Lusaka

After an eight hour bus journey I arrived in Lusaka, the capitol of Zambia. There is Cairo street where all the high rises are and the businesses. West of the center the townships start. East are the "smart" white neighbor hoods and two shopping malls. White people are almost never walking. They use their Toyota Hillux to get from their mansion to the shopping mall and back. Most of them are South African, but there are also British and other random settlers around. I had to wait for my brother and his girlfriend for 10 days. So I updated my blog, bought some necessary gear and spent most of the time in the hostel. It had a pool and a bar which suited me very well. After playing chess, reading books, cooking and sleeping in the tent for 10 days Christian and Carla finally arrived. I never saw Carla before since I have left Switzerland before she met Christian. So we got to know us in Lusaka, which is not the best setting. I took them for a walk around with a visit at the National History Museum and told them what I knew about street wisdom in Africa.
Eventually I was happy to leave Lusaka, because it is a rather messy place with little to see.