I survived!!! White water rafting on the Zambezi is fantastic!!! Unfortunately, we had a woman in our raft who had rafted the Zambezi before and was very nervous to say the least. She didnt want to enter to water at rapid number one cos it had scared her before so we had to walk round it and jump into the river and swim to our raft!!!! Not quite the start I was expecting but it had it's own excitment jumping into a fairly fast flowing Zambezi from about 8f...

Started early today. 7.15 meet to go Jet boating up some of the rapids on the Zambezi. As with everything lately, this trip turned out far better than expected. The drive to the river was through a couple of very remote villages. Our Jet Boat guide stopped and explained some of the village traditions and also pointed out the Kings Palace, which was a very humble hut. The present King is a graduate from a Uk University. He has done papers for Harvard and Oxford Un...

WOW!! I'm now at Victoria Falls. We arrived this afternoon after two long days of travelling. The truck still has electrical fault so we are unable to play music... hard for me to go without music... my ipod was low on battery too hey ho! We arrived this afternoon and stopped to see the falls before heading to the campsite. There are lots of walks you can do with view points to take pictures and even though the Zambezi is quite low it is still very imp...

Today we crossed the border from Malawi to Zambia. The cultural difference is really stark. Malawi is so poor and housing is incredibly humble. The merchants outside the campsite at Kande Beach were happy for us to trade with socks or t-shirts in place of money as we didn't have much of the local currency. Here in Zambia we can already see 'townships' as opposed to small dwellings along the roadside. The women here were western clothing, jeans, t-shirts, hee...

Today we crossed the border from Malawi to Zambia. The cultural difference is really stark. Malawi is so poor and housing is incredibly humble. The merchants outside the campsite at Kande Beach were happy for us to trade with socks or t-shirts in place of money as we didn't have much of the local currency. Here in Zambia we can already see 'townships' as opposed to small dwellings along the roadside. The women here were western clothing, jeans, t-shirts, hee...