On our way to Great Zimbabwe ruins we stopped at a stone market. Seems Malawi is all about the wood and Zimbabwe is all about the stone. The carvings are amazing and really detailed. Small problem is the weight - but I am not thinking about transporting things to Australia until South Africa so some Rhino bookends, a giraffe head carving and hippo carving I was done - surely can't be more than 6 more kilos to my overall luggage of about 100kg so far J We go...

Arrived in the rain today but after speaking to the hotel manager - we were glad we had come. We are staying in the grounds of the Chimanimani Hotel which you can see is a colonial site that in it's day would have been at least 4 stars. The hotel has a pool, mini golf course and gorgeously landscaped grounds and gardens which have some of the greenest grass we have seen so far. Had cups of tea with freshly baked muffins on the terrace this afternoon and thou...

Another day; another border. We simply drove straight through Mozambique which was quite disappointing, but when you have to cover as much ground as we do (20,000km) then I guess you can't see everything. The main thing we had in Mozambique was rain, but it was a nice break from really harsh sunshine and sweaty bodies, especially since it was nice enough to just rain whilst we were on the truck driving and we had breaks in the rain whilst we set up or broke ...