We walked into town for lunch.
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| The road entrance to Victoria Falls Hotel |
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| Victoria Falls Train Station |
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| How slow is "dead slow"? |
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| Former Kingdom Hotel (1999, now abandoned) has architecture inspired by the Great Zimbabwe Ruins of the lost Shona people |
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| Great Zimbabwe inspired tower (KSS) |
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| Victoria Falls Post Office |
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| Plenty of metal lawn art options |
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| The River Brewing Company where we had a fish 'n' chips lunch |
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| Monty Golden Ale |
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| This must be Monty |
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| Inside the brewery |
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| We somehow went in the back door of Elephant's Walk Shopping & Artist Village |
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| Our goal was the Jafuta Heritage Center Museum with its collection of artifacts of the local indigenous peoples including Shona, Ndebele, Tonga, and Lozi |
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| Ndebele knobkerries/clubs |
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| Tonga skirt made with root fibres |
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| Detail of the knotted root fibres |
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| Tonga funeral drums (KSS) |
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| Lozi drums, one with a zebra skin top |
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| Shona mbira/thumb piano |
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| Hwamanda/trumpet made from a kudu horn |
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| Garden courtyard of the Elephant's Walk Shopping & Artist Village |
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| Fruits and vegetables |
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| We exited through the main entrance |
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| Our closest rhino sighting (KSS) |
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| Kent with a very large rhino ... |
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| ... that was made with crushed cans |
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| This tree had knobs on it |
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| Acacia Nigrescens/Knob Thorn Tree |
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