Lusaka – Chipata
354 Miles
Steph:
Today we left Lusaka. Our home away
from home in Africa. Gigi was kind enough to give us a ride to the
bus station at 430am and it was tough saying goodbye. I'm excited to
have new friends though and can't wait to see them all again.
The reason we're taking a bus to
Chipata (border with Malawi) is because we don't have time to cycle
the 354 miles to Malawi before our visa here in Zambia expires. I'm
going to be honest and say that I don't really mind. It's a hilly way to Chipata and the road is not that great from what we've heard,
so we might as well, right?
Right. :)
Erik:
Yeah, Gigi gave us a ride this morning
which was very sweet. The bus station was just as crazy busy at 4am
as it was yesterday afternoon when we bought the tickets. We got on
the bus, stored our bikes safely underneath with all our luggage and
left relatively on time.
We then got to listen to 7 hours
straight of Zambian gospel music. Along with the music videos. It was
interesting and at least not in English. The country side was
marvelous. Rolling, jungly hills and huge rocks shooting out of the
greenery. Steph needed to pee the whole time and here's why:
We stopped once for a potty break in
the middle of nowhere. Everyone piled off the bus to pee. The dudes
street side and the ladies behind the bus. Steph went out with
everyone but when she got back she seemed upset. It turns out all the
women were just squatting in the long grass and she tried to go but
got gunshy and "just couldn't". Haha! So she had 5 more
hours of waiting.
Getting off the bus was a circus. But
we pulled it off ok. There were a bunch of guys offering to take us
on their taxi. They wouldn't accept the fact that we had bicycles and
didn't need a taxi. Even while they watched us pull them off the bus
and load them up. We road around town for a while and ended up
staying at a pretty posh place with Airconditioning. I'm glad we did
because it was bloody hot.
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