Blogs from South Luangwa, Zambia, Africa - page 4

May 25th Typical morning at the Croc Valley campsite: keeping the primates from stealing all your food! Their sneaky little shites, creeping up out of nowhere and stealing a tomato or onion. That happened the day before actually but this morning they had gotten on the truck and ripped open a bag of beans and rice as well. You can check out a video of me fending for my life against one of the primates here, eventually. There is another video of them eating rice and hangin’ around the truck here. So after breakfast we packed up our things and headed out of the national park. Farron had another Farron surprise for us, so we were excited. Although admittedly it would be hard to top his previous surprise which was Sanje Falls. He took us to ... read more

May 23rd The morning wasn’t so bad even though I got about 4 hours asleep. The whole group was milling about the camp eating breakfast and talking about the plan over the next few days. A few of the Dragoman group weren’t around for a final goodbye but we wished them all well and hoped they would get on schedule soon. Before we left we did add one to the Southbound Six, a girl named May from Amsterdam would be getting a ride with us down to Livingstone, Zambia. It was nice to add a fresh face to the group and someone more to talk to and hear stories from. We got on the road on time and after a stop and the gas station we were headed for the Malawi/Zambia border. We got there after ... read more

Helloo everyone! A quick hello from Zambia! It has been a action packed last few days! It has included my first aid skills, bar fights, Christmas Mass in the local village, listening to my new favorite music artists on the beach, an elephant charging at our safari truck (barely missed us) and no dry clothing. I'm really learning a lot about the local cultures and different ways of life. The western way is not always the right way and even though everything takes sooo long here, it makes the destination so much more enjoyable. I'm also learning about myself and working on making the qualities I like in other people the qualities I like about myself (in my own way of course). One of the best things I've learned is everyone has a story. I often ... read more

We spent a couple of nights in an amazing campsite in South Luangwa national park. The campsite was called Croc Valley, and there was situated on the edge of a river that was indeed full of crocodiles and hippos. Within a few hours of arriving, there were 4 elephants wandering through the campsite - we were so close to them! The next day we had a couple of game drives - one first thing in the morning and the other one in the evening after dark. We managed to see a whole pride of lions snoozing within a couple of metres from our car - we got so close that one woke up and started to get annoyed that we were so close, and we were all quite scared that she was going to jump right ... read more

Also, wir 2 Mzungu (so werden hier in Zambia die Weissen genannt) fuhren von Livingstone mit dem Bus nach Lusaka. Wir konnten erstmals erahnen, wie schoen Zambia ist. Die Landschaft ist wirklich wunderschoen. So unbequem die 8stuendige Busfahrt auch war, auch die Leute sind extrem freundlich und lustig. Als wir in Lusaka in einem typisch afrikanischen Mittelklassehotel eincheckten (es war irgendwie gemuetlich und gut bezahlbar), erzaehlten wir dem Rezeptionisten, dass viele Europaer Angst haben, nach Afrika zu gehen. Viele denken noch, dass sie getoetet, beklaut und gekocht werden im Kochtopf. Er musst so lachen und gab Markus die Hand mit dem Kommentar: "Don't worry, I will not eat you". Es war sehr lustig. Ich glaube, er lacht heute noch. Lusaka ist keine schoene Stadt, eigentlich eine richtige Dreckstadt. Aber es gibt alles und ein phaenomenaler Supermarkt ... read more