Balancing, Balancing Rocks!!

Zimbabwe's Matopos area is famous for its balancing rocks!

This one made me think of someone kneeling to pray.

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

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

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

One of the lakes formed by the dam.

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

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."

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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Take My Breath Away: Domboshawa

After this wonderful hike up Domboshawa, Zimbabwe, for sundowners

we were rewarded with this spectacular sunset.

Zimbabwe continues to astound me with its beauty.

Apparently I have a thing for sunsets...so naturally I put up four shots. Of the same sunset. Go figure.

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Sundowners at Domboshawa

In the spirit of the Zimbabwe tradition, we recently hiked Domboshawa for sunset.

What's a sundowner?  

The fantastic Zim tradition of going somewhere beautiful, having a drink, and watching the sun set.

Domboshawa isn't a taxing hike, but the view from the top of the kopje is beautiful.

Domboshawa means "Red Hill."

Anyone who has the (pleasure?) of meeting me, knows that this arrow--marking the hike trail---

that clearly means "watch out for the hole" would be interpreted as an invitation for me to accidentally fall in the hole.

Part of Domboshawa contains cave paintings.

These are over 6,000 years old!

A teaser of the next post: the amazing sunset over the hills of Zimbabwe!

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