Harare

                                                                                                                                  

Harare – February 22

Harare is Zimbabwe's capital city and also it's largest city. We arrived in Harare just in time for lunch. Venturing out into the city like explorers in a new world we chose a pizza place for lunch and stuck together, as a group (eight of us). After lunch we went to the Art Gallery and for the post office experience. Everything is an experience and small tasks that take less than a minute at home seem to take a very long time. We met with success and eventually even found postcards to attach the stamps to, and posted them. Finding the location where we were to be picked up was an orienteering task in itself, but we found it successfully and by 4:30 the truck, arrived to pick us up.

We drove a couple of hours to a campground where we met another group of Intrepid travellers. It was interesting to talk to them, as they were travelling in the opposite direction, but following the same route. One fellow reported that in Zanzibar, he went out snorkeling. He jumped into about five feet of water and landed straight on a sea urchin. The spikes penetrated into his foot right to the bone and since the sea urchin has barbed spikes, they could not be removed; only clipped flush to his skin. Note to self; DON'T JUMP INTO UNFAMILIAR OCEAN WATERS!