With Nanzhila Basic school in my mind, I hopped again into the strong Japanese Land Cruiser. Again two hours jumping in the back wrapped in all the blankets we could get.
Aircraft fit for flight, farewell to our new friends, and we set course to Livingstone. Victoria falls this time on the ground. An opportunity to charge batteries, relax and reflect.
Livingstone was one of the first Westerners to make a transcontinental journey across Africa, Luanda on the Atlantic to Quelimane on the Indian Ocean near the mouth of the Zambezi, in 1854–56. Despite repeated European attempts, especially by the Portuguese, central and southern Africa had not been crossed by Europeans at that latitude owing to their susceptibility to malaria, dysentery and sleeping sickness which was prevalent in the interior and which also prevented use of draught animals (oxen and horses), as well as to the opposition of powerful chiefs and tribes, such as the Lozi, and the Lunda of Mwata Kazembe.
Some needed adrenaline
This place is awesome.
Time to rest.
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