Friday September 13th I, Anja and Anita took a
bus with 12 English volunteers (who works for Sport in Action) to Livingstone
for the weekend. On the road I got a phone call from Norway and it turned
out to be from the Norwegian news, they had seen my YouTube video I posted
earlier that week, and they wanted to write an article about it.
Here is the video I posted from my summer holiday in
Fresvik, which caught the news’ attention.
The bus ride took us about 8 hours, but it didn’t feel that long,
since we bought some drinks and food on the road. When we arrived, at 5:45 PM
we met the Norwegians who are placed around Livingstone, Markus &
Helene which are placed in town, and Ida & Morten who are placed in the
bush. It was great to meet them again, and share experiences after 4 weeks
working for our organizations and living with new families in a new environment.
We had dinner at a Italian restaurant before we went to bed at Livingstone Backpackers.
On Saturday I went white water rafting with the English in
the morning. It was so much fun, I’ve never rafted before so this was a great
experience. We rafter for about 1.5 hours in the Zambezi river just below the
Victoria Falls, and I was in the same boat as a Swiss family who I later met
at the Backpackers, great people. I wore
my GoPro camera, while rafting and got some good shots.
After the rafting we met up with the Norwegians and went on
a sunset cruise on the river, just above the falls, where the water is much
calmer. We saw lots of hippos and elephants while we relaxed and ate on the
boat.
On Sunday us Norwegians had a nice dinner at The Royal
Livingstone Hotel in the sunset just by the falls. Here, at this 5 star hotel,
zebras and giraffes are strolling in the gardens. It is so cool to be so close
to the animals. We were all tired from Saturday, so not much else happened that
Sunday.
On Monday, we were planning on going on the bus at 11 AM and
head straight home, but that didn’t happen. Before we got out of Livingstone
the Immigrant Police stopped our bus, asking for our passports. Most of us didn’t
have our passports on us, so we had to get the papers sent from Lusaka.
Thankfully we had some people that could help us copying and e-mailing the
papers to the Immigrant Officer. 3 hours, and 400 Kwatcha (£50) later we were back on the road.
Start on our rafting. You can see the bridge in the background where people bungee jump from
Loving my GoPro camera.
Got through the first bit, but not dry
There is a lot of water in the Zambezi river
Not everyone managed to stay in their boat. Here we are helping a British lad who didn't want to get eaten by crocodiles
Getting ready!
Dennis, who is on my left side, got splashed a few times
The Brits were pretty happy about their day
Bomb squat. The top list. Here I'm pointing at the second best Scandinavian, who was the best before I showed up ;)
On our way back home. Waiting 3 hours on the side of the road to continue. Immigration Police, come oooon....
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