Eureka Camp Park in Lusaka, Zambia

As soon as we arrived in Lusaka, we had to wait in line at immigration to purchase a visa at a cost of 50 USD.  A driver was waiting for us holding a sign with both of our names to transport us to the Eureka Camp Park.  As soon as we drove up to the camp, you could see wildlife just roaming around freely. While we were there we saw Zebras, Monkeys, Impalas’ and a few others that I didn’t know the names of. The first night we slept in a two bed chalet, which is basically a little hut. We slept inside a mosquito net, which was a bit scary when I woke up in the middle of the night and didn’t remember where I was. Ha Ha!  The camp was pretty nice, they had a small bar with a pool table and a TV that got a few British stations.   In the afternoon of the following day our truck arrived and we got to meet the rest of the people on our tour, who had already been traveling for over a month with our tour group “Absolute Africa”.  The tour is typically 11 weeks long and starts in Kenya, but we were not able to join till the latter part. Our tour leaders are Tito and David who are African and the rest of the people on the trip are from either Australia or New Zeeland. There are 11 of us on the tour including Daniel and myself. Everyone is in their early twenties to early thirties, so we fit right in.  This sort of tour isn’t exactly what you would call a vacation, as we have to do all the cooking, cleaning and other chores associated with camping and traveling. It’s all good though, Daniel and I are up for the adventure. The first night with the group we learned how to pitch our tents and got brought up to speed with the usual routine of cooking, sweeping up the bus, and of course doing the dishes. After we had eaten dinner and the chores were done we went to the bar and had some of the local beers. I took a particular liking to a Zambian lager beer called “Mosi”.  Everyone stayed at the bar till about 9:00PM and then decided to go to sleep, because Tito told us we would be driving a very long distance the next day.   Daniel and I were still not adjusted to the 8 hour time difference and were wide awake for most of the night. The next morning we had breakfast, packed up the camp and prepared for our first long drive to Lake Kariba.