The Mighty Zambezi River

[DrWilly]

Where to go for a long weekend? There’s a few national parks up north along the Zambezi River around a 5.5 hour drive or 1 flight from Harare and a heritage listed area as well. Decided to drive and the roads weren’t too bad, except for the last hour (30-50kms or so). There is variety of accommodation to choose from basic camping to expensive lodges… we chose a small self catered lodge.

The road petered out to a track, you had to watch the goats, cows, pigs, baboons and people regularly crossing it and it was a fairly rattlin ride.





we stopped for water at this little general store in a typical African village. Kids came flocking around to see what was up (and perhaps a free handout from the visitors).



Next door we discovered this little bar was the home of Liverpool!



Finally got to our lodge, the boardwalk shows how high the river can get, but right now central Africa is experiencing a drought.



cracked open a cold one.





And another.