Monday 29th October

Today O’Brian the barman is our guide, we go to visit the Falls. A tourist day. We go there by taxi.

taxi

To enter the bridge we have to go through the customs, the bridge is between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The bridge is built in 1905 and 111meters high.
You can bungee jump off the bridge.

bridge

height

I decided to jump, after putting your signature on a dozen forms you get a number and your weight on your arm.
Up to the jumping spot.

weight and nr

First they fix you in a harnass and put the elastic at your legs

bonded

Then you must stand on the plateau with your toes over the edge, that means you have to look down….Damn, its high!

They count from 5 to 0, at 0 you must jump as far as you can.

jump 01

Waaaaaaauuuuuuwwwww!
It takes a while before the elastic gets you, and you create a very high speed.. then the elastic grabs your legs, and you go up again.

jump 02

jump 03

jump 04

After this they pick you up, and take you to the bridge again.
What an experience!!!

hooked

done

After this huge adrenaline shot, we go to the Falls.

In this period of the year the Falls are very small. When the rainseason has started (in about 3 weeks) the Falls will do 700 million liter per second.

From the Zambia side you can’t see the big part of it.

small fall

But now we can walk to the Livingstone Island. Its about 1 hour walking over the dry Falls.

walk to island

fisherman

The views are great.

DirkenbijFalls

livingstone Island

From the Livingstone Island, we can swim to the DevilsPool, thats a 5 meter deep pool just aside the Falls, with a big edge right before the falls.

devils pool

We jump in it. Really refreshing!

bommetje

At the edge you can sit with your back towards the fall.

sit at edge

You can also watch over the edge, 90meters high!

on the edge

On our way back a guard with gun walks with us to protect us, because elephants like the fresh water, especially now when the sun goes down.

guard

At night, during a fresh beer, the power shuts down. Later we hear that elephants has broken the power line.

See if they visit us tonight again..

DJ

Sunday 28th october

We have a nice place in the shadow.

Dirk cleans the air filter of the T Ford and Dirk-jan the air filter of the Land Rover.

Dirk

Dirk-jan

At 10.00 we leave from the campsite to Livingstone. We drive on good roads and we see nice villages.

road

huts

Dirk has a lot of power today, we go 83 km per hour!

km

Inge tries her mobile office for the first time.

mobilele office

We drive through a piece of land that is set on fire, you feel the heat in the car.

fire

At 14.45 we arrived in Livingstone, we drove today 199 km.

It’s very hot today, less shadow, we search for a place to put our tent. We are warned that this place is in the walking line of the elephants. We can put our tents by a house with a toilet and shower. This place is more save.

At night Dirk calls us, he heard the elephants. They are close by. Were going to sit with Trudy and Dirk in the roof tent. There are 4 elephants walking around us, one is 1 meter from hour car. His back is the same height as the top of the roof tent. Huge! Very exiting!

Inge

Saturday 27th october

At 9 o’clock we leave from Lusaka. We drive in 2 days to Livingstone. There are a lot of people on the road who likes the Model T

traffic

When were leaving town we see a post office, we post our postcards.

postoffice

At the side of the road you can buy a chicken to go!

chickens

In the morning has Dirk not so much power, we say that at the coffee break. Dirk does not agree, but after the coffee we go a lot faster.

Dirk+Trudy

The first time we see a train on the railway, it just broke down. Passengers are waiting with their luggage under a tree.

train

At 17.00 we are in Choma, 2km off road.

model T

We arrived at Gwebe Safaris Campsite, according the lonely planet 2003 are the bathrooms spotless…

spotless bath

We are the only customers, there is nothing to get. We make a mobile office.

mobile office

Today we drove 296 km.

Tomorrow we go to Livingstone.

DJ en Inge

Friday 26th October

At 6 in the morning the guards are standing beside our balcony, the LandRover is washed, if I could check it.

guards

Today we’re going to visit a SOS village.

Peter, welcomes us there, and he has a full program for today, starting around the ModelT. Children of all age categories, make a show of singing and dancing.

Really a happening.

zang

dans1

dans2

dans3

After this show, we do the children greet on the Ford, with the smallest kids of the village. A lot of them houses in the Ford..

kindergroet2

kindergroet1

Peter shows us around, there are 15 houses. Each house has one mother and about 10 to 12 kids.

house

mother and kid

When the kids reaches the age of 16 they go on ´themselves´ in pairs of two. We visit a couple of them. The girls stay there until they are at the age of 23.

girls

During the tour at the schoolsite, we are very lucky, the students do their test for the exam, we can test their menu that they cooked.

