Chrismar Hotel Livingstone

I've been enjoying relaxing the last couple of days. On Saturday, I walked around Livingstone a bit and confirmed my impression that it is more of a town than a city. My guide book says that 140,000 live here, including in all the surrounding townships, but it feels even smaller than that here in the center where I'm staying. Right now the main street and sidewalks through the center of town are ripped up as part of an improvement ...

... we had another little walk onto the bridge ..........it looked terrifying as i peered over the edge , even more terrifyin than before .............it must have been somebody else that just jumped ........i wasnt still wasnt convinced that i could do that !!<br><br>I was buzzing in the cab back to the hostel <br>I was buzzing all that night in the hostel , and all the next day (today!)<br><br>An amazing dose of natural high with a large spoonfull of self accomplishment <br><br>A buzz thats ...

... Africa before?' Well, yes, I had been to Egypt, the response to that - that doesn't count, this is REAL Africa!, and I had a feeling it was!<br>The next day was a free day, so the first item on the agenda was a flight over the falls, and yes, I did wonder what the hell I was doing getting on another aircraft right after spending roughly 30 hours either inside or around them. But it was only a 15 minute helicopter ...

... that i should go and see the owners upstairs........in the office upstairs i was greeted by a friendly white local Namibian.............she proceeded to explain ....that she did know where this Campsite was , but She herself owned a farm that took in guests............they had a pet Lion , Ostriches, 2 Cheetahs.........and beautiful grounds...........10 minutes later i was getting my free ride to the farm in the back of the meat van ..............<br>I spent 3 nights there , i got to ...

... up last we volunteered to go with another group. The seven left were four girls: Toni, Lola, Francine, and Claire, and three guys: Lance, Mark, and Matt. The guys though had decided to RiverBoard for half the day which left only the girls left in the raft when they were doing their Riverboarding, and Toni and Lola were both pretty scared and nervous. We felt really bad for them but we couldn&#8217;t exactly nominate two of the guys to switch ...

... they were "the bad guys" as Lance put it, they didn&#8217;t seem to be overly concerned with it.<br><br>When we arrived to the campsite we discovered it was huge and it had grass! Heini gave us a tour that ended in a small pavilion where we watched a video of all the activities we could do while in Livingston. They ranged from bungee jumps, to white water rafting, to a walk with lions, to an elephant walk, and on and on ...

... the rainbow island<br>the falls differ in dry season and wet, i saw them in the dry so the pictures you see with pure white cover of water was not actually there yesterday when we saw them<br>but im you go acorss to the zimbabwer side you can still se the whole falls in full glory<br>a girl on tour named helen saw the falls in May when she was volunteering and there the falls were in full glory in Zambia<br>it varies around the year<br><br>Today was one of the first ever ...

We are now in Livingstone, Zambia relaxing after having an amazing week. The new truck is great, lovely people and the driver and tour leader are friendly and helpful which is a very pleasant change. From Jo'burg we drove up to the Delta were I headed into on the second day of the trip (Ben had already done this 2 years ago so opted to stay at camp), it was just spectacular. We got 3 hr truck ride in to the ...

... mass chaos trying. We'll see.<br><br>Did some brick-laying for my afternoon project today. It was building the same school I worked on Monday. Once I got used to the very rickety scaffolding I was okay. The local men we were working with thought I was funny at first because they could tell I was nervous. We all laughed.<br><br>We had some traditional Zimbabwe dancers come to ...

... but it broke by the time we left Botswana a few days later)<br><br>- Big 5 carving &#8211; heavy but good quality; cost $15 + Zimbabwe flag + Sacramento Marathon 2001 t-shirt (also broke in a couple of small places within a few days)<br><br>At 1:30 we got picked up by Sherwater for two more activities: Walking with Lions and Elephant Back Safari at Victoria Falls private game reserve. Our lion encounter was not as ideal as the cheetah walk at Tenikwa ...