February 14, 2011

A'Zambezi

The A'Zambezi is the next place we went.
It is located about a 10 minute car ride from Victoria Falls on the Zimbabwe side.
We stayed here for five nights I think... can't remember, but had a hard time getting it straight while we were there...sooo yeah.
We loved it here. Jer and his family had come here on vacation when they were doing missions in Zambia. I think it would have been wrong for them not to have gone when they were sooo close.
There was a lot to do around here.

We were some what greeted by these guys. I thought they were ugly, but a bit cool....but I was wrong....they are the most delicious meat I have ever had. I am drooling thinking about it as we speak...I want some now.
The hotel, or resort I don't know which it would be called, is on the A'Zambezi River. Just a two minute walk from our room and this is what you could see...it was beautiful.

This is the restaurant....I can't remember the name of it...I read it once when we ate lunch there. That was the only time it wasn't a buffet. Buffets are not the same there as they are here. They have some side dishes heated and waiting for you to serve yourself, of course salad and fruit laid out too, but the meat is prepared to be cooked in front of you to your specifications. It was great.

Yup all outside. During suppers they had a drum type music group playing in front of a little bond fire in the middle of that big opening. SSOOO COOL. Us eating breakfast. Yup it was also a buffet. Omelet and a lot of fresh fruit and juice, oh and a lot of fresh baked pastries.

The pool and the coral around the pool. On the last day that we stayed here Jer was missing the kids soo we went swimming and noticed twin boys swimming, Jer decided to ask them to play with me. They didn't speak english, but their mom did soo she translated for them a bit and had a lot of fun playing with each other. Those boys really like Jer and his games. Soo fun. Loved swimming in this pool. View of the pool from our room.

View of the river from our room. Sooo beautiful there.

Restaurant again.

Hehehe. The cheezy Christmas display. There may or may not be at least one more like this ;) Jeremy didn't want me to take the picture but it was fun and awesome to me. hehe
Sorry I completely forgot to take an actual picture of our room. It was nice but a little uncomfortable....two twin beds shoved together.

3 comments:

quinnandlyla said...

seeing Christmas in other countries is always interesting...is there enough to write a post on it? What was unique to Zambia as far as how they celebrate Christmas?

quinnandlyla said...

was there any unique Christmas displays or anything traditional that you saw?

Mal and Ellie said...

You've done a great job telling about your Africa trip. Love the pictures and dialogue.