Our Heartveld Adventures During Lockdown – Instalment 2
I suppose you could say our adventure started about a month before lockdown when we moved house to a property up on the heights overlooking the lake. We had the house repainted and the move went smoothly, and the lock down then gave us the time to work on the garden and get our house […]
Our Heartveld Adventures During Lockdown – Instalment 1
Who on earth would have guessed this time last year where we would be now? That the entire world would be affected by an awful virus called Covid 19? That no country, no matter how small, or where in the world it is located, would be untouched by it? I most certainly wouldn’t have believed […]
Mukambi Safari Lodge in the great Kafue National Park
We first met the owners of Mukambi Safari Lodge, Idjan and Robyn, in 2016 when we still lived in Zambia and had gone to visit our friend Sport Beattie (founder and Managing Director or Game Rangers International). Although they didn’t know us from a “bar of soap”, as the saying goes, they very graciously invited […]
Lusaka Explorations – Sandy’s Creations & Southern Sun Ridgeway
Over the December holidays Woody and I planned a trip to Zambia in order to attend the son’s wedding of some very close friends who live in the Serenje area. Since we were going to be in Zambia and I have been getting many requests to add Zambia to our website, we took the opportunity […]
Musangano – Gateway to the Eastern Highlands
Zimbabwe is a country that has such a diverse landscape, from the extreme remoteness of Gonarezhou to the wilderness that is Mana Pools, to the mighty Victoria Falls, and then on to what used to be the biggest man-made lake in the world, Lake Kariba. And I have not even mentioned our other special destinations […]
Aberfoyle, Honde Valley, Far & Wide
I have lived in Zimbabwe for almost my whole life and until recently I had never been to the Honde Valley. I have no idea why, except that no one I knew had been there and it was a whole day’s drive from where I lived, so we tended to go to closer tourist spots […]
White Horse Inn
I mentioned in a previous blog that Woody and I had taken the opportunity, during the hottest months in Kariba, to take a familiarisation trip to the Eastern Highlands of our beautiful Zimbabwe. We started at Musangano in Mutare, then progressed to the Bvumba. Many years before we had been invited by Woody’s mom and […]
Binga Exploration: Fish Eagle, Hippo & Gecko Cottages
If you have been following our blogs, you might remember the blog about our trip to Binga and Mlibizi earlier in the year. As I mentioned then, neither Woody nor I had been to the Binga area for many, many years and we were very excited to see if it was as we remembered. I […]
Wild Heritage – Kingfisher & Lodge 16
Earlier this year we had the opportunity to stay at not one but 2 of the gorgeous houses at Wild Heritage. My husband and I had visited one of the other houses a few years previously, but it was a very quick visit to view the Kariba Dam wall when 4 of the gates were […]
Return to Eden Houseboat Trip & Lake Harvest Kariba Half Marathon Weekend
Gosh … where has the time gone? It seems like just the other day we were all getting ready for the Lake Harvest Half Marathon weekend in Kariba and then it was suddenly upon us. I promised myself I’d sit down and write my blog about it right after, but here we are in October, […]