Bwana_Brown Says: The first stop on our Luanshya-Lake Tanganyika trip was at Kundalila Falls. This falls is actually in Central Province but is quite close to the border with...
Bwana_Brown Says: Located near Kasama, the Chilubula Mission has a very interesting story behind it. Joseph Dupont, a French Catholic 'White Father' was posted to the Lake...
Bwana_Brown Says: On this particular trip to Northern Province, I went along with another Canadian volunteer who had arrived in Luanshya, Zambia one year after I did. He was a...
Bwana_Brown Says: Zambia is a fairly large country, although it does not look to be so on a map of Africa! At 752,000 square km in size, it is slightly bigger than the state of...
Bwana_Brown Says: The Kalambo River forms the boundary between Zambia (right) and Tanzania in this area where the high plateau drops sharply down into the Great Rift Valley.Along...
Bwana_Brown Says: Approaching the waterfall along a trail at the top of the gorge (which was fun in itself!), you can see the huge plume of spray rising from the forest below as...
Bwana_Brown Says: Leaving the viewing platform, we strolled (or should I say 'edged our way') over to the actual precipice where the Kalambo River begins it's long decent to the...
Africa's 2nd Highest Waterfall
Bwana_Brown Says: A short drive from Mbala brought us to Kalambo Falls, the most impressive sight by far that I saw on this whole trip! At 220-m (700 feet), this 2nd highest...
Bwana_Brown Says: After leaving Kasama, we finally decended from the high ground of Northern Province into the Great Rift Valley and reached the shores of 420-mile long Lake...
Bwana_Brown Says: Near the shore of Lake Tanganyika, we came across these impressive old ruins. It turns out that they are the remnants of a church built by the London Missionary...
Swim the Lwombe River - Carefully!
Bwana_Brown Says: While we were visiting the Chiluluba Mission, we decided to cool off with a refreshing dip in the Lwombe River. Here, I am joined by a volunteer from Nova...
Bwana_Brown Says: This amazing Catholic church was built in 1902, during the time of the energetic Father Joseph Dupont. The Bemba people were so enamoured of his activities that...
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Other than the time I hitch-hiked through Northern Province on my way to Tanzania and Kenya, I only had a single road trip to this part of Zambia. But what a great trip it was as I set off from the......
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