Wednesday 31 August 2011

Victoria Falls

No trip to Zimbabwe is complete without visiting its major attraction, one of the 7 natural wonders of the world- Victoria Falls. We went up on a special weekend- the VicFalls Marathon was being run by 5 of our friends from MSF and WorldVision with a mix of half and full marathon runners. We also celebrated my 31st birthday at this majestic site.


In the peak season (April-May) Victoria Falls has the largest water volume flowing over its edge in the world.

Tuesday 30 August 2011

Farewells and welcomes

 Life in the iNGO (international NGO) world involves a lot of farewells and welcomes. With people spending between 9months and 2 years in resource limited countries for any given project, there's almost monthly farewell parties and often times welcoming a new person at the same event. This was the case 2 weeks ago when Nadeah arrived in Zimbabwe and Phillida had a farewell party before leaving for a WorldVision job in east Africa.


That same weekend, she met some of my Zimbabwean friends, going on a hike in scenic Matopos nat´l park. Some awesome landscape like this paper bark tree, where the bark peels off with the texture of fillo.