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Background: The territory of Northern Rhodesia was administered by the South Africa Company from 1891 until it was taken over by the UK in 1923. During the 1920s and 1930s, advances in mining spurred development and immigration. The name was changed to Zambia upon independence in 1964. In the 1980s and 1990s, declining copper prices and a prolonged drought hurt the economy. Elections in 1991 brought an end to one-party rule, but the subsequent vote in 1996 saw blatant harassment of opposition parties. The election in 2001 was marked by administrative problems with three parties filing a legal petition challenging the election of ruling party candidate Levy MWANAWASA. The new president launched a far-reaching anti-corruption campaign in 2002, which resulted in the prosecution of former President Frederick CHILUBA and many of his supporters in late 2003. Opposition parties currently hold a majority of seats in the National Assembly.

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By Sparkie
September 12th 2006

Adrenalin day and goodbye Zambia

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Half a second before I embarked on my first ever free fall into the canyon

Adrenalin day: At 8.30 am we headed out for a day for pulse racing, pure fear events. We began the day by signing a waver for any accidents or death that may occur during our activities -such a reassuring beginning. This place offered; Abseiling- backwards and forwards (don't ask), a thing called The Flying Fox- where you run at full speed and jump off the edge of the canyon (I should say here that you are attached to a body harness and you slide out over the huge gorge and they pull you back in). Then there is the zip slide [View Full Entry]

Sunset on the Zambezi river on booze cruise

Our gang a little worse for ware post cruise

By Sparkie
September 10th 2006

Monkey trouble

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Vic falls from the top

Well day number three in Livingston and we embarked on one of the tours we had to actually pay for. This one was Livingston Island. We arrived at the Royal Livingston Hotel at the leisurely time of 10.30. This is the place where we departed by speedboat to get to the island, however I can't go on without telling you a tiny bit about the sheer opulence of this hotel. Basically it is a place for those with lots of money and no manners. Crazy Americans dressed head to toe in old fashioned safari gear including the pulled up, long socks [View Full Entry]

By Sparkie
September 9th 2006

Livingston, Zambia

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Victoria falls, Livingston, Zambia

Livingston Zambia We awoke at 2.30 am to tackle the long drive back to Johannesburg airport. As we were getting our stuff together, we heard what sounded like a bloody huge animal in the stream bellow our tent. Not wanting to even see what it was we dragged our stuff to the car we half expecting to be mauled to death at super speed. Luckily we survived and began our slow drive though the reserve to get to the main road. We had to stop several times to let sleeping giraffes get off the path. It is surprising the evil look [View Full Entry]

Some of the scenery on the down in the boiling pot

By AnninaMiri
August 31st 2006

livingstone

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Hey ihr Lieben Gerade sind wir in livingstone; ziemlich touristisch mit vielen Adrenalin-Aktivitaeten. Wir haben uns jedoch zurueckgehalten und nur white water rafting gemacht, was uns abenteuerlich genug war. Natuerlich haben wir die Victoria Falls besucht - eindruecklich! Wir versuchen immer wieder, Fotos hochzuladen, aber die Internetverbindungen sind zu langsam, tut uns leid. Vielleicht wirds besser Richtung Sueden (Namibia, Suedafrika). Liebste Gruesse, eure Miri und Annina [View Full Entry]

By Cybercuff
August 11th 2006

Capetown to Vic Falls

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The Team
Morning day 1 - leaving CapeTown

Hi everyone! Thanks for all you messages! At last an internet spot to update the blog. Day 10, our first day off, not only have we caught up with our 3 days but we're now a day ahead! It's been hard riding all the way! On average 500 kms per day (they were pulling my leg (which they do alot of) when they said 1.000!!) at 110 kms/hr. Longestt dayy waas 577kms. The first week was freezing all along the coast until Northern Namibia where we turned East n the layers started peeling off (7 in some cases!!). On the wildlife [View Full Entry]

Johnny Moroc Queen of the dunes and Coronel Mustard

By LeylaEmm
August 2nd 2006

monkey poo in the mist

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Hi All :) This blog entry shall be back-dated as it is now August the 10th in Malawi. I shall still pretend that this entry comes from days gone by in Zambia! What's there to say? Our Zambian excursion started with a 5 day stay at Victoria Falls/Livingstone, the "tourist adventure capital" of Zambia, "the real Africa." Following this we drove through Lusaka then east through Chipata to Malawi. Much fun was had on the way! The half way point of our overland adventure was in Livingstone where most of the people on our bus either ended their tour or were [View Full Entry]

By Swissair84
July 16th 2006

Makgadikgadi Pan - Victoria Falls

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Heute morgen mussten wir sogar schon um halb 6 aufstehen. Schnell die Zelte abbauen und los gings. Da ich immernoch totmuede war schlief ich auf der Rueckbank fuer 3 Stunden. Ploetzlich machtde der Truck einen halt: Elephants crossing the Road! Das war einfach wunderschoen, so viel Elefanten, einfach so. Schnell waren die 2 Filme verknipst. Es sind einfach so schoene Tiere. Nach 1 Uhr ueberquerten wir den Zambesi River und waren somit auch in Zambia!. Das Camp in Livingston ist einfach wunderschoen und wir konnnten seit langem wiedereinmal auf Gras Zelten. Nachem wir unsere Aktivitaeten gebuch [View Full Entry]

By honeymoonbliss
July 12th 2006

From spotted dogs to wilderbeast and my 7th continent!

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Dida and I in the village - Croatia

Hi all, Sorry it's been a while, things in Croatia a little antiquated (hence the photos didn't come through properly), then we were travelling and it's taken us until now to catch our breath. Back to Croatia and the Dalmatian coast. We decided to try and cram everything in and so we were once again tired but exhilarated by what we saw in Croatia. We went up to the Village to visit Jo's Dida (grandad) and managed to catch a lift with one of the many Opacak relatives so the trip took 45 minutes instead of double that. Village life was [View Full Entry]

By lush
June 4th 2006

Zambia & Vic Falls

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The Edge
No safety railings here (Dad would love it) just walk up and see how close you can get.

Well, I had some issues with my last entry, and probably could have just combined it with this entry, but figured since it was all finished, and I hadn't done and update in awhile I'd just start this one fresh for Zambia. We were dropped off at the border and caught a ferry across the Zambezi river, the overland group on board wouldn't really acknowledge us in their hot shot truck and thus upon reaching the other side just sort of took off even though we were going to ask them for a ride into Livingstone. We managed to get into [View Full Entry]

By El Tigre
June 3rd 2006

Vic Falls, Mahango Game Reserve, and Chobe NP...

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A Baobab
Just as the sun is setting we stop to take a few shots...we were a little late leaving the park.

Well after arriving back in Windhoek after our last little adventure around Namibia, Charlie, Jas and I began looking into taking the train up to Livingstone, Zambia to see the falls and go our separate ways. That morning, rather than take the train we decided to rent a car with Rob (a Kiwi) and Sophie (English) to cruise around northern Namibia, making a true commonwealth experience. We were off on another four day little safari in another little white opel...this time with 5 people and all of our luggage and food. Needless to say it was a tight fit, but a [View Full Entry]

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