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Overlanding Africa: Tips and Reviews
Blog: WildJunket - 4 April 2012
At the end of 2011, I spent a month traveling overland through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Zambia with G Adventures. This was definitely one of the best trips of my life: experiencing the backcountry of Southern Africa, camping out in the wild, meeting lifelong friends – all of which I would have missed
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Football cup success puts Zambia back on the map
Blog: HAPPYTIMEBLOG - 20 February 2012
Backpacking around the world HappytimeBlog | Football cup success puts Zambia back on the map10 interesting facts about the country which has just been crowned African Cup of Nations champions
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Passports With Purpose Round Three: Pearls for Libraries in Zambia
Blog: Coconut Radio - 2 December 2011
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savoring zambia
Blog: The Road Forks - 6 September 2011
savoring zambia September 6, 2011 a cooking class
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three perspectives of victoria falls
Blog: The Road Forks - 30 August 2011
three perspectives of victoria falls August 30, 2011 in zambia, zimbabwe, and livingstone island
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AK-47s and the Smoke that Thunders – Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls
Blog: Vagobond.com - 5 June 2011
Victoria Falls are a UNESCO World Heritage site that straddles the boarders of Zambia and Zimbabwe. Here the Zambezi river drops almost 400 feet across a 1 mile wide face into a remarkably small cut in the earth, making it the largest falls in the world.
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Departing Kapiri Mposhi
Blog: Where the road goes - 16 September 2010
There are the days, The ones we will remember forever Tired eyes bear that same light Inexhaustible Tight corners at the smiles Reflected in the tears that never age The laughter and the pain of these days… The Kapiri Mposhi station stands as the whitest of elephants in the literal Zambian bush. It’s a squarest [...]
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How to Name Your Compound: place names in Zambia
Blog: PocketCultures - 12 July 2010
Main food market in Lusaka by Cordelia Person on Flickr
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The Victoria Falls
Blog: Ketchup With Aubs - 26 May 2010
Back in 2006 K and i travelled to Canada to check out Niagara Falls. Despite the rather Disney-style setting we were both impressed.
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The Chitenge - A Zambian fashion essential
Blog: PocketCultures - 19 May 2010
When I lived in the more rural area of Eastern Province in Zambia there was a nearby hospital that regularly had volunteers from abroad. We would often see them walking down the road, enjoying the sunshine in their shorts or mini-skirts.
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I traveled through Africa…
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 10 May 2010
…and all I got was this lousy tropical disease. I knew I was sick when I came home, but I was hesitant to go to a doctor—I was back in the land of expensive health bills and rampant insurance costs. … Continue reading →I traveled through Africa… is a post from: Nilikuta Shani
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Nshima and Zambia’s food culture
Blog: PocketCultures - 21 April 2010
As I walked past the ever-expanding Manda Hill shopping centre one lunch-time, I caught the smell of wood smoke and food. Surprised, I looked around to find the source. In the corner of the construction site were a group of builders in blue uniforms involved in the important business of cooking nshima.
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Arrival Cape Town/ Ending the journey of a lifetime
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 12 April 2010
Finally the day came when my Africa Adventure ended—after 6 short weeks (9, including the 3 weeks I spent in Uganda), my overland trip was coming to a rather uneventful close. My face was glued to the window as we … Continue reading →Arrival Cape Town/ Ending the journey of a lifetime is a post from: Nilikuta Shani
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The Rains Continue in Zambia
Blog: PocketCultures - 22 March 2010
In all the years we lived in Zambia we have never seen rains like this season has brought. Our lawn has become waterlogged and is actually growing algae, the old abandoned pool on our compound has become a dark green lagoon. Water is gushing through drains and across roads. Credit.
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Zambian dried fish
Blog: PocketCultures - 12 March 2010
This photo of dried fish in Zambia was contributed by Liz Watkin. Thanks for sharing, Liz! Does anyone know what kind of fish it is?
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Crossing to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 3 March 2010
As I‘ve mentioned before, the majority of my work at the South African human rights NGO involved rights abuses committed against Zimbabwean refugees living in central Johannesburg. In the course of my work I got to know several of the clients I saw on a regular basis, and would often listen to stories of what [...]
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Driving through Zambia/ Arrival Livingstone
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 1 March 2010
I’d be lying through my teeth if I said that this overland trip is non-stop fun. In fact, as I learned from the outset, getting to the exciting places meant long, harrowing drives through hour after hour of the same scenery. The past few days have been a test of endurance and character, with day [...]
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Oh The Mice I Have Seen
Blog: Where the road goes - 10 February 2010
For your entertainment and at least partly for my nostalgia, I kept a list traveling from Cape Town to Cairo of various interesting statistics. It makes for a colourful two minute retelling of the course of events. Cockroaches seen in hotel rooms: On at least four different occasions. Once occasion provided at least three individuals. Mice seen in [...]
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Traveling Off the Beaten Path/ Watching my bank account bleed dry
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 18 December 2009
I have to confess that I really haven’t really traveled off the beaten path before I began this yearlong adventure. When I was living in England I was able to travel a bit through Europe, but I never considered those trips the sort that required any real forethought—planning in advance consisted of finding my passport [...]
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9 Weeks Through Africa/ The trip of a lifetime? Hope so.
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 15 December 2009
On January 17th, 2010, after spending 3 weeks in Uganda, I get picked up in Nairobi, Kenya, for a 6-week overland trip through Southern Africa—from Kenya, we drive down to Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, and finish the journey in Cape Town, South Africa. Epic! I always fancied the idea of traveling extensively through Africa, [...]
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Chikuni Mission, Chisikesi
Blog: Where the road goes - 26 November 2009
After on and off storms chasing my activities at Livingstone, it was an African-blue sky that watched over the hours-long bus ride from Livingstone to Lusaka. Lusaka would not be my destination today though. A tiny dot of a town – nay, a village – called Chisekesi would be my final hop off point. “Are [...]
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Parting Underneath the Flame Trees
Blog: Where the road goes - 26 November 2009
The flame trees outside the Dar es Salaam train station are some of the most beautiful plants i’ve seen in days – more so as their orange flowers lick the deep blue of the sky, cloudless. It’s hardly fitting that here, in this loud and beautiful contrast of colours, our family must come to an [...]
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Livingstone, I presume?
Blog: Where the road goes - 18 November 2009
For the abysmal failure at a-post-a-day, I apologise. Partly finding Internet is not so easy (what was I thinking), but its also been perfectionism on my part at not being able to really tell the stories as what they mean, more than simple narrative. I realise now that the reflective stuff on what it all [...]
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A New Chapter for Zhou and the Zambezi
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 17 November 2009
10/21/09: Livingstone, Zambia Today Zhou was given a birthday cake and a card signed by our 20 newest friends. These are 20 people who probably wouldn’t have made our wedding invite list if we had expanded it to half a billion guests, yet now I wish a lot of them could have been there. It’s amazing what [...]
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Victoria Falls If She’s Not Careful
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 16 November 2009
10/20/09: Livingstone, Zambia What would you do if someone asked you to swim up to the crest of the biggest waterfall in the world and peer over the edge? I would want to know how far over I can look. This morning seven of us piled into taxis headed for the Royal Livingstone Hotel, a facility that rightfully [...]
