We weren't used to these levels of comfort, but we were liking it. Soft coach seats and enough room to ensure our knees would not be bleeding at the end of the 7hr journey, that was what we had bought in Lusaka. With Jet Li on the TV (as usual), but this time with sound we could hear, in English and with sub titles, this journey was going to be an easy one - not likely. It was possibly a couple of hours into our journey when we ground to a halt and pulled over on...

Although none of us had a booking we all managed to find a room for the evening, and after a couple of beers at the bar went for tea at an Indian restaurant. It was immediately obvious to us that Zambia was considerably more expensive than its neighbours, and after arriving at the restaurant the rest of the group, except another couple we had picked up atthe hostel, decided that a fast food snack was perhaps a more reasonably priced option. We returned to the ove...

The ferry to Dar left early, but that was good, we didn't want to miss our connecting train to Zambia as it only left once every 3 days. It was still raining and miserable and with the wet season arriving on Zanzibar we perhaps left at exactly the right time.We found ourselves a friendly cabbie who took us to the train station to pay for and collect our train tickets. Enroute we conked out a couple of times having run out of fuel, but our cabbie knew a couple of ...