Our train ride took us to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, the nearest city to Matabo National Park, known to the locals as ‘Matopos’. This park is home to one of the best collections of San rock paintings, many of which are over 20,000 years old. The San are better known as ‘bushmen’, Continue Reading
The Train Trip
We promised you no more bus stories, so this is a story about the train trip that we took in the last 24 hours… We wanted to travel from Victoria Falls to Bulawayo, both on the western side of Zimbabwe. The options were a five hour bus trip leaving at Continue Reading
Zimbabwe, Continued.
We entered into Zimbabwe by walking across the bridge over the Zambezi River just downstream of Victoria Falls. We walked into the town of Victoria Falls, which seemed deserted relative to the bustle of activity on the Zambian side of the falls in Livingstone. All of the gas stations and Continue Reading
Zim Baby
The largest part of Victoria Falls is located on the other side of the river from Livingstone, in the country of Zimbabwe. Few tourists go to Zimbabwe, because it is run by a dictator named Robert Mugabe, who is desperately holding on to power. Many people expect a coup d’état Continue Reading
Livingstone, I Presume
Livingstone is the city on the Zambian side of Victoria Falls, the largest and most famous waterfall in Africa. The falls are a major tourist attraction, and are a highlight of many people’s journey to ‘the dark continent’. Victoria Falls is about one kilometer across, where the entire Zambezi River Continue Reading
Things never work out quite the way we planned
We arrived in Zambia about a week ago, and spent the first five days in South Luangwa National Park. Like many of our stories, this one started off with a transportation challenge. South Luangwa is about 120 kilometers from the small town of Chipata, and there isn’t any regularly scheduled Continue Reading
Observations about Malawi
Malawi is a beautiful country extending in a narrow strip along the western shore of Lake Malawi. The lake covers one-fifth of the country’s total area. People are very friendly. Most speak English. The first Europeans to reach Malawi were the Portuguese in 1616, but the most famous explorer to Continue Reading
Rest and Relaxation
After a challenging few days of getting here, we finally reached the country of Malawi. We arrived after thirteen hours of travel from Mbeya Tanzania, to a popular backpacker hangout called Nkhata Bay, on the western shore of beautiful Lake Malawi. Our arrival just after dark was blemished by our Continue Reading