Here came the grandma, age 81, lives along, doing farm works of her own, happy and beautiful in her own way, I love her and she me...We didn't have language to communicate in between, but we both felt each other in hearts and happy with that....

We met her in between their homes....aunt and her daughter and me.....than dinner was ready all were happy for the chicken, rape (one green vege), nshima (none flavored cornmeal porlenda) and aunt steamed more bumpkin and corn on the cob....all were so delicious.......we ate them all under tons of stars.......

After dinner the aunt and her children walked me to a guest house that run by the St. Mark's Church.......no hot water, no tea......no problem i was to leave on 6am's bus anyway.....The trip back to Mansa by myself was a 24 hours' journey.....Mupanza to Choma, Choma to Lusaka, Lusaka to Mansa....long, but smooth on connection.....at Mansa it was little over 5am and I took taxi to come back to PC House....it was less than 2 KM distance....but at one third way the taxi broken down and no any cars in sight for 10 15 minutes so I walked the rest of way back.....6am I was in house.....made it a 24 hours trip. Showered and went back out to my village......

After all Ba Hamangaba kept text to me where he was during my trip out and he took the new mom and baby back to Mansa day before I came back for he has scheduled to work on Tuesday. I will see them in Mabumba later. Cheng 4/29/2011

waiting for grandma

while wating for grandma to come to aunt's house, the aunt took me to see all around.....dinner was getting closer to be ready.... trees that Ba Lloyd is introducing to Luapula province that the tree gives nitrogen back to earth and it is good for all crops.....

A male dog could not get off from his little daughter dog that it was been picked up from its mom not many days ago.....puppy is still missing mom's milk and is taking anything for subtitute........a little goat said, "it's not dark yet and I am not sleepy." while all others went into the hut......people here have cattles and cattles are workers, milk providers, and meat providers at the end......Cheng 4/29/2011

visiting aut's home......

The Aunt sent a boy to have grandma to come over so I gave her some money to make a dinner for all.

While waiting for grandma to come and chicken dinner be cooked, the aunt took me to see Ba Lloyd's play grounds and one cousin has a month old baby......where they get water from.....ants was protesting something, not moving on the center of trail and accrosse....big and small.......fighting for territories???......Cheng 4/29/2011

visiting Mupanza

Visiting Ba Lloyd's grandmother's home in Mupanza, the bus dropped me off one KM too soon so I walked to the meeting place that Ba Lloyd's aunt was to take me from there......

While waiting for the aunt to come there came a huge water truck and people gathered with all sorts of containers.....I took pictures and asked to people how often the water truck to come and how much they have to pay....they looked at me funny....and laughing out laud.....one told me that it was a beer truck.....whao.....how big the town could be and with this kind of beer delivery, how many clear mind could have left in town to work and work right????

Not too short the distance to walk on the field trail to the anut's house. There I was introduced to the small house that Ba Lloyd built when he was going to school from there at grade 7 to 9....so how old could he have been than? The house is still in good shape.

One proud mama goat with 3 day old baby, one friendly duck was caring a little goat none stop until it was dark and the goat went into their hut.......Cheng 4/29/2011

visiting Kalomo

Parted with Barbara on the bus back up north, I got off at Kalomo that Mrs. Lloyd was waiting for me with one of the cousins. Her father was off to Lusaka and the mother was so young that I thought was her sister. She has 5 other sisters and one brother. Three of the sisters are staying in Mabumba where the Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd supporting them to go to school. People here are very much family oriented, they support everyone in the family even the extented families.

It was further away from towns and I was in the bus might be as old as I am that it starts by poople pusing it to have a jump start......cattles on a small truck bed and all lay down nicely....how they made cattles lay down??? I saw one well that I wished my neighbors will fix the one close to my post house the same as this one that will be very nice.......Cheng 4/29/2011

The jet boat took us up the river and was told there was another river from Zambabwe met togather and we went a little further into Zambabwe side of water saw the fall mist fly up at the end of the water one can see...wonder how many early advanturers been fall in to the fall for water was so powerful at that part of surface.....than we truned back to Zambia side....

Besides the jet boat gave no limit on drinks, they provided a little finger food break on a beach while the sun was sitting down.....from there we turn to the fall at Zambia side, I can see the steam of the mist from the fall that was so high in the sky......don't know how close we were to the drop of the fall only saw the water gets more rappid than we turned to unloading point at Royal at Livingstone hotel. It is another one of those hotels charges 400 to 900 USD a night. While we were waiting for taxi to take us back to town and there were more Chinese faces came in by the mid-size bus loads.....

The sun sit was so red before it gotten real dark......Cheng 4/29/2011

River Safari - it was.

While booking the baot ride we were told as "sun sit course" and it was actually a river safari.....it was great that we were not on the big boats for they were never be able to come that close to the banks, plus with that many people on board, one will never able to go the the edge of the baot to take any good pictures......so when I come again I will be on the jet baot again......

Besides busying on the drinks - excepted me, we were really busying watch the banks for all creaters.....there was aligater that was small and in the thin grasses, big birds on the tree branch that were not show up good in picture, cranes flow over our heads, microlights and halicapters came in and out of the baording point they shared the same spot for all activities, it seemed, but we did have good "long" time with two groups of hapos.....I knew they are big but never thought of they could be that big.....one male kept on watching us with its head up, the others only came up once a while....one time the bull turned side way with its back off water for 2-3 inches that surface was already as big as our aluminum boat, not talking about if his bally could be another that much larger.....one said, "if the bull would charge on to us???" the operator said, "no worry, the boat is faster than it can swim." Okay.....but just let's move on.....

The small birds were another good site to watch.....it has all colors of a Zambian flag......they move very fast but not going to far.....the more the trip went on the more I was happy that I was on the front seat of the jet boat.....Cheng 4/29/2011

This trip was not planned much time ahead so when we were there and wanting to do the elephant ride - Barbara, microlight flight - me, both were fully booked for the weekend, same as halicapter and all other activities as we went through the list of what people do there.....only stand by for the small jet boat - the aluminum power boat, we took it and waited for the confirmation before we went into the fall's trails that early morning.....

We were back at the boarding point at the Sun of Livingstone before 4pm. While we waited we collected the bourcher of the hotel and found the room rate was between 400 to 900 USD......surprisingly to hear and see many Chinese speaking and faces that they were the residences there......those big hotels and all the big boats were all fully occupaid for the weekend!!!

Barbara was kind of disappointed that we can't get on the either one of the two "African Queen" that she read a book written about it.....our boat was the small one at the most front.....that took only 8 passengers.....with the price the same as those big boats but there is no limit of wine, beer and soft drink, if you want to....wonder other boats were the same......Cheng 4/29/2011

The steep train only about 700 meters down to the boiling point that the river drop from the fall and turn to Zambabwe it made a huge wheel pool circling at a corner some water seemed to kept on circling there and never moved out with the river run.......

On the bridge there were people doing the bungee jumping - some almost touched the water below and bounced back almost touched the bridge and some just drop half way and not bouncing much before the escorter swing down to collect them back up...wonder if the body weight made that differences....it was fun to watch from down below but I do not think I will like to try it.

Cheng 4/29/2011

Monkeys

When we came out of the upper trial and turned to the lower trail to the bottom of the fall - The Boiling Point, at the beginning of the trail there were 10-20 monkeys, large and small, they were so cute - curious to the passingbyers and the little ones making their faces....wonder where they learn it from.....Cheng 4/29/2011