The view from TreeHouse 1 at the Miombo Lodge, Harare, Zimbabwe.

The view from TreeHouse 1 at the Miombo Lodge, Harare, Zimbabwe.

Submitted by: Andrew McDonagh.
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“A knock on the door of your hotel room before 7 in Europe means breakfast is being delivered. Uninvited knocks on the treehouse door on the edge of the Hwange Game Reserve are telling you that the waterhole a hundred metres from your door is about to be visited by water buffalo – one of Africa’s famous “Big 5″!

Miombo is a great lodge on the edge of one of the greatest nature reserves in Africa. Zimbabwe had a ferocious reputation at one stage but for an independent traveller interested in wildlife there are few better destinations.”

Miombo Lodge, Harare, Zimbabwe

The view from TreeHouse 1 at the Miombo Lodge, Harare, Zimbabwe. Comment: “A knock on the door of your hotel room before 7 in Europe means breakfast is being delivered. Uninvited knocks on the treehouse door on the edge of the Hwange Game Reserve are telling you that the waterhole a hundred metres from your door is about to be visited by water buffalo – one of Africa’s famous “Big 5″!