Country Info
- Lusaka
- Capital
- Kwacha (ZMK)
- Currency
- 9,770,199
- Population
- ZM
- Country Code
Zambia Slideshow
Zambia
Travel Blogs from Zambia
failing ferry engines and flaring customs guards
... . 7:20 End: Livingston, ZAM. 15:00 Distance Traveled: 256 km Road Conditions: sandy corrugated ruts, gravel, good tar. In Zambia, surprisingly very good so far. Temperature: a hot day made hotter by hot tempered border guards. No need for sleeping bag ...
Laugh or cry............You got to laugh!!!
Last night we could not hold back the laughter, tears rolling down the face, yet we were absolutely filthy, tired, hungry and completely spent. But it was a good way to end a long hot day... The day actually started really well, we camped at this amazing ...
A houseboat on Lake Kariba
From Luanga, we passed through Lusaka. Due to our brilliant timing we managed to be caught up in the funeral procession for the recently deceased Zambian President. For those of you that don't know, the much loved Zambian President passed ...
Boulot
... entre le Botswana et la Zambie est saisissant. La pauvreté s'installe, les animaux disparaissent, la végétation apparait. The change between Botswana and Zambia is amazing. Poverty is every where, the wild life is gone, the vegetation ...
Day 26 - Thursday, 7 December, 2006
I've been waiting for this day for a very long time! It's the last official teaching day. It's finally here. Today is a good day! To add insult to the torture they have already put us through, they made us get up before 5:00 am ...
End of Livingstone
Hey, This is the last internt i will have for a while so just a quick update. We went white water rafting on the mighty zambeze river yesterday. Was absoluitely sweet as!! We went over some of the biggest rapids in thew world and got thrown ...
Made the front page in Namibia
I have a happy update to add onto my previous blog about being robbed in Namibia. Two weeks after the incident, I received notice that some of my things had been found in a river in Windhoek. Among the things that were found were my passport, ...
111 metres is a long way down...
Hello, thought I'd better finally write something - not my favourite thing in the world, but we are having a great time and it will be nice to relive it when we get home! As we (Alice) haven't updated for a while, I'll start with last week. The ...
2nd volunteer project
I'm at my second lion project, run by the African Lion and Environmental Research Trust and located in the Mosi o Tunya National Park in Livingstone. We go on walks with the lions each day, enabling them to become familiar and comfortable with the ...
03/08/09
... 8 seater on our way to Zambia and the lower Zambezi so here we go again and after 90 min of uneventful flying we did arrive in Zambia, to be precise Mfwe international airport LOL. We got off the plane and went to pay our entry fee... just like in a park. ...
04/08/09
Today is safari all over again, we went on a game drive but not as early as we had the habit to. We saw some of the famous baobabs as far as tree go they are truly huge but useless and it is no wonder that they are still around. You cannot even use the ...
Victoria Falls
We started off our African Vacation with some blood pumping activites of helicopter flights, swiming over falls, and going river ...
on the road again
Dear everyone, I was planning on writing an official prayer letter before leaving, but i've just been too busy! I've been a real slacker in terms of mass communication...i've just never been a big fan. This is my last week of work and then I'm out of ...
Water, water, and more water.
Zambia is pretty much the opposite of Namibia. Zambia is lush, green, and full of forest. Namibia is a dry desert. Livingstone is right on the border of Zimbabwe and Zambia and is the adventure-seekers hub of Zambia. Victoria Falls is the major ...
I must be mad.....
Rachel and I decided to take our lives into our own hands and crossed over to Zambia two days running. There we took part in the 'Adrenaline day' where we did crazy things such as abseiling, ziplining, rap-jumping (abseiling forwards - very scary) and a ...
Vic Falls
Ok so i have made it to Victoria Falls by Livingston Zambia. But before we talk about that i will go back and fill in some of what i did on the way here. After Swakupmund were i left the last entry... Well on the way though Namibia we also ...
Zamtastic Birthday Refugee Style
... to go have dinner and drinks with friends when I was invited to go with some friends to visit a Meheba Refugee Settlement in Northern Zambia. I had actually been really interested in visiting a refugee camp and seeing that part of Zambia, so last minute I ...
Zamlife
... etc. I was shopping for kleenex today at the local Shoprite and discovered one more manifestation of gender inequality in Zambia. There were 3 or 4 different brands of kleenex, one of which was called Tough Care - For Men. It's irritating ...
Mfuwe - Lusaka
... 90 minute flight to Lusaka was smooth. On arrival in Lusaka, I was again met by Timothy and another collegue from World Vision Zambia and taken to the Inter-Continental Hotel. Nyunda, the staff member escorting me to Kawambwa the following day, was to ...
Really WILD Wildlife!!!
... us to help. She is awesome! The flight was very long (15 hours or more) to Johannesburg, then we had to fly to Livingstone, Zambia (another 2 hours), then get on a bush plane to Chiawa Camp (another 2 hours), so by the time we got there we were pretty ...
Yep it was Hot
By now we were running out of most stuff, food, cigs and batteries for the tent fan so temper(s) were a bit frayed. Finally hit the bitumen and were both very pleased. Especially Darren found some cigarettes. Resigning our selves to a night in a border ...
Newsflash!!! New Home!
Just a quick bulletin to share the joy that we are no longer homeless/eternal backpackers. Mrs Mazunda (aka Mrs Muzungu) finally pulled through (with a lot of help from dear Benson) and found us a room in the nurses block which is actually within the ...
Zambia
... to swim in the water again and played a lot of volleyball on the beach. Then we made our way down to Livingstone, Zambia. It was a couple of really long driving days but seeing Victoria Falls is worth it. The falls are amazing!!! Niagra Falls doesn't ...
South Luangwa National Park
This morning, I was woken at 0500hrs and after a breakfast, we went for our morning game drive until 1000hrs. We saw more antelopes, elephants, giraffes, zebra and lots of birds. Again, brunch was served at 1100hrs and afterwards, siesta until 1530hrs. ...
Long drives and booze cruises!
We had to do 2 monster dirves to get to the boarder between Zambia and Zimbabwe where we spent one night on the Zambian side to do a sunset cruise on the Zambezi river. We basically got a visa waiver on the boarder if we agreed to do ...
Summer Camp/Merry Christmas
Hey All! It's been a while! Technology is not very reliable here.....either the internet isn't working, or our phone line isn't working, or the power is out! Things have been ridiculously busy here! I just got back from camp with over 100 highschool ...
Livingstone to Lusaka
... , including my sister Libby. Today's journey was a 600km drive to Lusaka. Not much to see along the way in Zambia for the next couple of days - previously the tours travelled through Zimbabwe to Malawi, as there was plenty to see and ...
An Experience of a Lifetime
White Water Rafting- This was definitly an experince of a lifetime! The Zambezi is one of the roughest rivers in the world to raft. It is forsure an extreme rafting experience. Most of the rapids are class 4 and 5. I have been ...
The Mighty Zambezi Earns Our Respect
I have a new found appreciation for air. Fresh, flower-scented or fetid - let me have it! However lovely the Zambezi River, feeling pressed to take it a lungful of it, I better understood why it is known as the Mighty Zambezi. Let me be more direct: ...
Day 27 - Friday, 8 December, 2006
My 24th birthday. Spent in beautiful Kovulum, Kerala. What more could I ask for? I am so grateful that my birthday has fallen on a Friday because the thought of spending such a special day in the ashram with a gruelling schedule is too ...