After another hours drive past the source of the Zambia, in which we travelled only 17Km, we reached our camping destination for the evening, Nchila Wildlife Reserve and Hunting Lodge. Nchila is a working farm and dairy, wildlife reserve and hunting lodge that has been here for approximately 140 years and is still run by the same family. It was first started by someone who came over from Angola as a missionary and decided to stay. If you look on the map Nchila is located in the most western corner of Zambia, pretty much at the cross roads of Angola, Zambia and the DRC.
The camping grounds are amazing and are setup with open sky toilets and showers with hot and cold running water, a kitchen lappa and a huge eating and entertaining lappa, fire pits and lots of wood already provided. I LIKE camping Zambian style. The farm provides us with lamb chops and t-bone steaks, freshly "made" so to speak and fresh milk straight from the cow.
In the afternoon we went on a game drive with the owner, he has mostly antelope type animals on the farm, not any of the big 5 unfortunatley but exciting just the same. The animal I managed to get a photo of is a Sable, which are not very common in Zambia and are regarded as a royal animal, dont ask me why.
On the way home the next day we stopped in at a nice little lodge on the Zambezi for lunch, the Kwakuwahi Lodge. Kwakuwahi means beautiful in the local language.
The final photo is of William Rogers, one of 10 kids on the camping adventure.
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