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 […]