Just 15 kilometres from Mutare, the capital of Manicaland province, rise the rounded granite domes of the Bvumba, the Eastern Highlands' most popular birding destination. Humid air rising up from the warm Mozambican lowlands condenses around this massif to produce the mubvumbi, Shona for 'persistent drizzle', afterwhich it is named. In this lower altitude woodland, Barred Owl, Whyte's Barbet, Lesser and Sharp-billed honeyguides, Little Spotted Woodpecker, Miombo Grey, Rufous-bellied and Grey Penduline tits, Spotted Creeper, Miombo Rock Thrush, African Moustached and Red-winged warblers, Striped, Tree and Wood pipits, Western Violet-backed Sunbird, East African Swee and Cabanis' Bunting may be seen. The moister slopes higher up are cloaked in montane forest. The idyllic Bvumba Botanical Gardens, where you are likely to be welcomed by a troop of samango monkeys gambolling on the lawns, is the place to go if camping. Everywhere, paths plunge into the gloomy interior of forest patches that are unusually rich in birds.