I got up reasonably early this morning and had a pretty decent breakfast at Shoestrings, I then went for a walk into town to hand over the obscene amount of cash I had carried across the worst border in Africa to Joy at Backpackers Bazaar. She wasn't in yet so I had to wait around for a fair while. When she got in, I handed over the cash, got some last minute instructions from the boss (typical of this company) and then Joy offered to drive me to the border. ...

I got up again at 5am this morning, carefully checking for huge spiders as I emerged from my tent. We had a quick breakfast and then headed for Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. I was in the back of the truck today and when we rolled into Lusaka, we parked in the car park of a huge shopping centre, which certainly wasn't there when I was here last. The group were told to be back at the truck by 3pm and George and I went into the shopping centre to pick up suppl...

I have decided to put the last three days into one entry as they have all blurred into one, with no overly significant events to report.It has been three days of solid driving, rain and putting tents up and down.We left Livingstone quite early and it was ridiculously muddy, so much so I took my shoes off and elected to wash my feet before getting on the truck. We drove all day stopping once for lunch.We arrived close to dark at Eureka Campsite just outside the...