LARGEST MAMMAL MIGRATION IN THE WORLD.

LUSAKA  to KASANKA NP.    DAY 17  555km. 8hrs.

Stayed at Lukasa for three nights, the day I was due to leave it started bucketing down at 3am till mid morning. 

Sunday the weather was good so drove north to Kasanka NP, took eight hours, arriving at 4pm. 

    Typical truck stop.

While at the reception being told there was no available accommodation, I was fortunate enough to go with a guide that was taking a Chinaman in his bakkie to see the bats and allowed me to hop in. We raced to the hide at the forest and clambered up ,still in all my gear, except the helmet . Ten million fruit bats from Central Africa migrate here every year from October and depart in late December to eat the fruit. So you can actually hear them firing up their wings, sounds like a waterfall, very strange. Then at 17:51 they started to leave the trees en masse and then twenty minutes later it's all over. Was quit a sight and there is a video of it on my YouTube channel ,  Roy Cape to Cairo Kasanka Bats. 

Got back to the reception and had dinner and some libation. Had to drive 10km to where I could stay in a room they use for students with five gallons of shower water, was actually not bad. Slept like the clappers.

KASANKA to MUTINONDO WILDERNESS CAMP.   DAY 18   226km  7hrs

Visited Dr David Livingston's Memorial  where he died of malaria and dysentry.  The entire day was on dirt, narrow tracks that have never seen a grader, with some fesh fish to boot, which was manageable. Was slow going averaging 32 kmph and happily arriving at camp at a reasonable hour.

    Livingston's Memorial 

    The Bouma with my tent inside.

Not having anything to eat the entire day the curry was woofed down and washed down with few Mosi's. 

MUTINONDO  DAY  19

After breakfast went on a 9.5km hike through the forest and over one huge rock to enjoy a swim in a small river pool and then did chores and now waiting on 17 hundred hours !