Kanyemba Lodge Lusaka

... and three ice cream bowls later, the bus finally decided to pull away from the station.

The next 8 hours were among some of the worst travel hours of the trip. Sarah spent her time reading a very long book. The girl next to her felt it was appropriate to ask her every hour if she was done with the book so she could read it. Sarah did not finish the book on the bus ride, and the girl was very disappointed she did not get a free book. Lindsey ...

Eureka Camp, Lusaka 8th August 2009

We decide to be on our way early as we need to do shopping and banking in Lusaka, so we hit the road at 7.15am. As we go down the farm driveway we are waved down by one of the workers, he too is going to Lusaka so we give him a lift; he is extremely grateful and thanks us many times. The weather is cloudy and cool, and the scenery is not very inspiring. The plus sign is that the ...

Hi everyone, Yesterday was a lovely day at the House of Martha. The Ingebolo was opened. This is a special rooms for the older girls to learn womanly ways. THis was a project started by some other Americans associated with Amway in Michigan. We asked them if we could help and they needed mattresses so the girls didnt have to take the older mattresses from the rooms they shared with the 40 other little ones ...

... sure why I called this blog "Around the world in ~365 days". I knew I wasn't going all the way around the world, only halfway around the world. And I didn't even make it the full 365 days, only 352 days. But the countries I've visited and the cultures I've experienced are of a completely different world than the one in which you and I live. The cultures I've lived in for the past year believe in arranged marriages, dowries, sacred cows, female genital mutilation, lip ...

... the grass less than 2 metres from us was the leopard where it stayed for about a minute or two before finally departing - this experience certainly made my day! On the way back we saw a mother hippo & small (by comparison) baby feeding in the long grass. We arranged to go on a boat trip tomorrow afternoon and Martin said if we liked he would pick us up at about 7am in the morning for a quick drive if the lion was still around. The fire was still going so hot chocolate and a ...

... the police road checks with his record being 7 in one day so we decided to make our passports & copy of the vehicle registration documents handy just in case. Just as we left town we were stopped and asked to produce our insurance document and as I went to hand over the bundle of papers I'd got at the border he said 'that's fine I can see it' and didn't even examine it and we were off - all very pleasant and it made a nice change not to be fined for something! We ...

... and thinking of witty ways to write things now so i'm off to buy some shiz from the market. Just quickly, were off to vic falls, livingstone, tomorrow morn staying in Jolly boys for 5 nuits as we are meeting a few people there... also saw Sophie A-C yesterday and today soo randomly at teh lodge, Cha Cha Cha that we are staying at...bizarre but very cool. Hope all is well at home and away! Loads of shnogs to all. adios Nicky xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

... There is a surprisingly fun nightlife here and some good restaurants and all in all its really a relaxing and pleasant place. Went for a long walk today in the sun with a friend, did some reading ... Actually probably the most exciting part about my weekend was that I got a cleaning lady. I've never had one before, and felt kind of weird doing it, but one of the guards brought his wife over to my house yesterday and asked if I had thing ...

... There was lots of laughter and it was a pleasant and memorable evening. There were mosquitoes biting at dusk and this is a malarial area, so after the first bites the bug spray came out. After dinner, the two South African pastors, Jim Franks and I had an interesting chat with the three men here from Zimbabwe. We ask about the economic problems the cholera outbreaks and also the situation of the Church members in that troubled ...

... fatigue so he had gone to a practitioner of modern, Western medicine who diagnosed him with the illness and gave him some tablets to take. It would be genuinely fascinating to see if Dr. Mulonde’s more traditional methods would lead her to the same conclusion.

She invited him to join her in the centre of the room, so he hoisted himself up and walked over. She held both of his hands for a short while and closed her eyes. A few moments later she released his hands and told him ...