If you want to read the first post, click here. We had one more full day in the valley, and spent it on the northern fringes of Chirisa Safari Area. We marked down how much more the cultivation h…
Monthly Archives: June 2016
Busi Valley – Edmore tells his tales
I was still convinced that the track between Chirisa and Chizarira was only just through the bushes. It said so on the map and the GPS was showing me that we were getting closer. My fear was tha…
Busi Valley – Working alongside the wildlife
The trip became more and more an adventure as we headed west and up to the high plateau on which the main part of the part was situated. We saw a few waterbuck and impala but very little else. T…
Busi Valley – The joys of camping and driving in the bush
I was tired of the sadza porridge that was being served up, especially as we had brought along all these English style goodies from the supermarket in Avondale. So I showed Second a whole load of…
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Busi Valley – Second and the work
We intended to get a second guide, who could cook and act as camp guard, and once the tents were up, I thought we should go find him. Edmore clambered into the now empty Judith (things like the wa…
Busi Valley – Edmore and the Camp
We wound our way around many communities and farms and another missing link in our organisation glared out of us – what happened if we did not find Edmore? How could we get around, how could we g…
Busi Valley – Solving the Mystery of Judith
We bedded down early that night, there being little else to do. And I wanted an early start in the morning. We had to get the tyre fixed, and fill the canisters with petrol. In the morning we c…
Busi Valley – KABOOM!!!!
Anyhow, we couldn’t worry too much about that, we were on our way, we had jobs to do and we had to get moving or else we would not make Gokwe by nightfall. It was already after four o’clock by th…
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Busi Valley – From Harare to the bush again
The Port Run – Festival, Freeloading and Frazzling
To visit the first post for The Port Run click here. The next to last night in Porto was their big annual festival – celebrating the city’s patron saint, St John. It seemed that the main i…