Royal Solwezi Hotel & Villas

... j'ai voyagé un peu au Brésil tout en faisant un saut à Cuba pour le mariage de ma très chère amie Hélène. Ce résumé de vie de 4 mois de vie intense ne peut rendre hommage à tous ces amis(es) fantastiques rencontrés durant ce voyage qui demeurent dans mon coeur depuis et qui me donnent le goût de revenir très bientôt travailler en Amérique du Sud. Je rajouterai ultérieurement des photos de ce périple latin. Mais un grand rêve est en train de ...

... soon as we got there we got told about the hippos, elephants, baboons and of course crocodiles that come into the camp. We could see plenty of hippos in the water, and a couple of big crocs, but didn't see any on land until the last night. Hippos usually spend all day in the water to escape the heat. We did a couple of drives into the national park, the morning one we saw lots of elephants, some ...

I really will get to the Cape Town blog, but some how what has been going on in everyday life, rather than vacation life, has been much more interesting for me to write about. I was contemplating what exactly to do for my 26th birthday, was just going 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 ...

... or eat a motherly prepared meal. There ARE dedicated teachers and administrators and poorly constructed rooms used as temporary classrooms.. Carrie and I were lucky enough to do a few art classes with the "preschoolers". Just to give them a crayon and some paper and see their proud little faces with the finished product was enough to break my heart (thank you to all those who sent over the package, the kids loved it!!). The problems ...

... brown ale was both tasty and on-hand. Extra Extra: If any caterpillar gourmets out there beg to differ and can supply better adjectives or recipes, please do so. (Mine came with a tomato sauce; some prefer them fried until they are crunchy, not soft, and come to resemble cheese puffs.)

The highway north from Lusaka to Ndola, Kitwe and other cities on the Copperbelt is smoothly tarred and pot-hole free. Termite mounds tower up in the fields beside the road, some as high as telephone poles, coloured red, yellow, brown or white by the tones of earth dug up by the ants. Between small towns roadside huts offer watermelons here, charcoal there, gourds fashioned into water vessels, sweet potatoes. "This is the area for honey," says the driver, Bwalya, as we ...

We went to visit rescued chimps in the wilderness of Zambia http://www.chimfunshi.org.za/