Dried breadroll for breakfast with a cuppa - not the most appetising breakfast. We had a quick chat with Tom and managed to get rid of all our 5 litre plastic water bottles. He also explained the route to avoid much of the main Lusaka - Livingstone road. Left at 9 am with a quick detour back into Siavonga for more water and beer. The road that Tom had described was mostly tarred and we passed through village after village. We still had the feeling that Zambian villages have more overt poverty than Zimbabwean ones - children with no clothes, no water close by and certainly no cars! Everyone was really friendly though and waved to us as we went by. We did stop at one point to buy some baskets and the entire family descended on us begging us to buy things or give them food. We also stopped for lunch and a cuppa by the side of the road - not the best view. The last part of the road albeit tarred had massive potholes so we were glad to eventually get to the main road.
The Moorings campsite was actually 20 km in the opposite direction to Livingstone at the junction we emerged which was slightly aggravating. It also looked as though it was shut when we first arrived but eventually a lady did appear and we were able to check in, get a beer and buy a braai pack. The first job was to fill the car with the final jerry can of diesel (we should have filled both yesterday but the set up was actually better today so it was probably a better decision in the end). We cooked dinner of chicken curry with tinned mixed veg - it was odd but edible. The campsite cat seemed to like it anyway. Another group arrived as we were cooking and yet again they had previously used Safari Drive and in fact had bought their Landrover from them - another weird coincidence.
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