East on the B8 towards Kongola. There we will decide whether to go straight to Katimo Mulilo or turn right and go along the border of Botswana to Kazungula to Livingstone. Heard some stories about the cost of crossing by ferry that were exorbitant.
The GPS says it all.
All tar, but what the heck, we are riding bike through the Caprivi.
At Kongola, we turn onto the road under construction, but after a while and many kilometers later, realise that it was a mistake. It is getting late, the detours are getting very sandy and slowing us down a lot. I also got stones thrown at me by some kids at a roadside village. We turn around and head back to the tar.
Can't remember where this was.
Murphy?
Not important, it was somewhere in the Caprivi.
We made a quick stop in Katima Mulilo. Then we were off to the border. The new Zambian border post is something the Zambian government can be very proud of. Efficient, friendly, well dressed staff in a very new and clean and impressive building. Nothing like the little shack (which we passed a little further down the road) that I encountered when I went Tiger fishing at the Zambezi Island Lodge a few years ago.
And, just for the record, I caught PLENTY of Tiger. Got the photos to prove it.
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Into Zambia, over the mighty Zambezi river. No ferry, just bridge. How things have changed.
It was a great tar road, then there was a slight hiccup............................
that turned into a whole fit of hiccups.
And it was getting late, we still had a long way to go..............................
A long way.................
