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The World's Worst Vacation: Zimbabwe

Amid disease and starvation, a tourism industry clings on

By Jason Farago,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 10, 2009 10:32 AM CST

(Newser) – Zimbabwe's currency is worthless, its population is almost entirely unemployed, and a thuggish government uses intimidation, censorship, and torture to maintain an iron grip on power. Why would any tourist want to go there? For Jocelyn C. Zuckerman, writing in Gourmet, a trip to Robert...   Read full story »

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