Livingston

Home of the mighty Victoria Falls, Livingston is a major tourist place throughout Africa. The falls can be viewed from Zam or Zim, but even though the falls are better seen from the Zimbabwean side, we settled with the Zambian side. Visa cost are out of control in Zim and you have to buy a new one for Zam if you come back.
Anyway, the falls were beautiful anyway, even though there is not much water during December. We spent Christmas at the falls and went to a fantastic Indian restaurant in the evening.
The backpackers was OK, providing some good meals, cerveza, pool, ping pong and some other convenient stuff. Just to splash a bit we went to a 4-5 star hotel and drank a beer. The pool was bigger, the place nicer and the staff politer - but it missed character.

Livingston

The boat trip from Rio Dulce to Livingston is according to the Lonley Planet one of the highlights of central america. They didn’t write, that if it rains, that you are going to get soaked. Besides of that, I have to admit that it was really nice – we visited some “agua calientes” and saw some nice flowers and animals.
Livingston would be my kind a town. Extremly laid back with a strong Garifuna culture. Similar to Belize. In hostel ”Iguana” I drank some wine out of the TetraPak and watched two movies in a row. Afterwards I checked out the tiny city. After diminishing the hopes of all the local dealers, I spent the day with the 50 year old lady from Washington and 3 german girls. The one thing that I didn’t like about Livingston is, that you can’t swim in the ocean because it’s polluted and there is no beach. But that was exactly what I was looking for. So the next day I wanted to race to Utila, Honduras. Everybody said that it’s possible in one day. Well that just proofes that nobody has an idea what the hell they are talking about.