Africa...
Africa, 2015, Zimbabwe, Cape Town Scroll down... (and/or click on map or photos)...
Banyan Tree *
* (Most) photos by Michelle Bates
Seattle - Toronto...
Miles, Meesh, Me *
Toronto - Ethiopia...
(too bad we can't stop for a few days in Addis Ababa...) *
Zimbabwe!
(the Southern Sky!) Zimbabwe is roughly the size of Montana - w/13,000,000 people (twice that of Washington State)
Harare
The Harare International Airport
Friends Marcie & Chris *
Kadoma
Kadama Townhall
Downtown Kadoma...
Local Blacksmith *
Kadoma - Gokwe
The Road to Gowke
This is a "Paved" road (according to Google Maps...) *
Huge trucks of cotton bales that (apparently) have the right-of-way... *
Oops! * (OK, we'll let them have the center of the road)
Gokwe
Where Chris' family lives *
Where we stayed * (they put us in the 'nice' huts)
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Juggling (and teaching juggling) at the local school in Gawke
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Quick learners *
Miles was quite the novelty *
Gokwe
The locals hanging out by the kitchen *
Matobo National Park (Motopos)
Awesome rocks ! *
How did they get here? *
We didn't get to see any rhinos, but apparently a few are still around...
But we did see the coolest lizards ever... *
Pretty nice...
Hwange National Park
Elephants ! * (quite the welcoming committee)
Zebra... *
Victoria Falls & the Great Zambezi River
Lots of water... *
Zip line across the Zambezi River *
Baboons - right outside our cabin... (and elephants later that night, but no photo) *
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Great Zimbabwe
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Miles and Danai and Michelle and Stefan... and Miles... and Danai... *
Chimanamani Mountains
Awesome hike with Denani *
Digby Falls
Best swimming hole ever...
Epworth Balancing Rocks "The Giant's Playground"
More awesome rocks! *
As seen on the (no longer used) Zimbabwean currency (inflation got a little out of hand...)
Now they use the US dollar - but the bills are getting very threadbare...
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Bridal Veil Falls
"Let not people who come after you say to you Shame..."
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Zimbabwe...
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Zimbabwe - Johannesburg - Cape Town
Cape Town
Table Mountain (the view from our hotel balcony) *
Where Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years in prison. *
Cape of Good Hope
Cape of Good Hope (almost the southen point of Africa...)
Very windy...
Penguins! *
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Cape Town - Dubai...
...kind of would like to have a day to visit Dubai... kind of...
Dubai - Seattle...
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By way of the North Pole !
How cool is that??
Why do we come home via the North Pole? Because the world is round and airlines take the shortest path (also known as a 'great arc'). Turns out that on a round earth (as opposed to a flat screen or map, which is what we're more used to looking at) the shortest path from Dubai to Seattle is almost directly over the North Pole. And we'll be going over mid-day (not that it matters, at that time of year the North Pole still has almost 24 hours a day of daylight).
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Seattle...
Home...
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