Recharging Our Batteries in Lusaka, Zambia

We’ve spent a relaxed week in Zambia with few things on our agenda other than regrouping for next travels. Archie and Blessing helped us to navigate across the border from Zimbabwe to Zambia last Saturday, Feb. 2nd, and since then we’v just been hanging out. We spent an evening in Livingstone before boarding the 7 hour bus to Lusaka, Zambia’s capitol, on Sunday morning. For the past several days we’ve been staying at the ChaChaCha Backpackers in town. We’ve run a few errands, such as having more pages put into our passport at the US Embassy, obtaining visas at the Tanzanian Embassy, as well as sorting out laundry and cash before heading on to Tanzania. We’ve finally decided that we’ll head up to Kapiri Mposhi tomorrow morning to catch the Tazara train, or Kilimanjaro Express, to Dar Es Salaam. It should be an interesting 48 hours (or more) on the train as we travel through northern Zambia and Tanzania, but we both agreed that flying would lessen the adventure ! There is so much of Africa to see and we’d hate to miss any opportunity to truly experience it. Since this week has been fairly uneventful, I thought I’d share some photos of our accommodations in Zambia since we’ve had a few questions about what it’s really like. I think we’ll continue to shield you from the true reality of dirty showers, bathrooms without toilet paper and sometimes the general lack of cleanliness...but this is Africa and we have no expectations. We’re just happy to be experiencing it ! See more photos. On a side note, Scott is absolutely killing me in Gin Rummy in Zambia...he may finally win a country;)