March 2020 has been a very challenging month for Big Bertha. We flew back to Zambia in early March, having celebrated David’s parents’ diamond wedding anniversary in the UK, and headed north east towards the waterfalls. The rains have been exceptional this year and the water table has risen, making the dirt roads very fragile. We ended up getting stuck […]
We were wondering whether we should make the 485km return trip to Livingstone from Lusaka to see the Victoria Falls. After all, we’d be visiting the Zimbabwean side later in the year. However, with a week to kill before flying back to the UK, we decided to go for it and boy, are we glad that we did! We visited […]
Chimfunshi, the world’s largest chimpanzee sanctuary, is not exactly on the tourist trail, being located smack bang in the middle of the Zambian copperbelt in the north of Zambia. We weren’t sure what to expect and almost didn’t bother visiting, it being 15km or so into the bush up a dirt track. But we are so glad we did. Meeting […]
It’s big for starters, about three times the size of the UK, but with a quarter of the UK’s population. However, the population is forecast to triple by 2050 (that’s thirty years from now!); clearly there are big challenges ahead for this country where the average salary is £118/month or around £4/day (this would be a lot less in the […]
We both wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We shall be spending our Christmas day at the Kansanshi hotel in the northern Zambian mining town of Solwezi. Our hosts, David and Veroncia, have made us feel very welcome and have very kindly let us park Big Bertha in their car park for the duration. […]