Day 6, 7 and 8. Nyanga.
With an early start the following day we travelled through the city of Mutari and replenished our snack boxes and camel packs.

We then travelled up through Penalonga towards Nyanga, a trip of about 270km through rural area with massive granite mountain outcrops to our home for the next 3 nights at Rhodes Nyanga Hotel.

Stopping for a swim in a river along the way.





Henry bought some local school children a Coke each, there were big smiles all round!
The Rhodes Nyanga Hotel is set in the heart of the Nyanga National Park, the finest trout fishing location in Zimbabwe. 

Sadly that night we made a group decision to only stay the one night as the food, service and constant power failures was not an enjoyable experience. Moving on about 30km down the road we found another fantastic hotel, Pine Tree Inn, which happened to be part of the same hotel chain as Inn on the Vumba. Here we received the best hospitality and meals with the main chef waiting on us and taking a lot pride in what he served up for us.
Luckily for the next two days we could explore the area without the weight of our luggage and how glad we were about this as the next two days rides were long, fast and technical as we were treated to the most amazing change of scenery all within an 80km radius of our hotel.



We started by visiting the spectacular Pungwe and Mtarazi falls then headed down into the Honde Valley dropping more than 1000m in just a few kilometers into one of the premier birding destinations in Zimbabwe, offering a wide range of species difficult to find in most other parts of the country, this fertile valley lies 850m above sea level and is one of the major tea producing areas of Zimbabwe.









We visited the beautiful Aberfoyle Lodge where we hit a few golf balls on their spectacular 9 hole course.Aberfoyle Lodge.



Another swim in another crystal clear mountain river.


Then I suffered the first puncture of the trip! 
The culprit!
We stopped for lunch at the famous Troutbeck Hotel then we proceeded to the well know Worlds View lookout point with an amazing view over a vast valley of rolling granite hills.

