Blogs from Livingstone, Zambia, Africa - page 30

Our trip to Zambia began with the right feet. From Dar es Salaam in Tanzania we took the TAZARA train in direction of Zambia. The trip to the border by train took us one day and one night, on top of having a very comfortable train trip, what makes this trip so special is that the train crosses the Selous National Park in Tanzania. This giant and almost untouched by the tourism industry National Park is home for elephants, giraffes, lions and many other famous animals. To make everything better, as the train crosses the heart of the park we had the chance of spotting this animals right outside of our cabin window. We did a free game view by train (hehehe, didn’t even had to pay the Tanzania expensive park fees). We left the train ... read more

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 and silly hard hat. It was luxury personified. We sneaked into the toilets and I have never seen so much marble and gold - I'm ashamed to admit I took a photo. So we caught ... read more

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... read more

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 joined another truck on their trek back south to Johannesburg, South Africa. 4 of the original Cape Tonians are continuing on until the end in Nairobi, Kenya. We have been joined by a handful of ... read more

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 a minibus packed full of bananas after quite awhile negotiating, and even though we had a shuttle from the Hostel coming to the border it was about 6 hours later and this particular border crossing ... read more