They passed!!

electro

After a tour through the professional medical center, we go to Peters office. Here we give the presents we took from Holland to the big mamma of the village.

Big Mama

In the evening Inge makes some nice hamburgers at the balcony of the hotel.

hamburgers

Tomorrow we go in the direction of Livingstone.

Inge en DJ

Thursday 25th October

This night it was very hot. 35 degrees..

At 5.30 we go out and drink a cup of tea, and start our day.

The shower is set on fire for hot water.

hout gestookte douche

Dirk does the maintenance of the modelT

Dirk + Ford

Inge writes some postcards for the Family.

kaarten schrijven

At 9:30 we go off

Dirk and Inge are the T team today

Dirk+Inge

It’s cloudy today, very nice. Some Africans wear coats.

Aside the road we see lovely villages

hutjes

Because of the good temp. the Ford doesn’t have to cool down, we can do a lot of km’s.

Ford heuvels

The Ford Runs like hell, 83.. so he has to break for 80.

remmen

It’s not always sunny in the open car..

roethappen

At 15:30 we arrive in Lusaka and go to the SOS village. Peter, the director is waiting for us. And brings us to a hotel in town. The cars are safe here, 3 guards.

SOS dorp

auto’s hotel

Today we did 251km

Tomorrow we go for a visit at the SOS village.

DJ and Inge

Wednesday 24 October

Today we start to go to Lusaka its about 560km total, so we want to do it in 2 days.
The campsite we’re going for is 330km.

Because we want to do this big distance, we leave early. 8:30.
Close to the campsite is a cotton fabric.

katoenfabriek

Untill 10 o’clock the temperature is nice. After 10 it’s getting hot again. The roof goes on and the hood goes off.

T Ford

The view is nice but the road is full of put holes. Even though we hit the 80 km per hour!

80 km

The villages look more orgenised than before, we see the kids getting lessons outside.

school

Finally we cross the Luanga River, over a big bridge. At 16.00 we are on the campsite.

brug

We cool down in the swimming pool, with a beautiful view over the river. At the other site of the river it is Mozambique.
You can get there without a visa, but you will be eaten by crocodiles.

mozambique

Today we have a new Record! We did 354 km!
Tomorrow we go to Lusaka, 260 km

DJ en Inge

Tuesday 23th October

Today we go back to Chipata, picking up the ModelT.

During the night a hippo was grazing 5 meters beside the tent. We are happy we putted the tent above FloorLevel.

hippo

Baboons are all over the place in the morning.

baboons

baboons

After a refreshment in the pool, we go for the road, a 130km of bad road.

pool

We are very fast today off road. 45min faster than 2 days before.

Dirk has a good conversation with Kees.

gesprek kees

When we arrive at the MammaRulas campsite at 1500 we decide to stay there this night

campsite

Today we did a 145km,

Tomorrow we go in the direction of Lusaka, probably 3 of driving, 520km

Monday 22 October

At 6 o clock we go to South Luangwa Park, immediately we see Zebra’s Giraffes and many others.

giraffe

zebra

buffalo

springbok

baboon

wrattenzwijn

Yesterday evening, the Lions cached a buffalo, now the corpse is eaten by Hyena’s and Vultures.

gieren

hyena

The Lions are sleeping under a tree, with a very big stomach. The guide tells us that when they have eaten a Buffalo, they sleep for 5 days, only drinking water, and maybe a little snack..

lion

After a lunch and dive in the swimming pool, we go for the night safari. We have a beautiful sunset.

sunset

The Lions have changed there sleeping place to the waterside.

lion at night

hippo

After this, we ride through the park with a big searching light. Another guide tips us that there’s a Leopard a little bit further, we go there and see him, really beautiful and special to see it this close!

luipaard

Today was really amazing with all those animals, and that all on the other side of the river of our Campsite, in that river are a lot of Hippos, and 3 crocodiles. Amazing.

Sunday 21th October 

Today is Willy’s birthday, so we make a phonecall and sing happy birthday for her.

Today we go to Mfue, about 130km north,

We leave the Model T at this campsite for 2 days and go with the LandRover, to Mfue to do a Safari inSouthLuangwaNational Park. 

Dirk adjusts the steering of the Ford. 

And after this we cover the Ford and at 13:30 we go. 

FordCovered

The first 40km is tarmack, after this all is Offroad.

After 4hours bumping we arrive at the Campsite.

Elephants are walking around and destroyed the furniture of the neighbours.

We decide to put the tent in a ‘tower’ a very nice and safe place. 

tent

Today we did 130km, we go to bed early. Tomorrow at 6 we go on safari! 

DJ