After some wonderful days spent at a friend's place in Harare, we take the road with the usual 1-day-delay (want to leave tomorrow, but eventually leave one day later!).
Harare is split up between white suburbs and a center where we don't see a white soul. It is a city that offers all the necessary commodities to live an easy life: supermarkets, fancy cloths stores, hardware for every taste, latest electronic gadgets, ...
When Robert Mugabe took over the country in 1980 he offered the white people the possibility to build a more just country with him. The Rhodesians would not cooperate and the result is the actual one: a country run down. The responsability lies on both sides and the ones suffering are - as always - the poors!
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| Wooden toys! what excellent artists! |
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| Ruedi, going home after 4 weeks of cycling: the goodies taken for us are now eaten up, there is place for plenty of new souvenirs! He made it and didn't even have to pay for the oversized luggage! |
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| Outside Harare there is a lake / recreational area where there are bird shows! Impressive! Know what Zizi means in Shona (Zimbabwean language)? It's the name for an owl!!!! (You'll have to google the other meaning yourself!) |
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| Josh with his African Fish Eagle (zu Deutsch Schreiadler ;( ) |
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| Life seems to be exhausting! And boring! |
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| Camping in the wild |
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| Littering is one of the favourite "african" sports! People don't seem to be aware of it! |
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When we say we have cycled 14'000 km the usual reaction is: "No! You are lying!" Straight.
Here: having a nice chat with steel workers during our late afternoon break. |
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| We sometimes sleep at people's places: here a kid nursery that welcomed us with open arms! Those are the encounters we travel for!! |
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| Endless straight roads going south: it's wonderful to cycle with a tailwind! |
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| Pic-nic spot beside the road. |
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| Is this phone functioning? |
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| Entering Bulawayo: there once was an open air cinema! |
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| Lovely Jacaranda street in Bulawayo. The town gives us a ghost town feeling. |
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| Matobo National Park. Beautiful but not really worth all the money! |
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| Campsite in Matobo NP |
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| Erika, ever wondered where we post the postcards for you? Here, the postman told us he would take the postcard personally back to Harare to post it there....! Did it arrive? |
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| Sometimes the scenery can be like in a fairy tale! Wonderful! |
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| Astrid watching the sunrise. |
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We don't want to sit on THAT saddle!
We enter Botswana through the border crossing Ramokgwebana and fly with a tailwind to Francistown. 75 km in 3 hours! Cycling can be wonderful!
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| Welcome to Botswana, to us, one of the most developed country on the African continent so far! |
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| To us, it seems that every village has its own water supply and a huge reservoir. Electricity supply is constant with nearly no blackouts. |
Größere Kartenansicht
Our route
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