Category: Zambia

False speeding tickets, overcharging for camping and very poor facilities. Zambia was not my favourite place at the moment. We drove away from the Bengweulu Swamps with a very bad taste in our mouths, increasingly keen to get out of this country and into somewhere that would be more friendly towards visitors. We had a…

So far we had been enjoying our time in Zambia. The area around the Lower Zambezi was very beautiful with lovely campsites and friendly people. However after leaving the capital for the north east our first campsite had been more than a little disappointing. We spent the next morning applying for our Malawian visas online…

We had left the wonderful Zimbabwe behind and were about to enter Zambia – a country which we had not been sure we wanted to visit at all. Tales from other travellers of corruption at the border, and at police checkpoints, along with tsetse flies and animals poached almost to extinction had put us off.…