Nyambadwe Motel Chirundu

... that) $20 USD for 10 liters. The BMW seemed to run with the stuff. I think that is was blended with kerosene because it costs bugger all. <br>There is a fuel shortage here in Zambia. Not much petrol so hopefully we can sort out petrol tomorrow. We are off to South luangwa national park tomorrow. Will split the day and camp half way because the trip is about 600 ks <br> All good<br> Cheers miles

Heading to Lusaka now and the road is being replaced (thanks very much to the Chinese Government) thus numerous detours which made a long trip even longer.. we came across a place called Moorings Camp and it is great in the middle of nowhere green grass and a happy array of puppy dogs. Interestingly there turned out to be a number of these farms where you can kind of camp on the front lawn of the farm house, very nice but a bit on the smelly side. We think they were farming pigs.

Zambezi Airways got us safely from Johannesburg, South Africa to Lusaka, Zambia. We were scheduled to meet our safari group on August 28th in Livingstone, Zambia. We decided to give ourselves a few extra travel days because we have not had good success with the flights thus far on the trip. Flights into Livingstone were about $100 more expensive so we decided to fly to Lusaka and then take a bus to Livingstone. Bad decision. <br><br>We took a taxi cab ...

<br> Monday 24th August. We drove on through the villages and arrived at the capital of Zambia the town of Lusaka. We stayed at Eureka camp. This camp is attached to a game reserve (private) where we drove in to see giraffe and zebras and after setting up camp we walked ...

... quietly grazing, three ton hippo bull on the river bank just above us that had been such a fantastic photo opportunity seconds before, has suddenly had a mood change. A bad mood change! He starts charging towards the water. I should add that the river bank is about 2 meters high here (providing us with our false sense of security). Surly such a big, fat and ungainly animal will not just vault into the water and onto our canoe&#8230;surly not&#8230;..<br><br>I ...

DAYS 4 TO 11 These days were spent in Mana Pools National Park. Mana covers a small geographical area and there are not many roads on which to do game drives. The result is one of the most relaxing holidays one can imagine. Mana is one of only a few parks where one can freely walk where one pleases. This can be very exciting as Mana is most definitely Big Five terrain... We often drove out to a water hole where we had breakfast or lunch. Sitting ...

... among Zambians. Not least the miners in the Copperbelt. Their opposition to the scheme was mete with an iron fist by the determined Malvern, who threatened to dump an export charge of £50 per tonne on copper if they didn&#8217;t support the switch to Kariba. This meant that an annual export of 400,000 tonnes of copper would induce a whopping £20 million export fee; the miners were duly silenced.<br><br>The government did all it could to justify the switch, although attempts to defend ...

... Zambia and Zimbabwe. It was a beautiful getaway and we really appreciated the fresh - but extremely hot - air. Lusaka is dry and is at a higher elevation, so it is slightly cooler than other parts of Zambia. It was 40 degrees and humid at the lodge. We did a half day fishing trip, although Rebecca was the only one that actually fished while the rest of us just ...

... of clothes, no extra undies, .... no no no! But I had my carry-on. Fortunate for me this was before the liquid ban and I had my malaria meds, shampoo, contact solution, etc in my carry-on along with ONE change of clothes and undies. The ticket agent in the little booth informed me that about 8 passengers from that plane were missing luggage, which was not put on the plane at Heathrow. It would be sent on another plane and delivered out to where I ...

The final stop on the overland truck tour was Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is a bit sketchy right now, and we saw the effects of that immediately. When we first arrived, our guide told us he would arrange for us to exchange money. We assumed he had an arrangement with the bank--until he came back and said, "OK, we can't change money now because there are too many police around, so we'll do it after lunch." Hmmm...Zimbabwean jail, anyone? But it's hard to resist the black ...