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Lake Malawi is sometimes know as The Calendar Lake’. It’s huge: around 356 miles long and 52 miles wide. From up on the Nyika Plateau you can see across to the mountains of Tanzania and Mozambique. At the lake shore … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Zambia
Leaving Uganda was tough. We knew it would be tough because we’ve made so many friends and had such a great time with the Fuel Briquette team that it was hard to drag ourselves away. The quantity and quality of … Continue reading
We left Will & Lindsey (still bickering) at Bridge Camp and drove about 250km east to Chipata (30km from the Malawi border). The first 100km or so was typical African wide sky, forested landscape. For the latter 150km the landscape … Continue reading
Relaxing at Eureka camp was very pleasant and only 10km or so outside the mayhem of the city centre. Another of its advantages is that it’s about halfway between Lusaka and the elephant orphanage at Lilayi. This is the ‘nursery’ … Continue reading
From Nanzhilla Plains Camp we had to go back to the Cordon Road as the Plains Road was still boggy & impassable. The track from here up to the southern end of Lake Ithezi Thezi was easier than it had … Continue reading
About 20 minutes after we left Safely at the entrance to Dundumwezi Gate it started to rain. Heavily. Just what we needed with the tracks already soft and deeply rutted. There is no bush-camping allowed in the park, due to … Continue reading
Whilst the car was at Foley’s Africa with Nick Selby we got the chance to spend some time doing nothing at all at Maramba River Lodge in Livingstone. It’s been a great place to chill for a few days. We … Continue reading
In Livingstone, Zambia (80km from the Botswana border) we went to Fawlty Towers Backpackers and had a late, fairly good breakfast (20Kwacha / $5 each). Unfortunately they’ve gone ‘upmarket’ and don’t do camping any more. Livingstone Backpackers was also pleasant, … Continue reading
Our last night in Botswana was at Chobe Safari Lodge. The camp there has good shade, friendly staff and is next to the wide Chobe river. Uneventful, other than the normal Warthogs running through the undergrowth and a Baboon who … Continue reading