Lusaka Hotels - Reviews and Rates

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...

This morning I was up at 06:00 so I'd have time to finish up and print some notes that I would need for my seminar presentations in Zambia and later in Johannesburg. Arriving back at the airport by shuttle about 09:30 I met Morgen and Joleen Kriedemann from Johannesburg and Jim Franks from Cincinnati in the check-in line. It was very good to see...

I returned from the Kalahari to be met by my Mum and Dad walking towards me hand in hand at the airport in Lusaka. It was so great to see my Dad up and walking strongly again after his operation. It was big hugs all round. I spent the next few days enjoying their company and washing off the Kalahari sand which had managed to get everywhere. The ...

March 14, 2008 Lusaka, Zambia Exchange rate 3,709 kwacha to $1 The Kilimanjaro Express finally pulled into Kapiri Mposhi at oh-dark-hundred-hours - maybe 10 PM -- not a good time to be caught in Kapiri Mposhi. Kapiri Mposhi is a nothing town and there is no reason to be here except that the Tazara Railroad ends here. Why it ends here is a good q...

Ended up spending the whole day yesterday at the shopping mall (American style), doing all sorts of activities such as blogging, shopping, dining and even got to go to the cinema. We saw the film Lions for Lambs - was good to see a film after a long time, even if it wasn't that great in our opinion. When we finally got back to the hotel, we disc...

Went on a night safari - generally these are pretty much a waste of time. Pavolv managed to learn that dogs have conditioned responses, so why would that differ to lions, leopards, other animals I ask? the answer is it does not, the average animal has learnt that the sound of an apporaching vehicle with a high powered search lights means there a...

I haven't written much about Zambia lately and the program, so before I write about being in Cape Town for Easter, I thought I would share some of what has been going on with the program here. It's been both an interesting and yet difficult time. Part is very exciting as different projects and ideas that I have been working on since I got here w...

The day started out beautifully. We did another silent walk down to the dam wall. I wish we could do that every morning. It's so refreshing to get out of the walls of the ashram and explore a bit. I'm so excited!! For the first time today I was able to get both my legs off the ground by myself in headstand!! This lady explained how it was a goo...

We had quite an eventful journey to Lusaka. We had breakfast at 5am and were on the road by 6am. Later in the morning, while we were stopped at a checkpoint, a man appeared with an unusual sign advertising 'sex powder'. Unusual! Later in the day we climbed slowly up a hill only to find a lorry marooned across the road on his way down. A coach co...

In the 41 years since it gained independence from Britain Zambia has had only three presidents. The leading freedom fighter, Kenneth Kaunda, took over in 1964 and ruled for almost 30 years, managing at once to create an aura of kindly old leader and at the same time doing very little to improve the country. Now aged 81, KK is still around, makin...