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Zimbabwe

3 places
Named for a vast medieval stone city its own people built, Zimbabwe shares one of the world's greatest waterfalls and holds superb wildlife, behind decades of economic ruin it is slowly climbing out of.

The North (Victoria Falls & Hwange)2 places

Hwange National ParkNature · ●●●○○Zimbabwe's largest game reserve, a vast wilderness of teak forest and grassland famous for its enormous elephant herds…
Victoria FallsNature · ●●●○○The Zambezi crashing over a kilometre-and-a-half-wide cliff into a narrow gorge, throwing up a column of spray visible…

The South (Great Zimbabwe & Matobo)1 place

Great ZimbabwePoint · ●●●●○The largest ancient stone structure in sub-Saharan Africa, the ruined capital of a powerful medieval kingdom, its great…