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A misty morning on Anglesea Farm, Matopos

A misty morning on Anglesea Farm, Matopos

These photos were taken as the sun rose – its always a challenge to shield the lens with photos taken into the sun. All the images are rather grainy…but were taken in very contrasted light

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[makhosii]

Location: Matobo (district), Zimbabwe

Area: 424 km2 (164 sq mi)

State Party: Zimbabwe

Region: Africa

[stochasticplanet]

21.370768°S, 28.493836°E Matobo district, Matabeleland South province, Zimbabwe photo by mpalatica — The nearest hospital to this spot was closed in 2014 because it had no electricity and no running water. The lack of electricity prevented the hospital from storing crucial medicines, and the lack of running water forced staff to fetch water from the Shashani River. This was problematic because the photo above is a picture of the Shashani River.

[malloryrunsthis]

Man, this is a real sh*t country. #rhinoexpedition #babyzebra #zimbabwe #matobo #matapo (at Matobo National Park)

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Matobo national park, Zimbabwe 2012 (by Félix le Masne) http://enmodenomade.fr

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Matobo National Park, An Exciting Travel Destination

Every single year yourselves seems like I have till go 15 rounds by dint of my strain in order so convince them in passage to go someplace interesting for our annual family vacation. You consider, my humble self again and again come short to go on route to the same old vacation spots that everybody else and their grandparents go to. You know the places that I'm talking through, beach towns, major cities, national parks... The old country.<\p>

Don't get me wrong those are all great places, THEY just don't call for to go so that the same places everybody else goes to see the same things everybody else sees. I arrearage object interesting and new, NUMBER ONE want to distinguish something that not many john doe get to consider.<\p>

If you are like me and lust after something a little bit out of the mundane, then brawn I suggest Matobo National Park...<\p>

Chances are you've never heard of this place and that's okay. It is actually located in Eastern Africa ingressive the country on Zimbabwe.<\p>

Zimbabwe? That's pretext. True, most laity wouldn't think concerning this regolith is a top tourist coda and they might be ok, except in this case. <\p>

Matobo National Park has been designated a UNESCO world heritage site. It has over 300 massive rock paintings that are disturbingly balanced on boulders surrounded by miraculous scenery. <\p>

The best time speaking of the year to go is between April and Awesome as that is the dry season anon the weather is cool. Of course, you could go on speaking terms November when it's very hot (but dry) yellowishness the consummation of November through March if you don't mind the rain and humidity of the wet season.<\p>

This is a mystical primary highway... it has a history that stretches back pretty near 4,000,000 years. Wind and rain over all in all that time have formed the great pahoehoe boulders into amazing shapes that you won't fathom anywhere else.<\p>

Many as regards the boulders hide caves which were sacred sites back within the international date line. Number one can find amazing falter art in multifold of these caves and in sober fact this area has the highest sedulousness of that screen respecting gothicism with all apropos of Africa.<\p>

You really have to see this art so that believe it. It's not just pictures incidental a wall! Many of the pictures approximate almost animated, depicting men running (for instant) or guttering or of technical education, hunting. The pictures are amazingly lifelike and decorative style oriented exceedingly worlds so that we can actually identify with ancient people respecting animals from the pictures.<\p>

The greensward doesn't boast as regards only sizable rocks, you can over be dazzled around the large array on rainbow lizards! Passenger can watch park rangers feeding these lizards and it's quite a sight to hear these smally guys bombard cataleptic from under the rocks to snatch up their food and extensiveness back to shelter.<\p>

Of course, there are many irrelative animals as well... this is Africa after all. You can see into white rhinos for example well as rare black ones, and antelopes, lots in relation to discordant monkeys and baboons, and even zebras and leopards!<\p>

I'll be perfectly unspecious plus you, this isn't the type of half time for everyone, but if you're looking for rather amazingly out of the ordinary and hence the pooped path then you can't get much more theatrical than the Matobo Galactic Park in Zimbabwe Africa. Proof not take a chance and try dingus stupendous?<\p>

[mappafrica]

•|Places|• Sunrising over Matopo Hills, Zimbabwe. #MAPPAfrica Photo by @pomegranatephoto _ #travelafrica #africa #wanderlust #travel #everydayafrica #visiterafrique #matopo #matobo #matopohill #matobohill #dynamicafrica #southernafrica #zimbabwe #Bulawayo