KAPISHA HOT SPRING

We had a well deserved 2 days at Kapisha hot spring. Making use of the sparkling clean warm healing water. The 6 of us visited the pool as often as we could.

The bird life with exceptional birds you can only see in this part of the world. Wimcar took amazing beautiful photo's. Ross's Turaco Photo Hans spotted a Violet back Starling.

Our camping spot on the river bank under the shady trees was a perfect spot to watch birds and read.

For the Third time Hans tooth crown came loose. Nellie and  Wimcar being the dentist every time .  Nothing easy about this.

 Mark Harvey the owner of Kapisha and his wife are still maintaining the Gore Brown ( their Grandfathers dream 1914) Shiwa Ngandu is back to former glory thanks to Gore Browns grandson and wife Charles ( Charlie) and his wife Jo-Ann Harvey.

Shiwa and Kapisha must be a GPS point on any visit to Africa.  Wimcar stated to Mark " We've visited many places on our trip, but Kapisha and Shiwa are the only once, where he can see improvement." We agree with that. 

Saturday 12 September 2015 with 12,000km on the clock, we left Kapisha at 7:00am. Fringila farm will be our stop tonight so we've to do 500km. Luckily it will be a tar road, max speed 100km. Every town speed limit of 65km. The journey will take us 10 hours.

Hans has booked our camping and ordered T bones and farm vegetables for tonight. Seeing it is Saturday their hospitality exceed our expectations. They will keep our order for us.

Truck after truck - this was reminding us of the prosperity of Zambia. 

Mkushi we saw many commercial working farms. Agri's involvement is visible in this area. We saw 2 bill boards. 

Fringilla farm we got our fresh vegetables and meat. We all agreed it was the best meat we had on this trip, since our meat from home was finish.  Fringilla is still well-kept and business is flourishing. Joseph asked to address us tonight, his last evening. Tomorrow at Lusaka we'll say goodbye. He will get a bus back to  Malawi to his family. After his annual leave he will come back by bus on the 12 October. 

He thanked us all for the privilege to see all the different countries and staying in hotels. We agree it was a very good speech. You could hear it was coming from his heart, how we touched their life's ( him and his family). 

Sunday morning after thanking God. Chris and Julia left for Livingston, we'll meet them there tonight. The rest of us will first organize Joseph at the Mall in Lusaka.

The security guard at the Mall, got Joseph to his taxi. After saying our goodbyes, we went shopping.

517 km to go today

Maramba Camp at Livingston was one of the best ablution facilities we had on our Safari. During the night Hans and Elisme woke up with 2 Hippo's grazing right next to the landy. Amazing how these wild animals just continue with their habits as if humans do not exist. IF YOU DONT DISTURB THEM.

Wimcar and Nellie went to view the Victoria Waterfalls? Although the water level was still very low, it always stays a WORLD WONDER. Beautiful.

Monday 14 Sept was time to cross the border to Botswana at Kazangula. The info we got is that this is now one of the worst crossings.

Hans took the lead and being and old hand in Africa, he sorted the guys. He choose one guy and negotiated with him. His instruction was nobody near us and he takes us threw all procedures and on the Ferry.

Less than an hour later our passports stamped all the. Vehicle  document done and on the ferry. We can strongly recommend to make use of a guide taking you through and pay him a decent fee. He is doing an honest job. The offices have no signage, you've no idea where to go. Truck drivers told us they waited 5 days to do a ferry border crossing. Seeing that only 2 ferry's are working.

Our entree to Botswana was easy, except for them taking our fruit, banana's and Oranges. According to them of the fruit fly spreading. Walk through disinfectant, car search. 

We were ready to say GOODBYE to Chris and Julia. They are going back home now.

Wimcar, Nellie, Hans and Elisme will do the Chobe, Savuti and Swamps.

They camped at Kubu Camp site.