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June 26, 1998 Friday - Today we pedaled to Great Zimbabwe Ruins where I had 2 nice meals at the hotel and wrote postcards. We rode by a dam which made electricity and ironically it was only 3 km from the school that had no electricity. I think getting electricity is as much a political problem as a technical problem. We then left our bikes on the side of the road and saw a cave painting. When we got back to the road our bikes were still there. I was a little worried but it was ok. We bought some beads from the school children. These were seed beads. The children used this money to pay their tuition. Zimbabwe is technically socialist but all schools cost money. The poorest state run school costs 250 Zim dollars a semester with some of the better ones like Cyrene Mission School ( Private) charging 3000 Zim Dollars a semester. This evening we are staying at a nice chalet in Lake Kyle. Tomorrow we will see the ruins in detail. Today we just saw them from the outside. There are beautiful peacocks and monkeys at the chalet. I wanted to swim in the pool but it was NOT heated. I stuck my thighs in for a minute and as they started to numb, I said no way. There was not anybody else swimming either. ** Note a keen observer will see that I put the cave painting in the previous day. Will leave it that way.
