May 24th -May 25th The long road home! We awoke from Chimfunshi at 5am to be ready for 6am the pickup time previously agreed with Silver a few days previous before Scott and I set off into the bush where signal was non existent. True to form Silver arrived on African time around 8.30am! We hopped in and caught up swapping stories of the weekends. Turned out Silver had been driving, visiting and going out all over the copper belt region of Zambia and as a result ...

Chingola May 19th - May 20th - Monkeying around! After the lengthy drama that unfolded on the trip to Chingola, we were all a little fatigued but determined to soldier on and enjoy the delights Chingola had to offer.Chingola is a mining town, specifically copper mining. The main mine named KCM employs over half the population of the town, Silver's sister Chansa included. Whilst the mine is quite vast in size, the town in comparison is rather small containing t...

Day 18th May - Fresh out the frying pan and into the fire!!! So yesterday we made the transition from holidaymakers to travellers, courtesy of a supposedly 5 hour bus jounrey from Lusaka to Kitwe and then a further 1 hour car drive from Kitwe to to Chingola. The previous day was a very relaxed lazy day including a failed attempt to play golf due to the fact we were not dressed smart enough, meeting up with another of Silver's school friends named Maybin for dri...

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