June 30, 2010

Zambian Orient express

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The dream of wild life safari from the window of a luxurious train passing through African bushes and red earth savannas came true! In Kapiri Mposhi we boarded the first class compartments, men and women separately. Soon it turned out that our wagon is full of other ‘mzungu’ (white men), backpackers from different parts of the world who just like us are traversing the black continent. My travel companions were mainly Scandinavian, a group of 3 Danish journalists, one Finnish web-designer and a Dutch anthropologist – I enjoyed a splendid company in our ‘girls’ compartment during the next 2 days.

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