ZAMBIA'S RECIPE
Preparing time:
23 days on spot, or 2577 kms travelled
Cooking time:
55 hours and 30 minutes spent in 36 different transports
Ingredients:
1 helicopter
4 buses
1 minibus
16 taxis
14 bicycles-taxis
Seasonings:
15 tarantulas at least
2 days to learn the local greetings (including daily questions)
6 unexpected awakenings at 7am in the morning with a loud “BREAKFAST IS READY” at our bedroom’s door because the hotel decided it was time for us to eat breakfast
10 daily hours of power failures, including:
3 meals cooked on charcoal stoves
2 very profitable headlamps
1 essential external battery (RIP to our second one lost in the Philippines)
many cold showers
50 hassles with the service providers (buses, hotels, restaurants, administration), unable to respect the delays and lying constantly about them, involving:
4 hours of waiting after a ghost bus
1 meal ordered at 1pm and delivered at 11pm
30 minutes of waiting (AT LEAST) for every booked taxi
1 Covid test with unbelievable sanitation conditions and results that travelled across the whole country
150 harassing messages to reach our goals (this is the only way)
100 less hair/person from pulling them out
1 iced AND non drinkable bottle of water, not digested at all by Anouck, followed by
1 hotel with all the staff panicking and wearing masks (for once), thinking she caught Covid19
15 minutes of helicopter flight on top of the Victoria Falls
1 public presentation at the church
20 nshimas eaten with our hands
1 handful of habitual cockroaches
2 babies carried the African way
Method (overview):
NAKONDE
Acclimatization phase (customs, local currency, food)
LUSAKA
Visit of the national museum retracing the country's history
KATETE
Voluntering in an NGO fighting poverty (article available HERE)
Immersion in the local life (bicycles-taxis, meals, church)
LIVINGSTONE
Helicopter flight over the Victoria Falls
Half-day at the site on foot
The bill (for 2): 691€
Positive feedback:
The possibility to learn and exchange culturally
The locals' kindness
Zero feeling of oppression
Country off the beaten tracks, so very authentic
Negative feedback:
A life paced by the many power failures
The never-ending lies concerning the delays
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