Bulawayo Travel Guide: Zimbabwe's Second City
Bulawayo has Africa's finest natural history museum, Victorian streets, and the rhino-rich Matobo Hills just 35km south: an underrated Zimbabwe.
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Bulawayo has Africa's finest natural history museum, Victorian streets, and the rhino-rich Matobo Hills just 35km south: an underrated Zimbabwe.
Chimanimani rewards walkers who make the journey: high-altitude trails, cascading waterfalls, and raw mountain wilderness in Zimbabwe's far.
Towering granite walls built without mortar mark where an 11th-century city of 18,000 once stood. Great Zimbabwe is Africa's largest.
Harare is Zimbabwe's capital: the National Gallery, Mukuvisi Woodlands wildlife and Avondale cafe scene, hotels and restaurants with prices.
Hwange's 40,000 elephants are just the headline act. Wild dogs, lions, and 400 bird species make this Zimbabwe's most wildlife-dense national.
Africa's largest reservoir offers something no game drive delivers: hippos surfacing beside your houseboat at dusk and world-record tiger.
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