Nchila Camping Adventure Part 2 - The source of the Zambezi

A very early morning start for the camping adventure with the Patterson, Rogers, Caro & Dave and Neil and Kelly families, plus myself of course meeting at 5am to begin the convoy to the source of the Zambezi River.

After 5 hours of driving on the challenging Zambian roads (see previous post), some interesting navigating through bush tracks and a little side adventure into the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) which was such a buzz I had to take a photo with the boarder crossing sign, we finally arrive at the source of the Zambezi.

Before beginning the trek to the source we had lunch at a "Lappa" in the forrest surrounding the national monument. A lappa is an outdoor structure with a thatched roof and no walls found throughout Zambia (like a Gazebo is the best way to describe it). It is generally nice and cool under the thatched roof so it is a nice place to be on a hot day. Thankfully the rest of the ladies on our little adventure were well organised and brought lots of food. Considering we had 10 kids on our little adventure, it was a good thing we had lots of food. A couple of photos are included of fellow adventurers, the Pattersons and Neil and Kelly with Lorna our youngest adventurer and Calem.

After lunch we started out on the long and arduous trek to the source of the mighty Zambezi river - well actually not that long and arduous at a nice board walk through the forrest to the source. Even with this though I was getting LaLa like towards the end, but dont stress family I had the pen with me and lots of willing people eager to jab me with it, there were lots of comments about Pulp Fiction which was getting me worried.

We eventually arrived at the source (only took about 30 minutes in the end) and would you believe it is just a little pool of water oozing out of the bottom of a tree, hard to imagine that is the source of the Zambezi but they tell me it is true. It will be interesting to see the other end of the Zambezi in a few weeks when i head to Livingstone and go white water rafting on the same river!!