I also visited Zimb for a few weeks in college. (For reference I am a white female American) I was about an hour outside of Harare and then went up to Vic Falls. Amazing place! Weirdly enough best Chinese broccoli I ever ate was in Zimbabwe lol. The markets in both Harare and Vic Falls are still to this day one of the best things I've ever experienced.
I remember talking to a couple, the husband was Zimb and the mother was Cuban. They chose to live in Zimbabwe because even at it's worst it was better than Cuba. But I also heard many many horror stories. I stayed with a family in Harare for a few days and their home was one of the old mansions, he was very high up in the government at one point, but you could tell the entire home was falling apart because they had no money. The home was robbed after we left, we suspect it was because people saw Americans were staying there and knew we had money on us. When I went Mugabe was still in power, and we didn't dare to even speak his name.
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I also visited Zimb for a few weeks in college. (For reference I am a white female American) I was about an hour outside of Harare and then went up to Vic Falls. Amazing place! Weirdly enough best Chinese broccoli I ever ate was in Zimbabwe lol. The markets in both Harare and Vic Falls are still to this day one of the best things I've ever experienced.
I remember talking to a couple, the husband was Zimb and the mother was Cuban. They chose to live in Zimbabwe because even at it's worst it was better than Cuba. But I also heard many many horror stories. I stayed with a family in Harare for a few days and their home was one of the old mansions, he was very high up in the government at one point, but you could tell the entire home was falling apart because they had no money. The home was robbed after we left, we suspect it was because people saw Americans were staying there and knew we had money on us. When I went Mugabe was still in power, and we didn't dare to even speak his name.
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