Did David and Matthew make it from Cape Town to Zanzibar by train? Find out. Here's part two of this unusual tale:
There was no electricity in the pub that night as I was peeling the sticker off the bottle of Mosi Lager in Livingstone. We were drinking with a few American and Canadian Peace Corps volunteers, not sure what their year in Africa entails.The following day, my friend Matthew and I would head to the train station and try to buy a ticket to Lusaka. Seems simple, right?
Smooth sailing to Lusaka, a pit stop for two nights until we caught another bus to Kapiri Mposhi to catch the Tazara rail. We made sure to secure our tickets by visiting what can only be described as a bureaucratic building in central Lusaka.There isn’t much in Kapri Mposhi. From memory, all I can remember is a pizza place and a Shoprite. We made our way to the Chinese-built railway station, a big hall with two opposing glass walls making up the front and the back.
We were prepared with cans of baked beans, instant noodles, eggs and Mosi Lager, but it wasn’t meant to be. Time was impossible to measure from then on. We arrived at Tanzania’s border, and the sun was already burning hot and bright.
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