Entry requirements - Zimbabwe

For entry to Zimbabwe, they need a visa. This they can be issued
directly upon arrival at the airports or at border crossings.

A visa for Zimbabwe currently costs $ 30 for a single entry into the
country. If they want to enter the country twice, so it costs 45 U.S.
dollars. A six-month visa for Zimbabwe costs 55 U.S. dollars and
entitled to unlimited entries and exits.

If they want to stay on one of the entry into Zimbabwe in the country
beyond the period granted, they must renew their visa through the
Department of Immigration (Linquenda House, Nelson Mandela Ave.,
Harare) accordingly. Are branches of the Department of Immigration is
also available in other major cities across the country, for example
in Bulawayo.

Except for a visa for Zimbabwe, they need a passport for the duration
of their stay has at least another month validity. A temporary
passport is not accepted at the border. Children need to travel to
Zimbabwe, either their own (children's) passport or an entry in the
passport of the parents.

Note that the process can take up at border crossings often time
consuming. Especially if they want to enter with a car on the road to
Zimbabwe, there can be difficulties. This is expressed in the form
that corrupt officials want to earn some money and come up with a
variety of fees to be paid leave. Very popular as the air pollution
fee they aufgebrummt for their car is getting.

They remain patient in any case, even if they know that the required
fees are fictitious. Keep it friendly and they try to negotiate a good
deal. Ideally, they have an experienced guide from Zimbabwe on their
side, who can often abbreviate such formalities - you know ...
Vaccinations for Zimbabwe

If they want to enter from Europe or from South Africa to Zimbabwe,
so no vaccinations are required. If they want to be traveling from a
yellow fever infected area to Zimbabwe, they need the appropriate
vaccinations and must demonstrate this with an entry in an
international Impfass.

Victoria Falls Angel on the Edge

On the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, the Zambezi River to the
Beast: The longest waterfall in the world plunges into the depths.
Here crocodiles hunt their prey - but the real threat are the
tourists.

Lunchtime at Zambezi Sun Resort Hotel: white-skinned guests lounging
in front of cucumber sandwiches and the first beer of the day bored in
the garden trimmed. At a distance, behind cantilevered pool and sun
terrace, to agree on a tent-like stage five locals with Hammond organ
and electric drums supposedly African ways. Moses Banpeter can rotate
only about the eyes. "That's bad." The 56-year-old gardener knows the
neighboring Victoria Falls yet, as each year came only a few thousand
tourists. "That was a different world."

A world that is hardly imaginable today. For the longest waterfall in
the world on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe - twice as high
and half times as wide as Niagara Falls - is one of the most famous
sights in Africa and is also available at many World Cup tourists on
the itinerary.

The Heart of Africa, here it is pulsed, here it is pumping. The
Kololo, in the 19th Century came and settled, called the cases
Mosi-oa-Tunya, "the smoke that thunders". Gurgling rage would be more
accurate, especially now, from March to July, after the rainy season.
Then all the water flows into the coronary veins to the heart of
Africa. It is far away from the West, from Angola, Congo, Botswana and
Namibia. From the river network of the Caprivi Strip, from the Kwando,
the Chobe, and the Luanginga Kabompo. Wreath-shaped flow of the rivers
on the Victoria Falls, located 60 kilometers to about to unite in the
Zambezi.

The people living on this river, the falls and the tourists - over a
million are born each year. Of whom also lives Joyce Line Mutumba. The
29-year-old waiter at one of the many excursion steamer Zambezi above
the falls. Now she stands on the shore, looking at the gray-blue
throats and holding her arm in the sun. Two inch thick scar on her
forearm silvery shine. "That was the damn crocodile, I get goose bumps
still with fear." And at 32 degrees in the shade.

It hisses, growls and roars

The Zambezi is the fourth longest river in Africa after the Nile,
Congo and Niger. 2660 km elevated water which pushes slowly through
the savannah. However, the closer the Zambezi is the edge of Victoria
Falls, the more he goes to the width decreases, ride on, becomes more
powerful, the more his swollen belly. Then he bursts into the depths.
Unexpectedly, as it explode in a cloud of spray. With hiss, hiss and
roar.

Every second, thunders the contents of five Olympic swimming pools in
these 108 meters deep, gaping maw with its 1.7-mile-wide basalt lip.
Well 110 million liters per second. The performance of the cases
corresponds to the twelve nuclear power plants. Imaginable water
masses? Eventually, no more.

The throat, swallowed all these pools, framed by a dense, deep green
rain forest. It spans a wide sweeping rainbow, painted by the sun in
heavy tropical colors.

