A Saturday in Harare

Saturday we spent the day with the Sterlings and the Mayalas. The Mayalas are going home to the Congo this week, and we will miss them. We went to a Lion & Cheetah park that is just outside of Harare. There weren't any cheetahs (the guide said they all died of anthrax), but there were over 30 lions, and they were magnificent to watch! We had one scary moment when a whole pride started to run towards our car, and the car was having some trouble starting (you just never know...) but it all worked out well. We even got to play with some lion cubs! We went out for lunch (and I did manage to eat some food!) and then went to a couple films at the Zimbabwe International Film Festival. The first one was a Sudanese movie called Fellow Strangers. It was subtitled, but we couldn't read the subtitles because they were written in white lettering (and most people were wearing white). The music seemed quite dramatic though. The second movie was amazing - The Lives of Others (about the secret service in East Germany). Seeing the movie in this context was quite interesting...