Zimbabwe, Mana Pools, April 2017

Since Mana Pools is by far Jens his favorite park and since he stayed there almost three months last year (read here part one, two and three), we decided to have a look right after rainy season. What a difference! Actually in the end it turned out to be still quite in the rainy season, since we even got rain while we were there as well. It made the roads (and everything) really muddy, but the sunsets and the views beautiful dramatic.
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Zimbabwe, Mana Pools, December 2016

This year I was in Mana with a mission. I wanted to stay for a longer time and see how everything would evolve with the start of the rainy season. It got really very hot, although it already started raining every once in a while the end of November. On some of the pictures here in November you can already see some green starting to come out. But on these ones you clearly do!
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Zimbabwe, Mana Pools, November 2016

After the sad happening with the wild dog (see here) I had to leave the park since you’re only allowed into Zimbabwe for 30 days on a normal tourist visa. Not a disaster, since I also had to resupply. I was out of… well almost everything! So off to Lusaka in Zambia. I went for shopping, to the workshop for some minor things and I even got invited by a friend to stay at his place. Always much nicer this way then staying somewhere in your own.
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Zimbabwe, April 2015

Von Botswana fuhr ich relativ schnell über Harare nach Mana Pools NP. Schon bei der Fahrt in den Park hingen noch dicke Wolken über dem Tal und auch schon bei der Fahrt von Harare weg musste ich durch einige kräftige Regenschauer fahren. Nicht die besten Vorzeichen, um in einen Park zu fahren, der in der Regenzeit für mehrere Monate schließt…

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