Zambia

5 years on the road ?

Yes! It’s true! We are already travelling for 5 years with our camper. During that time, we have been to 48 countries, 9 of them in Africa, the rest in Europe including Turkey, Georgia and Armenia. Our camper has now 170,000 km on its speedo, without any technical problem.Many people ask us, which was the …

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Zambia, a summary

it is the first time we make a summary about a country we visited. We had that idea before, but it never happened. Zambia is now the lucky country to get its summary! Border:we entered Zambia from Namibia at Katima Mulilo and left north of Mbala to Tanzania. Katima Mulilo was a bit chaotic, Mbala …

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Lake Tanganyika

We were excited to get to Lake Tanganyika. This big lake in the middle of Africa, part of the Great Rift Valley, sounded like the real African experience we were looking for. Ndole Bay was highly recommended to us by many locals, so we didn’t hesitate to take the long drive to get there. First …

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The Lumangwe Falls

From Kawambwa it was a 80 km drive over a not yet finished road to the Lumangwe and Kabwelume Falls, both on the same river. It seemed the Chinese had built this road, but didn’t get paid, so work was stopped. Now, there is a nearly finished beautiful road, just the tar missing, which can’t …

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@ Lake Bangweulu

From the Kasanka NP we crossed the Bangweulu Wetlands until we reached the shore of the lake, which every year during rainy season rises just one metre to flood an area of 9,000 m2. We spent a relaxed day at the lake before we continued our route. Before 1983 there was no road connecting Mansa …

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Bats @ Kasanka

The Kasanka NP is famous for the bat migration, which takes place every year between mid October and mid December. We had heard that already many bats had arrived and went into the NP, paying 574 Kwacha (35,- US$) for one day entry into the park and 50,- US$ for camping for 1 night. This …

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