During our Makasa farmers' field trip to Mwese and Yasakwa, I was invited to go on April 17th to 19th that PLARD and DOF will have survey meeting at Chilenge.
When I came back to PC house, I happened to know that PC vehicle is to pick up PCT - Matt from Chilenge on April 16th, so I called back to PLARD and DOF that I really don't have anything to offer at that meeting so will not be going with them on April 17th.
Besides I have not many days left to be with my farmers in Makasa area.
April 16th, Ba Manowa drove me along Luapula River northward, passed a dammed up hydro electricity generation plant.......
for the volume of water they have, there should be way more than just one tinny plant on the way up to Chilenge, or there are, just I had not seen them......Hope it is so.
After Mwese, we passed a long distance of road construction that is contacting by Chinese company.
Another long distance after the construction area, there were these ancient machinery at the road side, don't know what they were there for....
Got to Matt's site, a photo of him with his counterpart and the family.....turned out that Ba Sebastien knows my counterpart Ba Maxim and they both has two wives......
Matt's neighbor just passing by, the baby saw us -the strangers and kind of stopped, about to cry, the mom has to give a little kick from behind to get her going......sloooowly......
Matt was happy to go after four days in his own house......
Ba Manowa - the driver was nice to take us for a little detour to this little beach in the front of the Dept of Forestry office building, at the Lake Mweru.
Have to google the map for this one for I have not even heard yet.
Matt was kind enough to offer me this photo with my camera.
We swing through town market to this "another beach / water front"......where people wash truck, clothes, dishes, pots and pans....taking water home......right next to each other........in peace.......!?!?!
Further out, it seemed there was a fish port that fishermen had just got back??? or the local ferry port??? Very busy, it looked like.......
We had always been watched, now I can excuse myself of watching people.......
Don't know the one carries the baby was a mom or a sister......
Dancing??? Oh, no!
The bucket of water on her head just been lifted up, it might not been settled enough yet....
We were not been there long, but these people had done what they came there for.....packed up every thing, everyone and going home......
Drove back on the tarmac, not too far, Ba Manowa said to Matt and I, "I hope you don't mind that I make another detour to see the Mtumbatushi Water Fall." We both said, "No, not at all. We need to thank you for that instead."
So there we were.
My second time since September 2010.
The lower fall was right next to the parking lot.....don't know how many falls it goes through out whole Zambia......need to see it closely on map someday......with the luxury of google search.....
Water volume was heavy that I have to stand behind trees to keep my camera and me dry from the mist from the water fall.....
No one else was in the park besides the three of us. Same as the last time I was there.
Oh, not true. Three PCVs with a JICA volunteer left PC house the day before were camping there.
we followed the trail to another layer upper.......
and upper.......
and upper......
and upper........
and upper.......don't know how many layer higher we can go but we need to turn around to be back to Mansa before dark.
JICA volunteer - Kaido found a bunch of grass hoppers just being hutched...at least 30 or 40 of them in this not too big a the cactus plant.....their wings are still on the coming........
At the upper layer of the fall, the water is lesser in force and flowers every where....
another kind of grass hopper was enjoying its lunch......on this aloe folwer.
I am thankful that I have given this chance of seeing more of Luapula before I leave them.
Thanks to you all, Ba Manowa, Ba Siobhan, Ba Alfred.
Cheng 4/17/2013
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