I've spent the last couple of days in Lusaka, Zambia's capital city. Its here where my Mum & Dad are spending a lot of there time... Christian Vision the charity which they work for have a farm here which is HUGE... It takes about 40 mins just to drive from one end to the other! On the farm there is a school, bible college and radio station. There's quite a few local families who live and work on the farm. There's loads of kids everywhere and as you walk they follow you around hiding behind trees and bushes!
The bible college is for training up church planters who are then sent off into rural Zambia to make disciples. The radio station broadcasts on FM into Lusaka and on short-wave to the rest of the country. The content is very evangelistic and aimed at sharing the gospel with as many people as possible... Christian Visions vision is to touch a billion people across the world with the gospel. Its awesome to see this in action first hand especially watching my Mum & Dad in their element!
On Tuesday morning we leave early to travel out to Livingston to spend 3 days at Victoria Falls. In true Zambian style we're traveling by bus (no aircon and NO TOILET!)... a six hour journey, the bus will be packed with locals so its going to be quite an experience. The country is very poor so there's not many cars (the roads have big potholes in so only 4x4 can travel around anyway!) This means most local people travel by bus or walk... you'll also often see many a Zambian packed into the back of a battered pick-up truck. The people are very friendly and are always smiling; they even wave as you pass by... just like London then?!Below is a photo of the small house my Mum & Dad live in when in Zambia... lots of scorpions and spiders running around!
2 comments:
Wimp! Travelling without air con or toilets for 6 hours is nothing.
In Tanzania I lived 13 hours by bus from Dar, so having a meeting at head office was great fun.
Also, once I had to travel to a place called Bukoba on Lake Victoria. That meant travelling up to Dar (13 hours), from Dar to Mwanza via Kenya (30 hours non stop), and then across Lake Victoria by boat (10 hours). Total travelling time: 53 hours. It took about 3 and a half days to get there. I flew back!
I also had an office in Tabora which is directly north of Mbeya. To get to Tabora I had to go to Dar (13 hours) and then take a train to Tabora (35 houts). Total travelling time: 48 hours. I usually flew there from Dar.
Once in the dry season I decided to take the back route straight down to Mbeya. No roads, just sand and dust track. That took just 30 hours. But at about midnight we stopped at a 'restaurant' for something to eat and drink. The bus conductors got very drunk very quickly drinking beer mixed with gin. One of them started chatting up a prostitute, but she turned him down, so he started beating the crap out of her. No one stepped in, and as an ex pat it wasnt my place to step in, so I left the restaurant assuming the Tanzanians would stop him. They didnt and she ran out of the restaurant being chased by him.
He then threw her against the bus and she fell to the ground. At which time he started kicking her and stamping on her head. I couldnt watch that and I got so angry I floored him. I was fuming with rage.
The scary thing was though that we had another 8 or so hours to go. The driver got on the bus and said 'white man I am going to beat you', his mate told him to sit down because I would 'kill him'! But he was sitting at the front of the bus so I couldnt get off for a bush stop! My bladder was massive by the time he fell asleep and I could sneak by!!!
I hope the adventures are going well?
Thanks alot for the great post
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