Yes, you read correctly. Zimbabwe, the country with more billionaires in the world. And 
s ort to be so. Or would not for bread. Although not sell it now, I do at home is cheaper. But if you buy, would bar 1 trillion. Zimbabwe dollars, of course. American currency, about 20 cents. At least that was the change in the black market when the bank because today we can give you half or even less. Or twice. This is the madness of hyperinflation. You know the value of what I had yesterday, but do not know what will happen tomorrow. So no wonder what happened to us in the hotel bar. The official rate was Zambezi beer Z $ 5,000,000,000 or U.S. $ 3 but the same waiter we changed one of our dollars for 5 of its billions. That is, with money going to pay a beer in an instant and we could drink up three.
This is from the great solution President Mugabe to their economic problems was to start printing tickets and more tickets. The rise in prices has eaten all the country's wealth. Had the primary in March and since then walk at odds with each other, including threats of military coup and prohibitions on NGOs for supporting the opposition. And until you reach the elections for the presidency, the country without sweeping. Or out of gas, which is worse. So, not having the best restaurant in Victoria Falls, the Spurs Steakhouse, has no napkins. No oil, no bread, nor a lot of basic things. They hide their embarrassment by saying that the fault of the current left but the truth is that the hotels are empty and people walking down the street like lost souls. This was a tourist paradise with continuing inflow of foreign currency but now few dare to come. Prefer to go to the other side of the Falls, Zambia. The view is also good but only have a viewpoint. Here, however, we have been four brave. Some South African hard skin, Hristo Stoichkov and us. Imagine the time. All with waterproofs, soaked up and down and suddenly we find the Fury Gol. We hail him as crazy. "Hristo!". His answer as he is, clear and direct. "What?".
For this reason, it happens that the most beautiful place we have ever seen is a country where people flee like rabbits because they can not live in peace. They are Victoria Falls, the Western world discovered by Dr. Livingstone, I presume "(Dr. Livingstone, I presume). Lucky and the poet of the phrase, Stanley, because its two words made him go down in history for having found the lost explorer, instead of the guy who won the Belgian Congo to King Leopold, after leaving behind the more plunder 10 million dead. And that's already in the twentieth century. Is said quickly and soon forgotten.
s ort to be so. Or would not for bread. Although not sell it now, I do at home is cheaper. But if you buy, would bar 1 trillion. Zimbabwe dollars, of course. American currency, about 20 cents. At least that was the change in the black market when the bank because today we can give you half or even less. Or twice. This is the madness of hyperinflation. You know the value of what I had yesterday, but do not know what will happen tomorrow. So no wonder what happened to us in the hotel bar. The official rate was Zambezi beer Z $ 5,000,000,000 or U.S. $ 3 but the same waiter we changed one of our dollars for 5 of its billions. That is, with money going to pay a beer in an instant and we could drink up three. This is from the great solution President Mugabe to their economic problems was to start printing tickets and more tickets. The rise in prices has eaten all the country's wealth. Had the primary in March and since then walk at odds with each other, including threats of military coup and prohibitions on NGOs for supporting the opposition. And until you reach the elections for the presidency, the country without sweeping. Or out of gas, which is worse. So, not having the best restaurant in Victoria Falls, the Spurs Steakhouse, has no napkins. No oil, no bread, nor a lot of basic things. They hide their embarrassment by saying that the fault of the current left but the truth is that the hotels are empty and people walking down the street like lost souls. This was a tourist paradise with continuing inflow of foreign currency but now few dare to come. Prefer to go to the other side of the Falls, Zambia. The view is also good but only have a viewpoint. Here, however, we have been four brave. Some South African hard skin, Hristo Stoichkov and us. Imagine the time. All with waterproofs, soaked up and down and suddenly we find the Fury Gol. We hail him as crazy. "Hristo!". His answer as he is, clear and direct. "What?".
For this reason, it happens that the most beautiful place we have ever seen is a country where people flee like rabbits because they can not live in peace. They are Victoria Falls, the Western world discovered by Dr. Livingstone, I presume "(Dr. Livingstone, I presume). Lucky and the poet of the phrase, Stanley, because its two words made him go down in history for having found the lost explorer, instead of the guy who won the Belgian Congo to King Leopold, after leaving behind the more plunder 10 million dead. And that's already in the twentieth century. Is said quickly and soon forgotten.
This is Africa. On one side and see a marvel. You look at the other and you heart sink. The entrance to the Falls is 200 meters from the bridge linking Zimbabwe customs and Zambia. To the right of the road is the parking, left the box office. Sounds simple but it is crossing. In between, there is a very long line of trucks and trailers waiting for the paperwork to change the country. In the eyes of every economist, a senseless loss of time and money. In the eyes of English aid workers and missionaries working here, the major cause of spread of the worst of Africa's problems. AIDS. In these countries, the positive rate can easily reach 30 or 40%, even among the group of truckers who travel up and down Africa exceeds 85%. We
by without stop thinking they will appear here a few years and entered the Victoria Falls. Day are beautiful, perhaps less grandiose than Iguazú but much more intimate and wild. A rain climb and scale the walls of over a hundred meters to calarnos completely. It bounced off the water by the force of the fall flying over our heads coming to seem, at times, a real tropical storm. But this is nothing to the spectacle of the night. Today is full moon. Never see anything more beautiful. Whether we want to mourn. The rainbow formed by light of the moon plunges into the Zambezi River, while its banks crumbling away like a bottomless pit. The noise produced by the end of the vertical stroke are the roars of Mother Nature reminding us that she will always be the only wonder of the world. In ours, any day is the swallow as easily as the current follows its course as if nothing had happened.
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