It was nearly 155 years ago, the 16th November 1855th David
Livingstone, a Scottish missionary, had been years before heard of a
smoke that supposedly somewhere in the middle of the African bush. On
that November day, but he settled for a canoe ride escarpment and was
overwhelmed. He named the falls after his Queen.

Livingstone, a rather dry, stubborn Scot had traveled for more than
six years in southern Africa and seen a lot. But he faltered at the
first sight of the cases of the "Wonderful at all in Africa." Here is
an incredible beauty has become a reality. "The Victoria Falls, the
scenes are so beautifully that even the angels in the air to stop and
stare."

Kavango-Zambezi National Park Without the wild animals no tourists

Kavango-Zambezi National Park Without the wild animals no tourists
Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe are the problem children of the project

Difficult it is because the war-torn Angola and the very poor in
Zambia, is the world's countries with the highest AIDS rate. Even
Zimbabwe, where chaos and corruption still prevail, is so far no
country that attracts many tourists.

"We stand with the Kaza project still in its infancy," the Namibian
Environment Minister Netumbo Nandi Ndaitwha said during the opening of
a ranger station in Bwabwata National Park in the Caprivi Strip in
early March. That it will take at least five, maybe ten years to
benefit from tourism to remote villages, above which are the
initiators agreement. "People have patience and know that it takes
several years," says Chief Inyambo Yeta. It is the traditional leader
of the Lozi ethnic group in the western province of Zambia, and he
supports the Kaza project.
The Chobe National Park
The Victoria Falls
The Okavango Delta

The National Park on the Chobe River in the north Botwanas was the
first national park in the country - it was founded in 1967.

The park covers an area of ​​about 10,000 square kilometers. Within
the park lies the Chobe Game Lodge. Here is a night in a double room
costs, including a safari through the National Park and the transfer
from Kasane airport, depending on the season 500-1000 U.S. dollars per
person. U.S. dollars are accepted almost everywhere in Botswana or
exchanged into local currency. Credit cards should not rely on
travelers.

A little cheaper, you can stay in some lodges on the edge of the park.
At the Chobe River lies the backpacker lodge Thebe River Safari. Here
does a night in your tent Botswana Pula 60, or 30 U.S. dollars. For
just $ 80, there is a double bed in the lodge. Come then add around 25
U.S. dollars for a jeep safari or a boat tour through the national
park.

If you really want to see elephants, has the best chance here. The
park is known for its extremely high density of elephants.
Environmental organizations are already trying to create new corridors
for the animals to spread further north into Angola can. In addition
to guided tours with all-terrain vehicles and boat trips on the Chobe
River, tourists can also visit here by car nature. Tickets are
available at the main entrance.

Since the Chobe River are too many elephants in a confined space, the
ecosystem suffers. They break down the trees and eat the leaves off.
The vegetation has little time to regenerate.

Besides elephants could observe visitors here other large animals such
as hippos, crocodiles, baboons, zebras, impala, water buffalo. Also
here are home to many rare bird species.

Conservationists are hoping that people understand the nature of the
entire region in one day as a valuable resource with which they earn
money and to secure jobs. These are the communities in Namibia already
has a legal claim to the land on which they live. Lodge operators must
pay fees for the use. "The fact that the locals for the first time to
get those rights, they have an incentive to protect nature," says
Philip Göltenboth, project manager for the Kaza-protected area of
WWF Germany. The prerequisite for this, however, that tourism is a
reliable source of income - even in areas previously little developed.
In Namibia, there are now more than 50 communities to earn the safaris
and big game hunts.

Göltenboth wants to tear down the Kaza area not only political and
economic borders, but open by the connection of large nature reserves
in the migrating animals of the savannah new habitats. "Currently
living in the Chobe National Park too many elephants in confined
spaces. Veterinary fences to keep them off from continuing to spread
to the North." First newly created corridors have already taken
advantage of the animals. Some of the originally native to Angola,
elephants have returned from the Chobe National Park in their home.
That the recovery in wilderness areas where there through decades of
poaching and habitat destruction are now barely rhinos, elephants and
big cats, is an important basis for the economic success of the
region. "No wild animals are no tourists," says Modise Kaza-chief.

The Victoria Falls, Chobe National Park and the Okavango Delta are
just some of the attractions in Southern Africa, which lie within the
boundaries Kaza. To visit them, but so far can provide only wealthy
tourists - or those who are very adventurous and dare for example,
with Unimogs and other off-road vehicles on their own in less
developed areas.

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