Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake. It is estimated to be the second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume, and the second deepest, after Lake Baikal inSiberia;[3] it is also the world's longest freshwater lake. The lake is divided among four countries – Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Tanzania and Zambia, with the DRC (45%) and Tanzania (41%) possessing the majority of the lake. The water flows into the Congo River system and ultimately into the Atlantic Ocean.--taken from Wikipedia.
After our Nutrition Workshop concluded, three of us-Barb, Cheng and myself--hitched up to Mpulungu so we could see this famous lake before I left Northern Province.
We checked into a cute little chalet run by a Zambian woman, Charity, who gives PCVs a budget price of K35000 per night per person ($6) . We then found a fisherman who would rent his boat out to us for the day. Since we were there during the full moon, he would not be able to fish anyway.
He charged us K500,000 ($90) for the whole boat for the whole day. And he brought along all the male members of the family, it seems, to be his crew.
We crossed over to where there were two sand beaches where we enjoyed the views and waded in the water and ate our packed lunch.
While the family looked on.
We had a great time, arriving at sunset.
The boat even dropped us off at a bar on the beach. Now there was a grand finale!!
Mary Ellen, thanks for sharing this info and the stunning photos - the one of the sunset framed against the posts could take a photo prize.
ReplyDeleteI am glad you enjoyed it almost as much as I did being there even for a short time. It is spectacular!
ReplyDeleteNice mom. I am sure that you took well advantage of being dropped at the bar where you would of continued to have many onlookers. It shouldn´t be too suprising to you to have 6 Zambian men or even the whole village staring as 3 Muzungu´s stroll into town. Love the pictures.
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