TAZARA…aka Tanzanian Zambian Railways Destination: Dar es Salaam Origin: Kapiri Mposhi………errr, where? Say that again. Transportation: A gift from the Chinese in the heady days of worldwide brotherly socialism and communism of the 70's, TAZARA. Never since has it been invested in. (Send over the trams from Porto!) Journey time was officially, from 16h00 Tuesday to arrive Dar es Salaam at 12h00 Thursday. Unofficially and realistically, it goes when it g...

Another very early morning. Another bus trip. Livingstone to Lusaka. Only 400km away, but with the state of the roads for the first 100km, it was a 7-8 hr trip. Joy, oh joy. Some had warned of potholes big enough to drive into. Dramatic license, I thought. But we skirted a few of those on the trip up. The rest we drove through at pace! In true African style, don't repair nor despair, just make another road around the potholes! Brilliant! Never mind that African...

Elephants - up close and personal Having to wait 4 hours in the blazing Zambian sun, after a sleepless night on a bus, while Customs processed the stupid, mentally challenged, cerebrally limited passengers who tried to smuggle undeclared goods through the border, was almost forgotten when we were with the elephants. How could you describe an interaction with this creature? It would be easy to say what the skin felt like with it's rough protruding hairs, or that...