Blogs from Zambia, Africa - page 12

Geo: -12.8546, 31.311night drive with leopards and hyena and story of the witchFor the evening drive, it was the same group as the morning drive and we had Lameck as our spotter. As we started off we went by the place we had seen the young leopards and saw one of them on the group near the tree. Once again, if you did not know there was a leopard there, it was almost impossible to see.From there we came upon a giant eagle owl sitting in a tree. Unfortunately, our group had some that were not as interested in birds as we were or some of the people in other vehicles.From there we drove on toward the lagoon by Mfuwe Lodge. One end of the lagoon has a red algae growth and we watched a large ... read more

Geo: -12.8546, 31.311Got back from our trip to bush camp and there were some people in our campsite on the other side of our "office" picnic table. This was not too bad because we still had our view but they had a fire in the fire pit not 6 feet from our tent which was not good! They had stuff all around the braii pit but all seemed ok.Sitting at the table with our computers up and running and up walks a young man that introduces himself as Adam. He is one of the campers along with three others that are in the park at present. We talk for a minute and assure him it is ok for them to be camped there but NO FIRES in the firepit because of smoke for one thing but ... read more

Geo: -12.8546, 31.311A Walk on the wide side or our trip to the bush camp. Got up the next morning after our all day drive and got thing together for our trip out to the bush camp to spend the night. There is a vehicle that will take your overnight things so all you need to have with you on the walk is your camera, water, hat etc.We had turned in our order to make sure they had red wine out there for dinner. We were joined by Christian from Switzerland and two ladies, one a translator for a woman on safari with the group the translator was from. They spoke German so it was an interesting walk, hearing Moses, our guide, tell us something and then hear it be translated into German. Actually got the ... read more

Kabwe Warriors. De Kabwe Warriors is de eredivisie voetbalploeg (MTN/FAZ Superdivision) van Kabwe. De thuisbasis is het Railways Stadium die een capaciteit heeft van 10.000 plaatsen. Kabwe Warriors is momenteel aan de magere kant aan het presteren. Ze staan 14e van 16 ploegen in de Zambiaanse Premier League. Op zondag 29 juni speelt Kabwe Warriors tegen de 2e geplaatste Zesco United. De wedstrijd begint om 15:00u. Voordat de wedstrijd Nederland – Chili (WK-wedstrijd laatste 16) van de wereldkampioenschappen om 18:00u begint neem ik nog even de tweede helft mee van Kabwe Warriors. Toch even kijken hoe dat er hier aan toe gaat. Het stadion is aardig vol. Goede sfeer en de mascotte is gewoon een man met dreadlocks die gekke sprintjes over het voetbalveld maakt. Uiteraard staan er geen kuipstoelen maar is het een en al ... read more

Geo: -12.8546, 31.311Up early but held up because we had people from the chalets with us as well as Patrick and Verena. The other people in the vehicle were an Italian couple with two small children. They were sitting in the very back seat and we were in the middle and Patrick and Verena in the front seat.One of the first things we saw was an elephant lifting up on its back legs to eat some of the winterthorn branches and leaves that were out of his reach on the ground. It was so awesome to see this happen. Italian father stands up and hangs out of the vehicle and was asked not to do this but was slow to respond and not do it again. Unfortunately when he did this the elephant false charged our ... read more