Kategorie: Allgemein
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Crocodile Lodge
Here we left Africa in 2017, here it starts again in 2018: The Crocodile Lodge in Johannesburg. Toyo is waiting (freshly washed) under a tin roof. Pretty ready to start. Although Crocodile Lodge can present Kois, Emus and Buerbulls, their six crocs strengthen the company brand a bit more. The Lodge’s six pets are still…
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3 days Johannesburg
That’s the way it is in Africa. Three days are gone, not much happened. We loaded our Landcruiser, installed a new solar regulator, produced a short circuit in one of our four batteries, drove around town for four hours looking for a Varta battery dealer, ordered a battery, picked it up & installed it the next…
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No souvenirs today
On our 8 hours drive we passed the highly secured Venetia diamond mine of De Beers. The 3rd largest diamond mining venture in the world with an annual output of 4 million carats. Despite being girls‘ best friends, neither Martina nor Lore did not get an early Christmas present. The landscape didn’t change very much.…
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Merck University in Joburg
Yesterday saw the annual hike of the first Merck University graduates around Oppenheim. In South Africa, two alumnis thought of their fellow students with some Sauvignon Blanc on Friday already.
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Also in 2018: Zimbabwe
We left South Africa for Zimbabwe on Sunday morning. Wise. As the border crossing was actually unproblematic. However even on Sundays you have to pay a fee here, have a look into the car there, need a stamp from someone important – and so it takes about two hours. We are curious to see how the country…
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Matobo Hills National Park
Completely alone we spend the first night in Zimbabwe in the national park of Matobo Hills on idyllic campsites around a small lake, but unfortunately no water runs (and in the lake crocodiles lurk) and the toilets are unattractive in the meantime even for the passing baboons. Although everything looks like several years of neglect,…
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View of the World
The reward the next morning after another ascent: sunrise at the tomb of Cecil Rhodes and a „View of the World“ as the world just awakens. Die Belohnung am nächsten Morgen nach einem nochmaligen Aufstieg: Sonnenaufgang am Grab von Cecil Rhodes und ein „View of the World“ als die Welt eben erwacht. The Matobo Mountains…
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Cholera
We leave Matobo Hills. Heading north. Not via Harare where we had been last year. The reason to avoid the city now: More than 5.000 cholera outbreaks have been reported. We decide to drive via Bulawayo where we find a house completely for ourselves. And while shopping the confirmation on the front page of the…
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Fuel shortage rocks Zim
My headline of today’s blog post comes from the headline of a local daily newspaper. The shortage of fuel caused by a lack of foreign currency does not bypass us either. In Bulawayo we got diesel at the fourth filling station. In our next destination, Chinhoyi, we ran through all the petrol stations and got…
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Meanwhile in Darmstadt
For a few days we will remain silent now. This blogpost will be published while we are already in the Mana Pools National Park. Far away from any internet but in the middle of an untouched nature. We’ll come back with some wildlife photos. In den nächsten Tagen herrscht Sendepause. Wenn Ihr das lest, sind…