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Guruguru Mountain

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For many years the cadet pilots in the RRAF (Royal Rhodesian Air Force) would climb it to paint their course number on the top. The tradition was that each course had to paint it twice the size of the previous course's number. For many years they could be read from miles away. It is under Chief
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It is seen as a great symbol by the locals; some worshippers go to the mountain to pray, and there is also a local church that baptizes its members in the water from the spring. Tradition holds that certain people can consult their ancestors at the mountain.
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eruption pushed lava up through a central core. It has a radius of over three kilometers and a height of over 500 meters. There is a spring of water at its summit. Little vegetation grows on the mountain except near the base.
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name, both mean "the biggest". It is by far the highest mountain in the
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19°56′48″S 30°05′32″E / 19.946726°S 30.092111°E / -19.946726; 30.092111

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