Zimbabwe - Meat Feast

The phrase 'cash is king' is really true here in Victoria Falls. There is no back-up of an ATM or a credit card should you run out of cash. It has to be cash and it has to be a hard currency such as USD/GBP/EUR/ZAR. The ZIM$ is no good at all and it's illegal for tourists to use. Fat lot of good this was when trying to buy a bottle of water at the local supermarket for ZIM$14,000 when they only take the local currency. This is similar in price to a loaf of bread. The problem is that ATMs are limited to ZIM$5,000 per day so it can take three days to get enough cash to buy a loaf....by which time it's probably gone up in price. I'm sure this explains the long queues at the Barclays ATM in town rather than any dispersions on the quality of service. The supermarket itself did seem to have a fair amount of stock even though it was completely devoid of any customers. It also seemed to have enough Heinz canned tomato puree to feed the whole continent.Luckily, a few souvenir notes can be obtained on the black market and a whole USD$1 managed to procure 4 ZIM$100bn notes one dark night.

At the Eating House of Boma, finally, a place full of people. OK -they're all tourists and it's a 'themed' place with African dancers and drummers. But what a meat feast on offer. Quite a few game meats could be ticked off at the buffet dinner. Ostrich, Crocodile, Buffalo, Warthog, Boar, Impala, Kudu, and Mopani worms. The worms weren't really worth the hype (or the certificate proving I had even them). Just seemed to be like overcooked and crunchy pieces of biltong.

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