Nyala Lodge
Travel Blogs from Livingstone
Maramba Market
This is where regular people shop (photos below). It's a wide-spread warren of stalls and stands, where you can get everything from fresh vegetables and dried fish to furniture, live chickens to shoes or a haircut. It’s busy and colourful, and I ended up with a backpack full of fruits and root-like things I didn’t recognize, but all of which ended up being very ...
Best days of my life
... thing was leaning over the edge, where you can see all the water fall down. Back on land we could not believe what we just did. We could enjoy the view some more and have delicious food.
After such an impressive and demanding day, we decided to go to a snack bar and just eat a burger and some chips. We didn’t want to cook or sit for a very long time, as everyone was absolutely exhausted. In Jollyboys we lounged a bit, watched the pictures and went to bed ...
Devil's Pool
... have been a great idea). The pool itself is tiny, I think I was expecting (or hoping) something a bit bigger. We all get in & sit along the ledge while the guide takes photos with everyone's cameras. Whilst sitting there little fish are constantly biting our feet which is a little disconcerting when you're on the edge of a extremely high drop! Then one by one we all get on our stomachs looking over the edge (I didn't look :)) whilst one ...
Thoughts on Guinea Fowl
These are stupid, stupid birds.
That's already a million times more thought about guinea fowl than any guinea fowl has ever or will ever exhibit about anything.
I’ve had a good bit of time to observe them in the past couple of weeks. There’s a small flock living on the premises of the lodge where I’m staying, and my office during the week is outside in the garden. Often, it’s just me and the guinea fowl.
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Livingstone
... I’m tempted to come back to see that.
So, it doesn’t look like much. I like the town, though. People are nice, even the ones trying to sell you copper bracelets and trinkets from their pockets, and the town is laid back. It’s just touristy enough that it’s pretty easy to get things done, but it’s not overly packaged and systematized, and you can find people to arrange just about anything you want whether it’s offered or not. I ...