Zambia

Today we are in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. It's quite a modern city but outside the city it is quite remote with mostly traditional mud hut villages. To up-date what's been happening, we abandoned our boat trip up Lake Malawi. It turned out that it was very expensive and they would only accept American dollars. So, we decided to stay in Monkey Bay for an extra day. It's a beautiful spot overlooking the lake. Following that we went by matola (truck/taxi) to Cape Maclear and stayed at another very beautiful spot looking out across the lake with islands. There were some very colourful sunsets. We did some exploring about the town. From Cape Maclear were made our way by bus to Lilongwe. Where we were staying we ran into a group of about sixty cyclists doing a 12,000 km ride from Cairo to Cape Town. A number of Canadians were among them and they had lots of tales to tell. That would be quite an experience. It looked very well organized. Up early we again were on the road for a very long bus ride. The scenery was very rural with mostly mud huts. We saw two baboons scamper across the road in front of the bus. Now we are resting a bit at Chachacha's and will soon be heading for Victoria Falls, something we've both been looking forward to. We'd like to up-date more with more detail but we can't always get access to the Internet and it is often very slow when we do. We hope spring weather has arrived at last.