• Category Archives Zimbabwe
  • Carnivore

    Today we are all of the animals in the Savannah. As you may know you are what you eat.

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    First was crocodile patties, which tasted like porky fish.
    Then bream, a white fish from the Zambezi river, which tasted like most white fish.
    Then Mobatay Worms (a type of caterpillar) which were gritty and sandy with hints of vomit. We only ate one each, but we did manage to swallow without spitting it back up.
    The small fish are sardines, which tasted like very salty fish.

    Then the next plate:

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    (Clockwise starting with the sausage)
    Impala bratwurst, which was a bit clovy and gamey.
    Tsetsebe, which we ate before we actually saw a living one. It was our least favorite, it had a little too much connective tissue and was the gamiest of the meats.
    Eland, which was Kerri’s favorite and tasted like salty beef.
    Kudu, which was Matt’s favorite and tasted like very beefy beef.
    Warthog, which tasted like beefy beef (which is odd given that it is basically a pig) and was a bit tough.
    Chicken breast, which is the only thing that tasted like chicken.

    There was also Buffalo stew, butternut squash soup, potato chips, and one very small salad to share.

    We were very full when we finished.


  • Sacred Mountain

    To get to the cave paintings we had to climb a sacred mountain in the heat. Which none of us were very enthusiastic about.

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    The mountain is covered in lichen, which made it very pretty and colourful.

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    There was no other vegetation. The hard rock doesn’t absorb water, and it all runs off unless it collects in pools.

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    From the top of the mountain you could see the surrounding farms.

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    You are allowed to climb the sacred mountain, but you are not allowed to point at it. We are not sure why.

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    But we are glad we got to climb it because it was a really pretty view.

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  • Rhinoceroses

    Here we are with the mommy and baby rhinoceros.

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    The mom was much bigger than the baby. But not as big as a male would be.

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    The baby was small and really cute.

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    Really super cute.

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    Even though he’s much bigger than us and has a horn.

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    They trim the rhinos horns every 10 years to deter poachers. They horns are dead, like fingernails, so it doesn’t hurt. And they don’t have any big predators left so they don’t really need them.

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    Their horns aren’t really sharp even when they are babies because the white rhino horns are not as big and sharp as the black rhino horns.

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    But they would normally be bigger and sharper than this.

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    Did I mention the baby was really cute?

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    Mom was less cute.

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  • Goin’ on a Rhino Hunt

    Today we went out to search for Rhinos.

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    Kerri actually rode on the front of the truck while it was moving. But didn’t get any good pictures because it was getting dark.

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    To spot the rhinos we climbed the hills so that we could see further.

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    They were very rocky.

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    From the top we spotted a rhino.

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    Two rhinos in fact, a mom and a baby.

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