Tongabezi Lodge

... meet Ben’s wife Vanessa, who met Ben when she worked for VSO in Livingstone, when we visited the local Tongabezi Trust. At Tongabezi lodge the Zambezi River, which had been getting higher in the last few weeks, was expected to be 3-metres higher ...

Tongbezi trust school – Livingstone, Zambia We visited a local school next to Tongabezi lodge, where we stayed. We met Beth who runs the school and Vanessa who started the school after her work 20 years ago for VSO in Zambia. The school started with ...

Waterberry lodge From the hot sweaty humid but peaceful setting of Tongabezi we moved up river to the slightly cooler Waterberry lodge. Wed had a lovely round-shaped thatched lodge with an upstairs which was perfect for us for the few days. The flood ...

... Our hut sits mere feet from the slow moving Zambezi River five miles upriver from where the water roars over Victoria Falls. Tongabezi Lodge is very civilized although the power is erratic--which means it works occasionally. Even though this isn't a game ...

... for those who don't know, is a privately run school about 20km out of Livingstone. It is run by Vanessa Parker who runs Tongabezi lodge, so is a private rather than state funded school, run purely on donations. Most of the children live in nearby Simonga ...