Zambia

So I've made it to Zambia. We're camping in South Lungwa National Park.

We've decided to sleep on a platform in a tree. Find out later whether this got us closer or further from the animals. It reminds me of Yosemite camping, in that you have to lock away the food. Unlike Yosemite, though, at any time an elephant could walk through the middle of the campsite. Fun. Much more fun than my treatment for Bilharzia from Lake Malawi.

It's hard to believe this campsite is so nice, sporting a swimming pool, hot showers, and beautifully executed buildings. It's even more odd in the context of Zambia, a relatively poor country-- the was a marked decline in the condition of the roads when we corssed over from Malawi (and Tanzania for that matter).

I'm really excited to be here and off the beach. Lions, hippos, giraffes...