The lodge

the waterfalls

eventure falls

On Sunday the divers had their "dry day" (for me and Markus right now
every day is dry day...). As we got invited by the Danes of the
eventure camp to visit their waterfall we went over to Katoto again
and while the others went up on an exhausting hike to this waterfall I
stayed behind and slept in a hammock on the terrasse. They want to
rename the falls "eventure falls" after they bought it from the chief
(kind of the head of the tribe their, he owns all the land) for a red
Toyota. The falls were nice ( I was told). A a Danish tv crew was
joining them for the hike. They were visiting the project with a
famous Zambian-Danish singer that is giving money to the project.
Danish national television is broadcasting a show on here "roots".
Afterwards they had a volleyball match with the Danish camp.
Unfortunately the Danish won...

Mbala

On Friday Markus and me went to Mbala to get a x-ray as I have some
lung issues. We travelled with the common transport option here: A
Toyota Minibus (8 seats) with 20 passengers and lots of stuff on the
roof. Its not really comfy but really quick! The Hospital was
surprisingly ok. And really cheap even if we choose the high cost
treatment. The xray was ready in 5 min. We were done after 2 hours!
That is faster then in europe! Impressive...They still only have 5
doctors there. Its strange how we met lots of foreign missionaries,
researchers, volonteers teachers but not one doctor or nurse yet.

mysterious fish

Some fischermen from the village next by sold us this fish. We now
keep it in a concret basin. We think it is a goldmorph of
Lepidolamprologus lemeri but we are happy to get other suggestions. It
was caught at 10 m depth (according to the fishermen). Any idea?

Komische Mission

Gestern bekamen wir unerwarteten Besuch von 2 polnischen Missionaren
die gerade in Zambia stationiert sind und zur Zeit in Ihrem Urlaub das
Land erkunden. Innerhalb weniger Minuten schon kam das Gespräch auf
AIDS zu sprechen und nicht nur das sie recht Ahnungslos waren was die
Krankheit angeht, sie vertraten tatsächliche die Meinung dass Kondome
schlecht wären da Sie die Menschen hier zu mehr Unzucht anregen
würden! Das Verbreiten sie in Ihrer Diocese. Da die Katholische
Kirsche einen sehr grossen Einfluss in Sambia hat finde ich es ist
eine Schande so einen Stuss zu verbreiten. Somit haben diese
fahrlässigen Priester meiner Meinung nach viele Menschenleben auf dem
Gewissen.
Ich bin dann einfach mit dem Boot nach Mpulungu geflüchtet. Der
Kompressor muste repariert werden, das traf sich gut. Als Ich wieder
kam waren sie zum Glück wieder verschwunden. In Mpulungu trafen wir
noch 2 von den Dänen Pere und Estelle die noch etwas in der Stadt
erledigen müssen. Sie übernachten heute nocheinmal bei uns.
Es sieht hier aus als ob der Regen kommt. Seit 2 Tagen ist trübes
Wetter. Die Einheimischen halten aber daran fest : Regnen wird es erst
am 24. Oktober. Warum auch immer...

Bad Monkey!

We visited some danish guys on Sunday in Katoto, a village 40 min
from here. They are building a sustainable agriculture school tourism
project there(or something like that). Essentially its a lodge,
huge,with electricity and plombage. A very beautiful place they build
a year ago. Glenn and Julie are living there with their 2 small
children and 4 volonteers. At the end they want to get groups of 18
people there for 6 weeks : they start by doing some tourism and then
the next 3 weeks they work as a volonteer at the school they are
building. They plan to have 40 pupils at the school taugth by zambian
teachers and volonteers. They even plan to build an international
standard football field (90x40 m)! AND THIS IS IN THE MIDDLE OF
NOWHERE, ZAMBIA!
A very ambitious and impressive project. People were nice except for
the stupid monkey that sensed that I would not want it to climb on me
and then would not let go of me. Very annoying....it even squeezed
Markus nipple ! this was my fist monkey experience. Now I know I do
not like monkeys...
A German tourist joined us at the lodge on Saturday. He has been
travelling with his bike across Africa for 2 years and is now on his
way home. He will be leaving on Friday with the Liemba
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Liemba) a very old german ship crossing from
Mpulungu to Kigoma, Tanzania, once a week.
Only two of us are diving, me not included. I am bored and I hope I'll
get better soon so we can go on with the project.

That the link to the danish project: http://www.eventure.dk/