Muli shani. Muli boti. (Hello in Chibemba and Chitonga respectively.) During my last 10 days in Zambia I had the opportunity to travel to the Northern Province, see Lake Tanganyika in the Great Rift Valley, visit a friend volunteering in a village, and travel to the Southern Province to visit a family in a village that I know through an NGO. The experiences were invaluable and were great lessons to me in the graciousness and kindness that strangers will bestow on others. Many of these pictures below were taken by the children in the villages I visited.
Twalumba Ian. Natotela Elisha and Lisa. Twalumba kapati Kenneth. For giving me the opportunity to see
Ian learning how to use the camera.
This is Ian and the chicken his family gave me as a gift. It was a great honor for me to receive it.
Village fishermen on Lake Tanganyika.
Kalombo Falls near Lake Tanganyika in the north of Zambia, in the Great Rift Valley. The 2nd largest falls in Africa. It was a 2 hour walk uphill, steep, to arrive. The river that feeds the falls is the one that separates Zambia and Tanzania.
Two friends who I joined on a visit in the Southern Province.
Kenneth, thank for the laughs and great lessons I learned from you.
One of the rural villages I visited. Here they speak Chitonga.
The women were preparing a chicken and nshima for a meal. Nshima is a delicious Zambian food that is eaten with all meals.
