{"id":275,"date":"2010-12-29T09:44:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T09:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2014-03-08T18:37:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T18:37:01","slug":"xmas-eve-lake-kariba-day-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/2010\/12\/xmas-eve-lake-kariba-day-41\/","title":{"rendered":"Xmas Eve, Lake Kariba, Day 41"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Kariba-View.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-276\" title=\"Kariba View\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Kariba-View-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Kariba-View-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Kariba-View-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Kariba-View.jpg 1379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The previous day was spent in preparation for our time on Lake Kariba.\u00a0\u00a0 We spent hours shopping for food for Xmas, \u00a0the Houseboat trip\u00a0and Xmas gifts for secret Santa.\u00a0 We left Lusaka on Xmas eve to make a border crossing into Zimbabwe and headed straight to Lake Kariba bay and jump on the Houseboat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Kariba-Blue.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-277\" title=\"Kariba Blue\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Kariba-Blue-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Kariba-Blue-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Kariba-Blue-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Kariba-Blue.jpg 1379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The border post at Kariba between Zambia and Zimbabwe is unique in that its border is the dam wall which created the lake.\u00a0 It was constructed in the 50\u2019s when Zambia and Zimbabwe were still part Northern and Southern Rhodesia.\u00a0 It is fed by the mighty Zambezi River (which we will encounter in the near future when we get to Victoria Falls). This border is an impressive sight.<\/p>\n<p>Our first hours on the Houseboats are spent either fishing off the houseboat, a game cruise to see the surrounding wildlife, or just taking in the sunset with a cool drink in hand. It\u2019s all relaxation and chilling out as we wait for our cooks to bring out our scrumptious dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Day 40 was Margo&#8217;s turn for the chain of shame<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Tip of the Day:<\/em> <\/strong>It is hard to buy a Xmas gift worth just 5USD<strong> <\/strong>so take your time.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The previous day was spent in preparation for our time on Lake Kariba.\u00a0\u00a0 We spent hours shopping for food for Xmas, \u00a0the Houseboat trip\u00a0and Xmas gifts for secret Santa.\u00a0 We left Lusaka on Xmas eve to make a border crossing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/2010\/12\/xmas-eve-lake-kariba-day-41\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,19,508,507,509,469,472,471],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14th-nov-2010-absolute-safari-on-shaggy-denis","tag-absolute-africa","tag-african-holiday","tag-houseboat","tag-lake-kariba","tag-this-border-is-an-impressive-sight","tag-zambezi-river","tag-zambia","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}