Jul 29 2011 Three week visit to Zimbabwe

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  (...) sail on Lake Kariba and sleep three nights on their, I hope, calm waters; and I'll get to the mountains of Nyanga park where tumbling water see you again, this time at the falls Mutarazi (...), porJavier Brandoli.

Text and photo: Javier Brandoli

It was a constant during the three months of path last year embarked from Cape Town to Uganda. A rumor that haunted me and I always left the doors: Zimbabwe is the country with the best parks in Africa. I was told several travelers who meet on the road; types bearing the continent sweat in the boots for years. I remember last year when I was three days in Livingstone, Zimbabwe's northern city where Victoria Falls, I thought: "Why not stay longer shit know about this country".

Then I crossed on foot to Zambia and there, at a hotel in Lower Zambezi, contemplated the other side of the immense wealth which was in the center an imaginary line was the border with Zimbabwe. "We can not cross from here", Zambians told me, "The patrols come and arrest us". The here a strip of water was measured by eye. "This park is very nice, but opposite, Zimbabwe, is full of lions and wildlife is fascinating ", told me one night a waiter in my hotel that I was having a drink looking at the other side at that time you only hear are shadows and noises. "What shit did not stay", returned thinking.

But, a year later I'm about to tour the country banned for three weeks. I'll pick Gonarezhou National Park; discover the ruins of Great Zimbabwe (remains of the oldest civilization of southern Africa); dormiré en la colonial Bulawayo, where Bushman rock paintings and behold I will visit the grave of Cecil Rhodes, British tycoon that dreamed of making your garden Africa; will trace lions in Hwange Park; 'll sit and watch as the water falls at Victoria Falls; sail on Lake Kariba and sleep three nights on their, I hope, calm waters; and I'll get to the mountains of Nyanga park where tumbling water see you again, this time at the falls Mutarazi. Then, crossing the Mozambique, Donde volveré a Vilankulos (I was already in April) and rest three days on the water blue sand.

That's my plan pay off debt stop travel. Someone always speaks of a site you should not miss while walking lost trying to find a previous council. Zimbabwe will have mixed feelings, harsh realities, untamed beauty, devenir political history of y by defining. The 21 August return to Cape Town and then tell you in this blog if traveler tips both were right.

Again I feel the feeling of travel, of losing, to get to places unknown. That is the reason to continue here: see and try to understand, after 14 months, Africa. Eye squeeze. The more time I spend, harder it is to the environment adjectives. I want to enjoy their brutal nature and observe the steps of its people. Back to stumble upon the chaos of African cities and their offal markets. I have absurd conversations, meaningless smiles. Hear from the tent the language of the night and come back to live at the pace the sun. Then, somewhere, 'll sit at a bonfire in which to hear stories from the other side and someone will observe that the noise is near and hoarse cry of a hippo. It will be there, looking abroad that disturbs their rest.