So far, we've been well looked after by our Lord and God! The Journey from Makambako to Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia took 35 hours, and thankfully we had a sleeping compartment with good washroom facilities. At just about every stop, we saw children asking for empty bottles, so threw ours out as we were done drinking our 14 litres of Kilolo water. We drank an average of one litre every five hours. The extremes of temperature left us gasping - from cold as African cold can be when I waited to buy the ticket in Makambako, to swelteringly hot in Mbeya station. Then mostly very warm until KMP where we spent the night.
On the bus this morning to Lusaka it got gradually hotter, and now I'm sitting in a room in a backpackers hostel, wishing there was a little more air movement. However we are safe and well, and fed on village chicken with vegetables and nsima (ugali in Tanzania), a stiff maize porridge which somehow seems wonderful when I'm hungry!
Tomorrow to Livingstone, and then across the border to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. We'll do this leg on the bus as well, then back to our train rides from there onwards.
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