Blogs from Zambia, Africa - page 77

Forgot to add in that for those of you that have been trying to contact me for the past few days.. Reception in Malawi is shaky.. you dun get reception at times... and Singtel does not have roaming agreements with the telcos in Zambia.. so, you won't be able to contact me till Zimbabwe.. which is this Saturday... not sure about Zim.. if still no roaming, then Tues i'll be in Botswana.. And another shit thing.. the data in my 8GB flash disk is corrupted!! i think i tried to plug it into the computer at the internet cafe earlier.. w/o realizing they using Win98.. and then a msg popped up to say that "your disk is not formatted.. you want to format it now?" horrors of horrors!! so i came to another place... and they ... read more

Happy Mothers Day to our Mom's Gilma and Darlene. We wish you were both here sharing this experience with us. On our way back from Victoria Falls this morning we picked up gifts from the local village people - that was pressure shopping like no other! The falls were in all their glory - blue sky, very high "smoke" from the off spray, double rainbows - beautiful!!! This is what David Livingstone had to say after is first sighting: "After twenty minutes' sail from Kalai we came in sight, for the first time, of the columns of vapor appropriately called 'smoke,' rising at a distance of five or six miles, exactly as when large tracts of grass are burned in Africa. Five columns now arose, and, bending in the direction of the wind, they seemed ... read more

Wow - another amazing place. The people really are very kind here and the hotel is beautiful. A short 5 minute walk from our room to the top of the falls. The river is running so high now that it looks like a giant plume of smoke from the spray of the waterfalls that you can see for miles away. We are having a good time playing with all of the monkeys that hang out side of our room waiting for Ben to come out to join them. We also see lots of Zebras wondering about. We went on a sunset cruise of the Zambezi River on the African Queen. It really was a sunset of a life time....stunning. We spotted waterbuck, hippos, crocks, impala and loads of birds. I met two separate gals on ... read more

Very short stay in Zambia, it also included a hop over the border to Zimbabwe for 1/2 a day to ride an elephant which was fantastic, we fed them too and saw very young ones too. The youngest was 2 months old and had been rescued when it's mum was separated from it by poachers. The main stop in Livingstone was the Victoria Falls which were awesome. We got soaked walking through them. but it was definitely worth it, cant wait 'til Niagara! then we got split up from the group we had been with all along to go to Jo'Burg with a new group. The others were mostly going to Nairobi. We went on another Game cruise but it was messy, our tour guide got thrown in and everyone got very drunk. A couple of ... read more

Do you remember that time when I mentioned that I lived in a city called Kitwe and worked for an organization called ZATAC? Yeah, so that’s not so accurate any more. It’s a fairly long and boring story, but basically the situation was that the EWB-ZATAC partnership on this project was such that EWB (i.e. me) wasn’t in a position to be able to add much value to the project. First, the project was struggling with a variety of factors beyond my (and in many cases, ZATAC’s) control. In addition, ZATAC was more interested in me playing more of a gap-filling as opposed to a value-added role, which is not EWB’s focus. It was an amicable break-up, though. I still keep in touch with my friends at ZATAC and will be taking a trip up ... read more