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The Road to Lusaka

We arrived at the chaotic bus station in Livingstone to board our coach bus to Lusaka a half hour before departure as requested. After all the nightmare stories we heard about transportation in the third world, our trip to Lusaka went off like clockwork. The bus left only 15 minutes late. We made Lusaka a mere 7 hours later as promised. On the way we were treated to the countryside of Zambia out our window.

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We made it.

We skirted through the South African Airlines strike and landed in Zimbabwe on time. The moved through immigration and customs at an acceptable pace and found our name on a sign. THANK YOU!

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