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...