Monday, November 12, 2012

Balancing, Balancing Rocks!!

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Zimbabwe's Matopos area is famous for its balancing rocks!
This one made me think of someone kneeling to pray.

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Matobo National Park, an UNESCO world heritage site, is absolutely breathtaking, with granite scenery like I've never seen before.

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It was a beautiful place simultaneously so desolate and so alive with life.

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One of Matobo's dams--I think it's Togwana Dam.

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One of the lakes formed by the dam.

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Fishermen rest near a stork at the dam's lake.

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More balancing rocks on a dwala ("whalebacks"...the gray granite hills rising above the landscape.)!
One writer wrote that to describe Matobos as "a place of natural beauty is something of an understatement."

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A teaser for the next post,
we climbed one of the most beautiful granite hills to Malindidzimu ("Place of Benevolent Spirits") or the View of the World.


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