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 The Chinhoyi (Sinoia) caves are on a 1.5-hour drive from the capital city, Harare. It is a small national park nowadays. There are 3 small accessible cave with water in it. There are connected with each other by an underground river. The local people used the caves as a shelter for years.

Via Bulawayo we drove westwards in 2 days to the caves. We overnight in Bulawayo and visit the Khami ruins. These ruins are smaller than Great Zimbabwe but are from the same time period and made partly by the same people. When Great Zimbabwe collapsed because of overcrowding and a lack of food some people left and looked for a place to build a new city. They did at Khami.
We bought a toy tractor made of garbage.  We paid 7 US$; they man worked on it for a week. This was really “fair trade”.
	At Sinoia we slept in the Caves Motel. I wouldn’t recommend it to my friend. It wasn’t clean and it was old. The food was terrible and the kitchen… you wouldn’t want to know. But the personnel were very friendly. We slept in our own sleeping bags, that says enough.
The caves are very small but beautiful. The water is deep bleu and crystal-clear. A nice stopover on a long journey.		Next we went to Umfurudzi Park.

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