On the Road

Shy Charcoal Salesmen
Originally uploaded by Kolleggerium.

A flight from Lusaka to Livingstone would have cost about $150 and taken an hour, but the schedule is limited and of course I'd miss seeing the country. A train should have been perfect, but the British colonial engineers left a rail that takes 12 hours to cover the same distance. The luxury bus of death I rode on cruised at 140+km/h, weaving around other vehicles while the driver bopped to his one tape of hip-hop, stopping in every small village along the way, yet arriving in Livingstone in about 5 hours.

Though Zambians complain about the miles and miles of boring countryside, newness and growing familiarity endears most anything, and I loved the rural setting. Finally, Zambia.