Antelope Park famed for its walking with lions, night encounters and it's breeding program to try and get the lion population stronger and off the endangered species list. The African lions population has dropped dramatically over the last 30yrs from 200,000 to about 25000. Today is Grahams 60th birthday, so a quick stop in a market to buy some garish shirts and bandanas. We arrived at camp about 3, had a quick tour around camp site and an introduction into an...

Met up with our tour guide Champion to take us on a guided tour of the ruins. The site was built between the 13th and 17th centuries. All buildings were built as dry wall structures, which was incredible to see and amazing how they have lasted so long! First stop was the citadel were the king lived, incredible stone work which was built in with the natural rock formations and stunning views over the surrounding area and the great enclosure. Stopped in a little...

A usual day on the truck, listening to music and reading a book. Most reading I've done since Harry Potter! Today we are heading for the great zimbabwe ruins, don't know a great deal about the ruins seen a little on tv, so will be nice going there with little knowledge. Arrived late afternoon and had to relocate on camp due to smell of human excrement! Rogan and Alison had mentioned sunrise at the ruins but to early for me! Had the best meal to date on the t...

Woke at 8.30 just in time for breakfast, 8.30 is considered a lie-in so far on this trip, this was aided by drinking a bottle of rum the night before with Rogan, Lee, Abi and David. That morning we went for a walk into the mountains to see two waterfalls with rock pools to swim in, bushman paintings but only a few, the age of these is unknown. The guide Sam was full of local knowledge. Cheese Toasties for dinner, had started to crave them as we discussed what w...

Today we are leaving Harare and back down to the south of the Vumba mountains towards Chimanimani. Zimbabwe has been a really interesting country so far, stunning scenery some strange rock formations scattered across the landscape, one rock looked identical to ayers rock but half the size. We are staying at a camp which is part of the outward bounds group. The road to the camp was a dirt track with narrow bridges, Rogan says there will be a lot more narrower br...