Blogs from Livingstone, Zambia, Africa - page 31

As you well know, all good things must come to an end and I have yet to figure out why vacations go so quickly and the typical work day seems to last forever. Perhaps it is because as adults we still have the child in us that wants to never quit playing. We leave Botswana and enter Zambia by the way of the Kazangula border, a point where the four countries of Botswana, Zambia, Nambia, and Zimbabwe meet. We were to stay at the Natural Mystic Lodge, however our camp was changed to Chundukwa which is located in Livingstone and a half hour's drive from Victoria Falls. It was the mighty Zambezi which led missionary Dr. David Livingstone on his greatest and final adventure. In search of a means to access the interior, Livingstone tagged the ... read more

I left you in Eshowe and I'm soo Glad I left, my god it has to be the worst hostel in the world. I was one of three people staying there and because the Baz bus only runs certain days i was stuck there, i nearly slit my wrists. Rain, cold and outdoor showers = happy days! The reason for my eshowe catastrophe was to do Zululand so went around this Zulu village with a thousand little kids in tow wanting a picture taken. As for the Zulu beer rocking, hardly, looked bad white and foamy and tasted even worse. Was pretty cool though and felt very African so much so they even did the whole clicking when they talked, wicked. Next stop and a new country Swaziland. I stayed on the Milwane Nature Reserve and ... read more

After a long ardous 17 hour bus ride, we landed in Livingstone, Zambia's Tourism Capital. We stayed at Jollyboys Backpackers and signed up right away for a Booze Cruise on the Zambezi. The boat started sail at 3:30 pm and went along the mighty Zambezi river, upriver from the Vic Falls. We drank, ate and made new friends and watched Elephants and Hippos along with the beautiful sunset. We met an Indian family from Lusaka that had come to see the falls. There are plenty of Indians in Zambia, mainly in small businesses - similar to all the East African countries we have visited before. Zambia and several countries in this region had record rainfalls this year and therefore, the famed South Luangwa Park was closed and Victoria Falls had record water volume. While we were ... read more

So There I was at my secend border post in three days wondering what lay ahead of me and after handing over my GBP35 I returned to the bus eagerly awaiting the next country on my list of countries. I waited on the bus some more. And abit more. Just to make sure we weren't in a hurry immigratrion kept us waiting some more. After two hours we were on our way for the last two hours of the journey to the adventure sports capital of the world and home of one of the seven natural wonders of the world, Victoria Falls. I got there about 1 in the afternoon and after booking into Jolleyboys I went out into Zambia to do some shopping and too see what Zambia was like. I now knew that I ... read more

I woke early this morning after an extremely comfortable sleep. I was in a small dome tent just big enough to fit me, but I have never had such a ‘lekke’ sleep, the noises and fresh air on the outside was enough to make me feel dreamy. We started the day with a fried breakfast; absolutely yummy before heading over to a spot near the lake where 3 Elephants where waiting with some trainers. We jumped on the Elephants and went walking around the bush for an hour or so looking for game. Game is the term used for African wildlife apparently. Upon returning back to base; the Elephants where led into the river with us still on! To put it in term, for the next 15minutes we swam with Elephants. I’m not sure whether it ... read more