Fastjet doubles flights to Bulawayo
Fastjet has increased its service between Johannesburg and Bulawayo from one to two flights daily, and Travel News was a guest on the inaugural early-morning flight on October 30, followed by a tour of the scenic Zimbabwean city.
Bulawayo has many sites of historic and natural interest. Just outside the city lies the Rhodes Matobo National Park.
Matobo, an area of granite domes and wooded valleys, is home to some not-to-be-missed sightseeing. The Matobo Hills, a group of distinctive hilly rock formations formed by volcanic activity over two billion years ago, was given Unesco World Heritage Site status in 2003. The park has over 3 000 registered rock art sites, of which three caves, Bambata, Nswatugi and Pomogwe, allow visitors to view paintings of elephants, giraffes, buck and much more. Malindidzimu Hill, or World’s View, holds significant historic importance as the resting place of Cecil John Rhodes and other early white settlers. It is also the home of a pre-colonial spiritual oracle among the Ndebele and Shona people. The Rhino Community Centre asks visitors for donations to preserve the park’s rhino population, which was restored between the 1960s and 1990s and resides in a designated area in the west of the park.
Source: Travel News