(Part of) the group: from left to right: Anna, Katrine, Erika, Vicki, Duncan, Walter, Sarah, Sally, Louise, Anna, Ravn.
We have travelled via different modes of transport: first there's Nessie, who has stopped for a short toilet break here in the middle of nowhere. An old German army truck, adapted to take up to 20 people, with their luggage, food, water, tents, etc.
Trains: from Harare to Victoria Falls we travelled by overnight train. Locomotives like this one pulled trains with more than 20 coaches. While we slept in our comfortable 1st class compartments, the train stopped at about 70 stations.
To "travel" over the Zambezi near Vic Falls we needed this adrenalizing raft to take us 18 kms downstream. We didn't stay dry...
To go down from a sand dune near Swakopmund you need something completely different: this high tech speed board (a peace of wood) can reach speeds of 70 km/h.
In Botswana we visited the Okavango Delta, which we entered by 4WD and mokoro. Each boat had a guide who puntered us through the shallow rivers. They were very afraid of hippo's. And also here, we did not stay dry.
Passing through the countryside this is a usual sight. Small villages, consisting of al lot of houses like these and one of to brick houses, usually bottle stores and schools. Children run after us, waving and shouting.
The Great Zimbabwe, Great Houses of Stone, gave Zimbabwe its name. Built of thousands of bricks peeled from rocks, you can see a huge ruin complex here. Beware of monkeys!
The Shona people of Zimbabwe are growingly famous of their characteristic style of art. The sculpture garden of Harare's National Gallery.
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