The most wonderful time of the year! South Luangwa-A close call in the game park, twice! And further north of Malawi
Granny and Grampa came to visit again and we popped to the lake for the day before our trip to Zambia to take the car out of the Country. The water was perfectly clear and calm. Our local Santa! Lily reckoned his beard wasn't real because she could see the strings. Setting off on our 370km trip to the beautiful South Luangwa in Zambia. We left at 5am hoping to get there in good time. Unfortunately we got a guy called Patrick at the border and I think he was hoping for some financial motivation to speed things up because it took us 4 hours to pay for road tax! Everything else was smooth and him taking 4 hours to do something that usually takes 10 minutes was utterly ridiculous! A slight damper on our experience, but we eventually made it to our campsite 11 hours later! The problem with corruption in these places is that bribes become an expectation. The Malawian side was very efficient and there were QR codes to rate the service. I think Patrick appreciated that I wasn't rat