Lundazi Our first Zambian town after crossing the border and so to the bank to get local money. The annoying thing in Africa is fuel stations don't take visa card and diesel is expensive. 7578 ZKW per litre and it is £1 = 7500, also the ATMs only give small quantities of cash so you have to get money go get fuel and then get more money. In Lundazi we also decided to get a Zambian sim card as cheap to call home and the sim card cost less then £1 and a 20 mi...

Hi All I know our blog is a little behind and will do my best to catch up over the next few days but we are now in Namibia country number 19 and so will write up the Zambia blog soon. We had a great time in Zambia and a great time with my parents who joined us for one week. One evening while camping we had a male elephant pearing in through our tent but luckily we had no food. We have been in Namibia now 4 days and its also a great place. We cant believe how far...

Malawi Malawi is said to be the poorest country in Africa but it was also up there with one of our favourites. The Malawi people have very little but they are all full of smiles and supper friendly. The country is 900km long and 700km of it is Lake Malawi. Our first stop was Palm beach camp at the southern tip of the lake. Lovely camp spot with the beach all to ourselves. The camp is owned by Rieta, a South African who has been there 22 years and has set up ...