Day 7 - Livingstone, Zambia

We rise about 06h30 and Denise makes us a great Sunday breakfast and then we travel the 22kms into Livingstone and Victoria Falls from the Zambia side. Zambian residents pay ZKw7 and tourists pay ZKw100 (R200 or US$20) I have to tell you there is very little that you are permitted to pay in any other currency but Kwacha in Zambia by law.

There is still a fair amount of water flowing over the falls so the spectacle was still very impressive and we had never seen it from this side some interesting facts about the falls:-

Max height: 108m (360ft)

Width: 1708m (5604ft)

Max flow rate: 3000m3/sec Min flow rate: 300m3/sec

The local Zambian’s are discontented, with unemployment a problem and other than mines there appears to be little foreign investment and the Chinese have a strong presence, which the local Zambians dislike as they only employ their own.

We spent 4 hours at the falls and then had an Italian pizza at Olga’s.

Denise gleaned some gen on the Livingstone to Lusaka road, which could see us having a slow frustrating trip with sections badly potholed and other sections under construction both for some considerable distance. We will update you on that at a later time.

We had been warned about speed traps and road blocks and I trust I am not tempting fate when I say we have been treated with courtesy and respect as we have treated the police or military in the same way and we are very careful not to give then any excuse to find fault with us including sticking to the speed limits. All in all it is going well.   

Will post photo's of Vic Falls and others at next opportunity and tell you about our trip up to Lusaka on Day 8, we are on our way to the South Luwangwa where we are staying at Flatdogs Camp for 3 days, hopefully we can communicate from there. Love to you all from us at Wimpy Lusaka.