Matabeleland North Province Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals

The ride to Zimbabwe.... Today we had a few hours drive to get in Zimbabwe.... Soooo we need to get the paspoorts ready to get in.... It took us two hours to get there and it took us forever to get the stamps and fill out the forms.... At 11.00 AM I got in Zimbabwe and it was a whole different world. The roads were realy bad and I saw a lot of poor people there....We did also made a stop at the famous Baobab tree in Zimbabwe....The biggest tree I have ever seen.... A lot of people could stan…

On the way to Bulawayo we took a slight detoiur to the Chipangali Animal sanctury, here they look after wounded and orphaned animals till either they can be re-releaased or forever. They do some amazing work with very little funds and what they get from tourists. The enclousers are a little small (and the smell awful) but you cant fault the intentions in a country where animals are not considered to be of great importance. It was here that we got our first and only look at the last of the big…

Hi everyone, I'm writing from Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. We left Jo'burg last Wednesday on our tour bus and the other 16 passengers, who are mostly Ozzies, a few Kiwis, a german girl, an irish girl and an english guy. Luckliy everyone is sound and we have been getting on brilliantly, there's 4 couples a father and son (the father being about 60 and snores like a trooper!) We arrived at Kruger National Park later that night after a very long drive, of which there have been many). Realised that th…