The River Club
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Adrenaline Rush
So I'd have to say one of the proudest moments of my life has been completing the Zambezi River with Team Special! For any of you that don't know much about the Zambezi, it's a powerful river that runs though Zambia. The rapids are pretty gnarly and I don't use that term lightly. Class 5 and 6's, although they make you walk around the class 6 rapid …
Zambia - Planes, ferries and automobiles.
The last two days of our holiday was in Zambia at the River Club. It was two days of total relaxation and we were thrilled not to be getting up at 5:30am. Safari bootcamp was over. Our transit to the River Club was an adventure in itself. Botswana meets Zambia at one border crossing which is a ferry across the Zambezi river linking Kazungula with …
Famous Waterfalls at their low point
... the 'no yellow fever cert' to re-enter S Africa crisis but this is fixed locally for a 'small' fee at the hospital in town.
The whole safari has been excellent, helped by us only being 5 (& Marco and Sylvia being good company). Certainly you get more remote and move around more quickly by camping as well as getting all those night noises.
A little more control is now coming as we go independent and mainly self catering from ...
Best days of my life
... lion
- A young male leopard
- A male lion
- Two lions mating
As our guide old us, we have had a pretty amazing day seeing all of this. It was time to go to the camp though, so we drove with 60 km/h on the bumpy roads. We arrived when it was already dark. After a short briefing we could put our luggage in the tents and have a drink around the fire. Diner was rice with a really good chicken curry.
The biggest shock of the day ...
Falling for Vic Falls
... and some awesome fun on the rapids when we eventually got to Livingstone. We definitely hope to be able to meet up with them again soon.
Our original plan was to see if we could go all the way from Chipata to Lusaka, and immediately on to Livingstone in the same day. However, after an exhausting and hot day on a bus that, of course, stopped every 200 meters, we thought we might just chill out in Lusaka for the afternoon and catch the early bus the next ...
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