Category: Zimbabwe
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Land of Great Stone Houses
The word “Zimbabwe” in old Shona means “great stone houses”, an appropriate description for one of the sites I saw here in my short visit to this country. Zimbabweans are a friendly lot, they are progressive, they don’t have the racial problems that South Africa is plagued with. I get the feeling that when the…
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Relaxing by One of the Seven Wonders of the World
LAND OF SMOKE THAT THUNDERS David Livingstone was the first European to see the falls in the 1850s (though the Arab traders probably saw them 500 to 800 years before him. Livingstone named them for Queen Victoria, but the locals know them as the Smoke that Thunders. Our team arrived here mid-afternoon a week ago …
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