{"id":2726,"date":"2022-07-24T08:37:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T07:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:19:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:19:52","slug":"hello-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/hello-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"hello Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">Not saying we where dissapointed with Tanzania&#8230; Well the stupid corrupt police, the silly speed limits 25mph or 45mph everwhere and its a big country or pay speeding fines, well actually pay speeding fines even if you aren&#8217;t speeding &#x1f612;&#x1f612; and I have dashcam footage to prove it.<br \/>\nAnd the terrain that isn&#8217;t a national park is boring, and the national parks are a giant  goverment money hoover to empty your wallet, top ones are \u00a3600 a day to visit and then the most things you will see are the Toyota tourist buses jamming up the tracks.<br \/>\nWell we drove 3 days from Dar el Salaam to Zambia. Zambia is much poorer than Tanzania but feels so much more welcoming.<br \/>\nWe took 3 hours at the border in usual African chaos and drive west to a lovely campsite called floeer and fern On a 1800 hectacre farm run by a F1 fanatic called Jackie, what a great place. We did a visit to Kalambo falls and a Zambian museum about the areas involvement in tbe first world war, I didn&#8217;t even know it Hagbourne here but the germans tried to take Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) from our empire.<\/p>\n<div class=\"postie-attachments\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2727\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220723_094417-01-135x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Garden path and signpost in Zambia\" width=\"135px\" height=\"300px\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220723_094417-01-135x300.jpeg 135w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220723_094417-01-461x1024.jpeg 461w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220723_094417-01-768x1705.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220723_094417-01-692x1536.jpeg 692w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220723_094417-01-922x2048.jpeg 922w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220723_094417-01-scaled.jpeg 1153w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2728\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220723_094428-01-300x135.jpeg\" alt=\"Open campsite lawn with trees in Zambia\" width=\"300px\" height=\"135px\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220723_094428-01-300x135.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220723_094428-01-1024x461.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220723_094428-01-768x346.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220723_094428-01-1536x692.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220723_094428-01-2048x922.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2729\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220723_125708-01-300x135.jpeg\" alt=\"Person standing beside Victoria Falls rapids\" width=\"300px\" height=\"135px\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220723_125708-01-300x135.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220723_125708-01-1024x461.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220723_125708-01-768x346.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220723_125708-01-1536x692.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220723_125708-01-2048x922.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2730\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DSC09659-01-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"Kalambo Falls viewpoint sign above the waterfall gorge\" width=\"300px\" height=\"169px\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DSC09659-01-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DSC09659-01-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DSC09659-01-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DSC09659-01-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DSC09659-01-800x450.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DSC09659-01.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- seo-africa-trip-nav:start --><\/p>\n<section class=\"seo-africa-trip-nav\" aria-label=\"East and Southern Africa trip navigation\">\n<h2>Kenya to South Africa trip: what to read next<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Previous stop: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/long-drives-quick-cooking\/\">long drives : quick cooking<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Next stop: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/campfires-in-africa\/\">campfires in Africa<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Trip section: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/onwards-to-tanzania\/\">Tanzania<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Trip section: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/the-road-to-namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<p><!-- seo-africa-trip-nav:end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not saying we where dissapointed with Tanzania&#8230; Well the stupid corrupt police, the silly speed limits 25mph or 45mph everwhere and its a big country or pay speeding fines, well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2726"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4582,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions\/4582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2726"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=2726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}