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- Take US$ lots of low value notes $1, $5 and $10.
- Don’t keep all your money in one place.
- Keep photocopies of your passport and travel documents in your luggage.
- Use a water purifier, I used a Steripen brilliant.
- If travelling make sure you have a knowledgeable guide.
- If fuel is not available at the service station, check the local pub etc. as there is a black market in fuel.
- If buying diesel buy in clear containers so you can check for contamination.
- Take your own toilet paper everywhere.
- Take tissues, a packet of wet wipes and hand sanitizer.
- Men buy a suitable hand bag for your travel papers and guard it well.
- Take a camera but don’t photograph police, army, government buildings etc.
- Take iodine in a small bottle, great antiseptic for cuts etc. and can be used in an emergency to purify water.
- Take a suitable power adaptor.
- Don’t rely on the power to charge your camera, phones etc. have a 12V backup.
- Don’t forget your personal medicines, headache tablets etc. and have a copy of a letter from your doctor to say the medicines are necessary.
- Get all the necessary vaccinations including rabies, the monkeys can be vicious, they tried to bite me a couple of times , our guide chased them away, but they turned on him and chased him back, was very funny to watch.
- Don’t put valuables into your checked luggage.
- If your carry-on luggage is over weight, especially with camera gear, wear a camera vest or coat with big pockets so you can put lens etc into the pockets if needed. Our carry on luggage was never weighed, I practiced making my camera backpack look very light.
- Make sure that you always have your car keys with you, do not put them in your checked luggage.
- Most important have travel insurance and read the fine print as I found a lot of policies don’t cover travel to Zimbabwe.
- Pay for travel with a Gold VISA card if you can as the free travel insurance can be better than your paid insurance (have both paid and VISA insurance).