Day 7, 11 July 2012, Livingstone to Lusaka with Nomad Tours - For anyone who has ever doubted it, we are now, officially, "On the Bus". Specifically a large truck with 15 other travellers on the road to Lusaka. Simultaneously touch typing and looking out the window to avoid motion sickness. We left Livingstone in Zambia an hour or so ago when our tour group picked us up this morning for a 21 day tour up to Nairobi. We are on the truck at the moment zooming p...

Day 6, 10 July 2012, Victoria Falls, Zambia - Wow. Small word - but a huge reaction. We cabbed to Victoria Falls this morning - a snappy 40,000 Kwachas. (Qua-char) - or roughly $8. Zambia has decided in the last month or so that there is no point having a currency if everyone uses USD - so now many things have to be paid for in local Kwachas - which meant some snappy and possibly shady foreign exchange dealing when we had to come up with 200,000 kwachas at th...

Day 5, 9 July 2012, Cape Town to Livingstone (Zambia) - We had a 7 am flight out of Cape Town today - connecting with 11 am from Johannesburg to Livingstone. Trouble with early morning flights (that is, anything prior to noon...) is that neither of us sleep for fear of sleeping in! Eventually got up at 4.30 am and made final preps prior to shuttle pick up at 5.30 am. Met a great bloke on the plane to Joburg who recommended we get out of the terminal between fl...