Awoke to find our friendly camp site dog from last night had been guarding us from the wild animals overnight.
He also gave me a guarded patrol to and from the shower block as well post breakfast.
Another day of driving to get us from Lasaka to Livingstone which is about 450kms and should take around 8 hours and mostly good sealed roads but as usual watch out for the crazy truck and bus drivers.
Had a good drive out of Lasaka at 7.30am as the other direction into town was bumper to bumper which is why they stay on the south side of town to not get blocked in the morning commute into town. Got to the turn off for Livingstone where there is a truck weight bridge where lots of semi's where banked back awaiting their turn to go through.Nothing is a fast process in Africa.
As usual the popular selling items of mushrooms and charcoal where on sale along with pottery and wood carvings today
Through a few police check points without being stopped and then through lots of small towns going slow to get over their rumble bars and speed bumps with the hiace vans stopping to pick up customers whilst the local people sold their food items
Made it into Choma town which is about half way at 11.30 to stop at the local museum for a quick lunch which consisted of some hot chips and the beer battered fish and salad from last night
The museum grounds containe 3 eleven tonne steel balls that were connected together and then dragged by bulldozers to clear the land for the Kariba Dam in 1957.
Just out of town our outbound lane ground to a halt for a protest match by the local woman( not sure what about) so we went off road and along the old original dirt road beside the new one rather than get delayed for an hour waiting for them to finish.
Lots of "Jims Lawn Mowing Crews" out today cutting the grass with specially made grass machetes. This is a regular sight in most of the countries we have been through with the collecting of the grass post cutting to use or sell for fodder.
Made great time and got into Livingstone about 3 pm due to very little traffic other than mostly semi's and trucks coming from Zimbabwe and after a quick stop at the local supermarket ( with the most parking lot security I had seen so far) went to the sister lodge of Bushfront Camp where we were staying to organise or activity over the next 3 days in Livingstone. Took us about 30mins to decide and book for -
Victoria Falls Bridge Walk and Steam train degustation dinner for Saturday
Helicopter and Sunset Cruise for Sunday
Devils island and Victoria Falls walk on Monday
Livingstone is named after the famous British explorer Dr David Livingstone, who explored this area extensively,Livingstone Town was established in 1905.Livingstone is considered the gateway between central and Southern Africa .
As a major European steel meant,being close to the Zambezi River crossing over to southern Rhodesia,the tow was made the capital of Northern Rodesia in 1911.As the capital,it enjoyed excellent facilities far superior to anything else in the country and had the distinction of having the countries first newspaper.The capital was moved to Lusaka in 1935 however the proximity to the Zambezi river and spectacular Victoria Falls has lead Livingstone to become a major tourist attraction to see this Wonder of the World.
Set up Bushfront campsite which was just down the road from Riverfront where we made the bookings. View of Amanda's kitchen to the right and the showers area and our camp site in the background. Had the whole place to ourselves again.
Enjoyed charcoal fired pizzas for dinner and then off to bed about 10.
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