Lazying around in Siavonga
on Rob Wootton (Zambia), 21/Aug/2011 21:03, 34 days ago
After a busy week it felt good to escape Maz and do very little over the weekend. We barely moved from a friend’s house in Siavonga, enjoying the warm weather and her garden that has a lovely view looking out over Lake Kariba. There was plenty of cooking, eating, drinking, reading, watching movies and playing silly but amusing board games; all very relaxing. On the way home we became tourists briefly byvisiting an impressive Baobab tree. It is called the Ngombe Illede which translates from Tonga as 'the cow that is lying down'. Despite falling down the tree continued to grow, hence its name, though with all its branches it looked more like a huge stag to me. The tree has a long history of acting as a trading centre for items like beads, clay pots, copper, ivory and salt, as well as supposedly slaves.