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| Nyangani Mountain Eastern Highlands Zimbabwe |
It is the highest mountain in Zimbabwe standing at 2.592 meters (8.504 ft) and is in the Nyanga National Park North West of the Manicaland Provincial Capital and Eastern Border City of Mutare.
Africa's second longest waterfall Mutarazi Falls is in Nyangani Mountain.
Nyangani mountain is mostly covered by mist throughout the year and the vegetation is evergreen along the slopes of the mountain.
The mountains annual rainfall is 2200 mm during the warm and rainy summers and it gets cold and dry winters from May -August.
Mysteries of Nyangani Mountain
A lot of mysteries have happened in Nyangani Mountain most of them involving the disappearence of tourists and locals leading to most historians and traditionalists associating the disappearances with some mythical explanations of sacredness of the holy mountain .
The Traditional Chiefs of Nyanga mainly Chief Tangwena, Chief Saunyama and Chief Katerere have been asked to perform some traditional ancestor appeasing rituals in many cases where tourists who visit the mountains goes missing without trace.
In 1981 a former Zimbabwean top government official Tichaendepi Masaya lost his 2 little daughters in that mountain and they have not been found up to this day.
Another mysterious disapperance is of an 8 year old white tourist Robert Ackhurst who vanished in that mountain never to be seen again.
Zayd Dada a mountain hiker of Asian descent also mysteriously disappeared he proceeded with the hike when his wife and another couple gave up the hike halfway.
Mysterious disappearances in the mountain are real but there is a huge debate among people from different beliefs
Some traditionalists thinks that there is a vindictive spiritual presence on the mountain that makes those who mocks the ancestors or say or do certain things that angers them to disappear.
Some local people say that there is a "strange colourful snake" a smoldering clay pot with no fire burning around it that needs to be ignored when you see them as showing signs of shock or pointing at the mystery leads to your forever vanishing.
Other group believes that since Nyangani Mountain is home to a lot of leopards,venomous snakes and other dangerous wild animals those who disappeared could be victims of such.
Also there are a lot of slippery areas that could see tourists slipping into deep places after one single stepping mistake.
Rock boulders also fall from the mountain summit and roll down to the foot which may result in fatalities if they are to meet human beings or animals during the process.
