We set off for Zambia on Boxing Day, quite late, because Ivonne was on call at the hospital the previous night and she finished at 1 in the morning. So we packed all our camping stuff, a 20L petrol can and a puppy with all her things in a Toyota Rav4 and we hit the road! Our first stop was south Luangwa, one of the best game reserves in Africa, ‘just’ across the border from Malawi. I say ‘Just’ because is only a bit more than a hundred km away from the border but the road is terrible and it took us 3 hours to get there! In some parts we almost got stuck in the mud, the water reaching the body of the car.. We stayed at croc camp in one of the chalets. Honestly, I love camping, but camping during the raining season was a bit too much!! We saw plenty of animals, lion, hippos, giraffes… it was great, and since its low season there were very few visitors. We also did a night safari trying to spot animals with a torch and we saw several hippos (they come out of the water at night to eat the grass!) and a couple of cats that we thought were leopards but our guide said that they were servals.. (!?)
The camp is outside the national park, but we had loads of elephants visiting us! The locals told us that they go to the villages to raid the mango trees. Our dog bwenzi had to stay in the chalet when we visited the park, but she enjoyed looking at the elephants and baboons (from the veranda). We spent two nights and we drove to Lusaka where we spent New Year Eve… but I’ll tell you about that in the next entry J. My laptop has died and I have problems to download the pictures from my camera but I’ll put them soon in my flickr site, promised!
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