My Travel Adventures

On Saturday morning, we crossed the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia. Our hotel was only about half an hour from the crossing, so we decided to walk, which was not too difficult with my light luggage thanks to the decent road. Baboons welcomed visitors to the Zimbabwean customs office – the first wildlife encounter of many that day. They used the electricity pole to descend from the roof of the building to the ground, where they would strut and insouciantly collect trash like partly eaten corn cobs from passersby.

My flight from Nairobi to Victoria Falls was a bit chaotic. Since transiting in Addis Ababa was twice as cheap as flying directly, I decided to take up Ethiopian Airlines on its offer of a free room in an airport hotel and continue to Victoria Falls the following morning. Unhelpfully, the Ethiopian Airlines website does not have a proper explanation of how this arrangement works, so I started getting a little nervous when I got to my gate at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport without receiving any information on how to get my hotel voucher. I was doubly perplexed when I found out that my friend Wei, with whom I was travelling, had already received her voucher by email.