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Charewa Cave

Gallery, Locations
The Charewa Cave is perhaps the most distant cave in Mashonaland, NE Zimbabwe, but with a large number of different paintings. The access road (in 1991) was very sandy, and I was constantly worried getting bogged down in my small rented sedan. From the village it is a pleasant 30 minute walk, and a short [...]
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Mucheka Cave

Gallery, Locations
Also in Mashonaland, NE of Harare, this is a very deep cave, which has the advantage that the paintings – rock paintings in vivid colours of the San people, more commonly known as Bushmen – have been well protected against the elements. When I visited in 1991, it was a poor road, and then a [...]
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Chikupu Cave

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The Chikupu Cave complex, of a total of four caves with rock paintings made by San people (commonly known as Bushmen), is in the Mashonaland NNE of Harare. It is a bit of a scramble uphill from where you leave your car, but absolutely worthwhile. According to Peter Garland’s book, these are perhaps the largest [...]
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Mashonaland

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April 6th – upcountry: Mashonaland As soon as you get outside the relative development of Harare, things change. Tarmac turns into gravel roads, dusty and occasionally potholed. Traffic is reduced to a trickle, mostly people walking – men mostly dull dressed, but women wear colourful cloths. The occasional village consists of round huts with thatched [...]
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a visit to Zimbabwe

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At the end of almost three years living and working in Tanzania (1987-1989), I took two weeks for a short trip to Zimbabwe and Botswana. A fabulous experience, of which unfortunately, I took no notes, and only a limited amount of photographs – this was the analogue era of photography, in which you were still [...]
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Nswatugi Cave

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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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57. Cajamarca

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I am not sure whether it is Cajamarca that disappoints, or whether we are just temporarily tired of traveling. Plenty of pictures, though, so there is enough to see and do.
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