Summary
The tourists have fled in panic, leaving the Zambezi River to Peter Godwin and the hippos
Victoria Falls in the Nineties had all the raucous feel of a frontier souk simultaneously servicing different fantasies - from the top-dollar Edwardian silver-service safaristas in their designer khakis, reliving the glory days of the African Raj in a town that still bears the name most redolent of the British Empire, to Gen X jungle junkies in neoprene, Velcro and kikois.See the full content of this document
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Zimbabwe ; Holidays in Hell
The Falls remain Zimbabwe's dominant tourist attraction, but the last time I ventured into the usually riotous town, the place was ominously quiet. A few days before, militants from the ruling party marched through singing liberation songs, scaring the tourists and beating up opposition supporters.
As I turned into the...See the full content of this document
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