1 November 2010 - Livingstone - Waterfront Campsite & Livingstone Royal Golf Club

·        Today I hit the Royal Livingstone Golf Course for a round with some of the group. Clare was my official caddie!

·        The course wasn’t great – really dry and overgrown and the greens were just awful – managed to shoot 87 which wasn’t too bad in the end

·        Dinner was at a community project pizza place – the ride home was priceless – the taxi driver was playing Kenny Rogers on his tape deck so we ended up singing The Gambler the whole way home 

31 October 2010 - Livingstone - Waterfront Campsite & Victoria Falls

 

·        ANOTHER day of driving – this time from Lusaka – the capital of Zambia and heading to Livingstone

·        Arrived at Victoria Falls mid afternoon – given that it is not the wet season the falls from the Zambia side weren’t that impressive

·        Campsite at Victoria Falls was huge and really busy. Was also full of cheeky monkeys!

28, 29 & 30 October 2010 - Driving Days

·        Driving days, from Malawi into Zambia. Staying at campsites again, one of which had heaps of resident zebras

27 October 2010 - Lake Malawi

·        Went for a dive this morning in Lake Malawi – my first freshwater dive and also an altitude dive. Not a great deal to see but good fun

·       Rest of the day was spent chilling on the beach. A couple of the guys rowed out to the island (where I did my morning dive) on a local boat

·        Dinner in the home of a local family - traditional African food eaten on the ground on straw mats

26 October 2010 - Lake Malawi / Day Care Centre

·        Visited a day care centre (children 2-5 years) based on Kande Beach set up and run by an Australian lady using private donations

·        The kids were great fun, showing us their songs and dances they had learnt. So well behaved at queuing for their morning porridge

·        Before dinner we had a surprise mock wedding ceremony for Rory and Kate and got into the mood in our cross dressing outfits – mine was particularly bad - thankfully we didn’t have our camera there that night and haven’t managed to get copies yet so no incriminating photos to upload I’m afraid!

·        Pig spit roast for dinner this evening (mmmm crackling!)

25 October 2010 - Lake Malawi / Mzuzu Market

·        Driving day before arriving at Kande Beach on Lake Malawi

·        Stopped off en route to buy a fancy dress outfit for our ‘African Party’ tomorrow (each person on the trip picked a name out of a hat and bought an outfit for that person) – cross dressing was the order of the day

·        Stopped off at a craft market for some serious haggling

·        As always, we’re a novelty for the locals – we are known as ‘Mzungos’ to them! One of the guys played soccer with the locals when we stopped at one of the markets

·        Clare finally convinced me to ditch the tent and upgrade to a cabin – smart move in the end as it came with a fan and from what we heard the rest of the crew suffered big time in their tents!

24 October 2010 - Driving Day

·        Driving day

·        Caught sight of Lake Malawi, the calendar lake 52 miles wide and 365 miles long

·        Kate and Rory (Australian couple on our trip) got engaged this morning (her birthday) so it was a party vibe on the truck all day and the beers (and shots) flowed that night