On Saturday of our little anniversary trip we went to the Lake Kariba Dam. It was amazing. It was a little weird getting there though, having to go through the immigration and there was this guy wanting to sell us Zimbabwe dollars. We drove down the this long, windy, barbed wire fence road to the dam at the bottom of the road. We saw a sign going back up the hill that said, "Welcome to Zambia." We weren't in Zambia anymore. We still weren't in Zimbabwe. We were in the no-man's zone called Kariba Dam. It was simply amazing. Hopefully the video below does it justice. For ya'll none metric people, it was 419 feet high and 2024 across. AMAZING. I felt like I was in a movie. We left there amazed at this place. It took three years and 84 people died building it, including 18 that are forever entombed in this dam. On the way back up the hill, as we made ourselves back through immigration, the same Zimbabwe guy came up and I did buy a 100,000,000,000 dollar bank note from him. I bought it for 7000 kwacha or about $1.50... Pray for Zimbabwe.
I just looked online at this dollar. Someone payed $80 buck on ebay. Hmm... :)
So here are a few videos...
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I found this blog through a random series of jumps--couldn't resist looking when I saw the word "Zambia." I grew up in Zambia and spent a lovely family vacation at Kariba Dam when I was a kid. Your post brought back fond memories!
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