rains come in late November and it stays hot and sticky until early March. Winter stretches from May through to August and is rarely colder than your average Mediterranean summer. Full IDD and
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  • Zimbabwe in Depth
    For a small, land-locked country, not quite the size of California, Zimbabwe has more than its fair share of scenery. There's something for everyone's Kodak. From that great man-made lake and wild
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  • Zimbabwe Lowveld
    The hot, dry lowveld of south-eastern Zimbabwe is the Africa of poster images; red earth and silhouetted baobabs against a fiery sunset sky. Granite domes dwarf the spreadeagled msasa trees and...
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  • Zimbabwe National Parks
    Zimbabwe's Game Reserves were initially founded as a means of using unproductive land. Little regard was given to modern conservation values, but once these evolved, the country became a world...
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  • Zimbabwe's History
    4 million years ago: Estimated dates of hominid communities established in southern and east Africa. These man-apes would have been no bigger than a ten-year-old child. Homo erectus hunts the...
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