ChaChaCha Backpackers Lusaka

Go to the following link for more photos to go with this section - you may need to cut and paste it into your browser to get it to work: http://picasaweb.google.com/tree2222/Za mbiaLusaka So we arrived at the bus station at 5.30am and were pleasantly surprised that the bus actually left at 6.30am.....that's more or less on time by African standards!! The Zambia-Botswana 'Luxury' bus wasn't really what I'd call luxury, it was the usual 5 child-sized seats across and the narrowest aisle, the sa...

Had a great night's sleep in Chachacha backpackers. On Monday, we found some local markets and wandered around. Both bought some lovely material and had yummy samoosas for lunch. Caught the last bus to Livingstone (took 6 hours) and walked into the gorgeous Fawlty Towers Backpackers at 8pm that night. Again, a fantastic place to stay - big rooms, yummy breakfasts (albeit not included), lovely pool and gardens and attached a restaurant/bar. A good choice for the next few nights.

Wel,l I only saw Lusaka in the dark, so I shall have to back and see it again. Zambia seemed like quite a well organised place.
I rose at 5am and flew from Dar es Salaam to Johannesburg. I really enjoyed a few hours at J'burg airport- sad, I know, but I hadn't had a european style lunch with a glass of red SA wine, followed by a well made Cappuchino for a very long time. It was very cold in Johannesburg, not that I went outside apart from walking across the tarmac. On to Lusaka, where it ...

We departed Dar es Salaam on Friday at 1pm. We caught the Tazara train, which was to take 48hours. We were first class sharing with two Africans, one we called cowboy man because he wore a cowboy hat and thought he was American. The other guy was ok. We went in shifts for dinner, the menu was;

Chicken
Beef
Rice
Chips
chicken and rice*
chicken and chips*
beef and rice*
beef and chips*
rice and chips
chips and rice
rice and rice
chips and chips*
chick...

After Livingstone we took a coach to Lusaka the capital. We checked into Chachacha backpackers in Lusaka after a day on the bus and they cooked us a great dinner. The next morning we walked into the town center to change some travellers checks and had many problems since we didn't have the sales receipt on us - something that you never need in Asia, and we hadn't needed before. So we walked around very hungry for too long and then changed the small amount of US $ we had in our pockets so we c...

As far as the quiz from my last entry I'm very disappointed in the lack of participation on your part. I used to have a better success rate with my students turning in their homework! Not that there was much competition, but my Mom won with 10 correct answers. But I think she cheated so I'm not sure if she'll get the prize. The following are some of the answers you gave that I feel I need to correct...

-"hello" in Hindi is not "shalom" and it's not handing over a stick of deodorant
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Decided I'd best take a cab back to the bus station, it got me there for 5:45am, unfortunately my minibus took a while to fill up so we didn't get on the road until 7:30. We were trying to get the 10am bus on the Zambia side of the border to Lusaka, but this wasn't looking now. I met a nice guy on this minibus who had left from Blantyre at 1am the same morning and was trying to get back to Lusaka to visit his family for Easter. As with all the border crossings I'd negotiated so far, it was de...

Hi, We've all finished teaching , had leaving party at school which was cute and fun almost cried when the headmaster gave his little speech and the teachers said really 'from the bottom of my heart' type thing that we've been the best group. i think huge part of this ahs been Johns and Wilfs organisation of the donation money they've been super good about finding out what is needed and how mjuch etc. So now we have left Malawi and had a supposed 8hour bus journey from Lilongwe to Lusaka (cap...