Kategorie: Sambia
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Unplanned stopover
We have left Lusaka for the northeast. Our thanks go to the EU, who financed restauration of the infamous „Great East Road“. Less good: Our refrigerator is broken, it works with an external power supply, but not with the 24 volts of the on-board batteries. So we removed it overnight and operated it outside. Asking…
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Living in a wilderness park
We are in the Luangwa Valley, more precisely in the South Luangwa National Park, the most famous animal sanctuary of Zambia. Again a „wilderness park“, without fences, visits of animals of all kinds not excluded. First, however, no animals, but an insight, how we live here. Wir sind im Luangwa-Tal, genauer im South Luangwa-Nationalpark, dem…
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Leopards / Leoparden
Would you stop below this tree? ….. Unser Suchbild: Würdet Ihr hier anhalten? A tree for cat lovers: A leopard mother with her about six months old boy (or girl?) lying in the tree together with her „kill“, an antelope. We passed it five times in the course of the day, just couldn’t get enough of…
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North Luangwa National Park
We decided to extend the adventure scale and drove to North Luangwa National Park – considered to be one of the last „True Wildernesses“ left in Africa. Originally, North Park was to be kept as a „scientific control“ habitat in order to monitor the impact of human activities in South Luangwa. However, in the ‘70s and…
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Buffalo Camp (1)
We spend five days in the wilderness of the North Park: In a community camp where the proceeds from the camp are used to invest in their village school. And at the infamous Buffalo Camp, whose founder was the first fighter against the poachers and who was given the privilege of building a lodge in the…
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Buffalo Camp (2)
The Buffalo Camp is only accessible in the dry season from June to October and is managed by an Irish globetrotter of our age: Mike was in the oil business, worked in the mining industry and caught snakes in South Africa. When he suddenly got a fever during our presence, Ernst could try his malaria…
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The two most frightening animals
If someone asks us in five years which animals have impressed us the most in the Luangwa Valley, the answer would be clear: (a) the tsetse fly – none of us is free of stings. Maartina stopped counting at 50. It itches constantly. However, it is said that the local species are not carriers of…
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Bye Zambia
Ten days in the Luangwa Valley are past. Although none of us is a hygiene fetishist we feel the need for change: The sand and dirt everywhere, the shower water from the deep brown Luangwa and the annoying tsetse flies arouse the desire and anticipation for a beautiful hotel with clear water, air conditioning and…
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Border Crossing
Wir haben Lilongwe gen Westen verlassen und sind nach einer Stunde an der Grenze von Malawi nach Sambia. Das Schild „One stop border post“ lässt auf unkomplizierte Prozesse hoffen. Leider ist bisher nur das Schild fertig, das Gebäude noch im Rohbau. Wir stöhnen über 12 Anlaufstationen, die wir gemeinsam mit amerikanischen Missionaren, afrikanischen LKW-Fahrern und…