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the Okavango Delta

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If I didn’t remember a lot about Zimbabwe, I even remember less about my three or four days in the Okavango delta, in Botswana, at the end of 1989. The Okavango delta is probably the only delta in the world that doesn’t reach a sea: the Okavango river, which originates in Angola and mostly drains [...]
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Nswatugi Cave

Blog entries, Gallery, Locations
The Nswatugi Cave is located in the Matopo Hills in Southern Zimbabwe. It is famous for its main panel, which is dominated by a wide band, on which animals – kudus, perhaps – walk, surrounded by people, likely the hunters. There are also very colourful images of giraffes. Like other sides, here, too, is a [...]
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Silozwane Cave

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Located just outside the Matopo Hills National Park, is Silozwane Cave. This cave, a steep half-an-hour scramble up the hill to a granite shelter, has one of the most varied and beautiful panels I have seen, with hunters and animals, but also with several domestic scenes. Really nice! I couldn’t get enough of this one, [...]
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Pomongwe Cave

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This is a site in the Matopo Hills, south of Bulawayo. Some of the paintings, unfortunately, have been damaged in the 1920 or the 1960 – sources disagree on the timing, but not on the damage, with linseed oil, in a failed attempt to improve the painting’s visibility. I haven’t got much from this location, [...]
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an excursion to Malawi

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Having reached the southwest of Tanzania, it was only a short hop across the border, into Malawi. Except that you had to have your hair cut in advance, because long hair – for men – was forbidden in Malawi. Oh, and women wearing trousers, also a no-no. You would just not be allowed entry into [...]
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an excursion to Rwanda

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Having been to all the game parks in Tanzania – where I lived in the period 1987-1989 – I also travelled to Rwanda during this time, to what was touted as the ultimate safari experience, a visit to the mountain gorillas in the Parc National des Volcans – with its Belgian colonial history, the lingua [...]
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Southwest Tanzania

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I don’t remember a lot from the journeys further inland, mostly in south-western direction. But a few highlights stand out, just because I have some photographs left. I went to Dodoma once, to visit the Geological Survey and analyse core data from earlier oil exploration wells. The Geological Survey had been relocated already, because Dodoma [...]
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North Tanzania

Blog entries, Locations
regrets In the 1980s I was much less of an avid traveller then I am now, although even in those days I already had lots of plans that most of my colleagues at work thought were ludicrous. I wanted to cross the Masai region in Northern Tanzania, an area difficult to negotiate, and with very [...]
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Zanzibar

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There are several islands for the coast of Tanzania. Zanzibar is the best known, and the one that gave the country part of its name, after the link up with Tanganyka, in 1963. More about Zanzibar later. The other two often mentioned are Pemba and Mafia Island; just because of the name I had to [...]
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the south coast

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Lindi Lindi cannot be omitted from this set of memories: it holds the dubious honour of having provided the worst hotel accommodation I have ever slept in, up to then in 1987, and all the years after that – and I have slept in quite a few dubious hotels during my travels. The problem with [...]
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    • the Okavango Delta March 4, 2021
    • a visit to Zimbabwe March 2, 2021
    • Nswatugi Cave March 2, 2021
    • Silozwane Cave March 2, 2021
    • Pomongwe Cave March 2, 2021
    • an excursion to Malawi February 26, 2021
    • an excursion to Rwanda February 25, 2021
    • Southwest Tanzania February 20, 2021
    • North Tanzania February 13, 2021
    • Zanzibar February 10, 2021
    • the south coast February 9, 2021
    • Mikumi and the Selous February 8, 2021
    • Bagamoyo February 6, 2021
    • Dar es Salaam February 6, 2021
    • The Peggy Guggenheim Collection December 19, 2020
    • Galleria dell’Accademia, Venice December 17, 2020
    • Museo di Castelvecchio November 30, 2020
    • What’s new? November 25, 2020
    • 13. looking back on Italy November 23, 2020
    • 12. Tuscany November 22, 2020
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