Yet again a journey made for one of my more interesting experiences. We had decided to leave early for Botswana because it is a bit of a trek and we had been warned that transport in Botswana can be slow/difficult. We got a taxi to the border and then crossed, what is apparently the shortest international border in the world (about 750M) by ferry. We then arrived in Botswana and entered the country without major incident. We then got in a taxi to Kasane where we ...

So we stayed on the bus all night - I didn't sleep very much! Then we left on time (well an hour later than we thought but that is on time nowadays) and headed for Lusaka - we had planned on staying there but we arrived at 12 and decided we'd power through to Livingstone, so after 2 hours respite we hopped on another stuffy bus and headed for Livingstone. So we arrived in Livingstone around 10pm (about 29 hours after we left south Luangwa), tired, cranky and hung...

As often is the case with travelling, it's the actual journeys that make for some of the more interesting stories.So as I'd said we had arranged a lift for 5 of us in a jeep for 7am. The driver Moffat said he'd some at half 6 so we could get on the road as early as possible before it got too hot (Zambia is really hot, like over 40 most days I'm worried I might burst into flames). However a Swiss couple arrived at the hostel after we'd agreed this hoping to go to ...

Needless to say after our night of boozing we set off for the border a tad later than planned - we had hoped to go straight to South Luangwa where the national park is but given our late start we headed for Chipata the first town on the Zambian side of the border. So overland border crossing number 2 - this was an even more straight forward experience than my first land border. It's also a little treat the Irish people get into Zambia for free (almost all other n...

So we spent the night in Nkhata bay and then left early in the morning for Lilongwe, this is a bit of a mission involving a local bus to Mzuzu (there was no chicken but worry not, there was a kitten roaming around) followed by a proper bus to Lilongwe (chicken present - so all was right with the world once again). There were five of us who'd been to Ruarwe travelling together so it takes some of the stress out of the trip and also helps to keep taxi costs down.We...