Where in the World are the Schwarz’s Anyway.

This was also in our last newsletter written by Steve.

Zambia is smack in the middle of Southern Africa.  Steve had it nicely outlined and I hoped to copy and past and it didn't work.  If you start at the bottom tip of Africa: that country is South Africa.  Count up one country in the middle: that is Botswana.  Now this map is small and it looks like the next country straight north and right in the middle is Zambia.  I looked at a cloth map we have and Botswana doesn’t touch Zambia, but on the globe a little point does touch Zambia.

ZAMBIA                                       Mbala is up here.

If you can blow this up.  Mbala is listed on this map.  It is in the northern and eastern corner on the Tanzanian boarder.

So how do you get there?  Well, the first thing you do is book a
flight through your travel agent of choice with the destination of Lusaka, Zambia.  The flights most likely take you through South Africa or Europe.  Along the way you will move ahead in time by 6
or 7 hours from the Eastern time zone of America depending the
status of daylight savings time.  Two calendar days later you land
in Lusaka with some jet lag and realize you are still 650 miles
from Mbala!  Buckle up, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.  Actually, the roads to Mbala have improved considerably in the last 18
months.  If you travel hard, the road trip will only take about 12 hours.  Head out of Lusaka on the Great North Road through Kabwe, Kapiri Mposhi, Serenje, and Mpika.  At Mpika take Road
M1 to Kasama (the Northern Province capital) and then on to Mbala. Along the way you won’t see much wildlife as most of the game parks are in western and southern Zambia.  However, the northern landscape can be quite breathtaking especially in the rainy season. Now that you know how to get to us, we are expecting some visits! See you soon!