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Category: Africa/African Adventure 2011/Botswana/Zimbabwe

Travellers x2: African Adventure 2011

Posted On 2012-07-192017-06-06 By Suneecomment

When two people are travelling together, there are bound to be some things that the one didn’t enjoy quite as much as the other one. I think it’s a good idea to reflect on the trip afterwards, to learn from possible mistakes and to better plan for the next one. So… the verdict is out […]

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Category: Africa/African Adventure 2011/Zimbabwe

Buffalo Steak, Face Paint and African Drums

Posted On 2012-07-142017-06-06 By Suneecomment

Our final evening in Zimbabwe was spent at the Victoria Falls Safari Lodge’s Boma dinner. It wasn’t an activity that we had booked originally, but came as a complimentary gift from our tour operator. And what a fantastic evening it turned out to be!  We were dressed up in traditional clothes, had our faces painted […]

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Category: Africa/African Adventure 2011/Zimbabwe

Walking With Lions

Posted On 2012-06-112017-06-06 By Suneecomment

Up until recently I was completely unaware that the African lion was in danger. After all, what could possibly threaten the animal king? And the answer is, of course, humans. Through hunting, loss of prey, and natural habitat destruction, the free-ranging lion populations of Africa have declined by so much as 80% in the last […]

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Category: Africa/African Adventure 2011/Zimbabwe

An Armchair Game Watcher’s Delight

Posted On 2012-06-032017-06-06 By Suneecomment

The last few days of our trip to the town of Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe was spent at the four-star Victoria Falls Safari Lodge. The lodge borders the Zambezi National Park and, situated as it is on a natural plateau, offers a fantastic view of a nearby waterhole and the park’s residents as they come […]

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Sundowners on the Zambezi River

Posted On 2012-05-272017-06-06 By Suneecomment

I’m not a big fan of alcohol. I don’t like the taste of it and I don’t like not being in control of my own actions. After years of avoiding the stuff, even a single sip of wine results in an almost instantaneous headache. Gareth also isn’t much of a drinker and can down two […]

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Meeting Minos: Our Elephant Encounter

Posted On 2012-05-202017-06-06 By Suneecomment

The truck arrived at 6 AM. Gareth and I were bleary-eyed, but excited, for we were about to go on an elephant-back safari within a private concession of the Victoria Falls National Park. After a dusty 30 minute drive we arrived at the camp where we were introduced to the other tourists who would join […]

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The Smoke That Thunders

Posted On 2012-04-262017-06-06 By Suneecomment

When I was nine years old my teacher asked us to draw a picture of what we wanted to be when we grew up one day. I drew myself sitting on a large tree branch, wearing a fedora hat (this was long before I had ever seen Indiana Jones), bulky brown walking boots and a […]

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An Evening in the Livingstone Room

Posted On 2012-04-142017-06-06 By Suneecomment

No visit to the Victoria Falls Hotel would be complete without a dinner at the Livingstone Room. Although quite expensive at $40 per person for the six-course degustation menu (another $26 dollars for an appropriate glass of wine per course, which we decided to go without), Gareth and I felt it was an experience not […]

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High Tea at the Victoria Falls Hotel

Posted On 2012-03-222017-06-06 By Suneecomment

What would a trip to the Grand Old Lady of the Falls be without high tea on the verandah? Dainty sandwiches, strawberry jam and cream on scones, and slices of delicious finger cakes, accompanied by tea (or coffee, if you’d rather) served from a silver tea pot. You can sit back in the comfy chair […]

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The Grand Old Lady of Victoria Falls

Posted On 2012-03-122017-06-06 By Suneecomment

The reason we went to Zimbabwe instead of Zambia for our trip to view the Victoria Falls, was because I absolutely insisted on staying in the Victoria Falls Hotel, also known as “the grand old lady of the Falls”. It’s a five-star Edwardian style hotel built in 1904 and evokes all the best memories of […]

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