Parked at Mai Joy Matema’s cabbage emporium on the tar below Matema and headed north on the rough dirt road through the terraced fields (makondiwa – but this is a very local word I think). It looks green here because of its location, on the side of a hill, with some irrigation, but the crops are not as they should be even in this – an assuredly wet area of Zim.

I knew roughly where I wanted to go so took some advice as to paths coming off the track and wound my way to the Maarira homestead from where I was guided by Mai Maarira herself to this spectacular viewpoint 1.3km further on, right at the edge of the high ground.