Very pleasant facilities with chalets and camping.Had a good meal at the lodge followed by good stories around their pit bouma. They breed lions so heard them roaring all night.
There are many police stops along the way but apparently they have been told not to harass tourists so get waived through most..except poor Jakes who got a US$10 fine for not carrying a fire hydrant.
A lot of repairs and maintenance is being done to the roads with a result they now have a few tol roads manned by one person for both directions of traffic!! A policeman is at hand to check that each driver is given a receipt and another sitting on the side of the road with a machine gun!!! We assume that is for non payers !!!
Quite a few garages are still without fuel but it has not affected us as we have always been able to get from some where. Prices for diesel range anywhere from $1.31 to $1.47 per Lt.
We arrived at the gate at Gonarezhou only to have an hour delay in checking us in as there appeared to be problems with their booking system . This we thought was resolved with great inefficiency !! only to arrive at out site at Chipinda Pools to find other people on our site!!
We sorted ourselves out in the end.
The site was good on the edge of the Runde River with running water and hot showers.
Unfortunately there isn't much game ..the little we have seen are very skittish ..we think as a result of hunting and poaching in the past . The scenery is very pretty varying from large river beds, lovely cliffs and a variety of big trees .
There are many police stops along the way but apparently they have been told not to harass tourists so get waived through most..except poor Jakes who got a US$10 fine for not carrying a fire hydrant.
A lot of repairs and maintenance is being done to the roads with a result they now have a few tol roads manned by one person for both directions of traffic!! A policeman is at hand to check that each driver is given a receipt and another sitting on the side of the road with a machine gun!!! We assume that is for non payers !!!
Quite a few garages are still without fuel but it has not affected us as we have always been able to get from some where. Prices for diesel range anywhere from $1.31 to $1.47 per Lt.
We arrived at the gate at Gonarezhou only to have an hour delay in checking us in as there appeared to be problems with their booking system . This we thought was resolved with great inefficiency !! only to arrive at out site at Chipinda Pools to find other people on our site!!
We sorted ourselves out in the end.
The site was good on the edge of the Runde River with running water and hot showers.
Unfortunately there isn't much game ..the little we have seen are very skittish ..we think as a result of hunting and poaching in the past . The scenery is very pretty varying from large river beds, lovely cliffs and a variety of big trees .
Pity about the game, but this does not appear to be an isolated problem. Would love to know what the birding is like in these remote places. Hope there will be some photos to pore over!
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