My Wild Trails part 2

lusechella — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:40:00 GMT

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Wild Trails Tales at Chinyungu Hot Springs in Chongwe District, Lusaka, Zambia, Central Africa

Chinyungu Hot Springs are found in Chongwe District on the eastern part of Lusaka Town about 5km from the Central Business District.The local people the Soli, call it Kalungula which literally means getting burnt. This is because the water is so hot that one can boil an egg or a cob of maize.The water from the hot spring has a strong pungent smell to show the presence sulphur content.

Kalungula Hot Springs were discovered in 1928 by Chief Bunda of the Liamina family from the Soli Village, Chamifwi.

people were restricted from going there because it was believed that they would mysteriously disappear. Other myths surrounding the hot springs are the presence of a mermaid.

An unnamed white man settled there and wanted to connect pipes (as can be seen in the photograph above) so that water would flow into his swimming pool. However this was not to be so because the pipes corroded at a very fast rate due to the high sulphur content in the water.

The hot springs have thermal wells, where water comes out from the belly of the earth after being super- heated by a hot rock called magma. The water is believed to have medicinal properties. It can cure skin diseases, arthritis and rheumatism. Chinyungu also acts as tourist attraction for both local and international tourists. Local witch-doctors from the surrounding villages come to collect some water which is used to make magic portions.

Currently, a local developer is constructing some chalets to provide accommodation to the tourists.

Chinyungu Hot Springs have an unexploited economic potential of geo-thermal power generation. Although scientists from a Local Electricity Company, Zesco have made efforts of taking some samples for analysis from there, no follow-ups have been made.

Wild Trails Tales at Kalimba Reptile Farm, Lusaka, Zambia, Central Africa

Another exciting wild trail tale at Kalimba Reptile Farm. I spent a whole day with my pupils at the farm. While there the tour guide took round showed us different species of snakes, crocodiles and tortoises.

Long snouted crocodile

Nile crocodiles aged 35years.It is used for breeding purposes

Wild Trails Tales at Munda Wanga Environmental Park, Chilanga, Lusaka, Zambia, Central Africa

ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY

On the 19^th of March, 2011, pupils who belong to a wildlife and environmental club, the Earth watch based at Rhodes Park School undertook an exciting tour to the Munda Wanga Environmental Park.

While there I discovered that a Zebra does not have a single dominant colour but two.

An interesting discovery, during the tour is that when a camel does not like you or is annoyed it will spit!

Suspicious Territorial Ostriches

Lonely mane less Lion

Spitting Camel

Caressing Zebras

They were so excited and almost breathless to see the animals. The fact that, most of them being born and bred in a city and the closest, anyone of them has ever been to a wild animal is…on television! Can you imagine that! Stranger than fiction if I might say, but it’s the absolute shocking true especially for an African child. This is not so sat that as Africans we leave with animals but the probability of seeing one is as certain as paying your taxes.

Below are some of the animals they were able to see at the park.

Greedy warthogs

Wild Trails Tales at Kariba North Bank Siavonga, Lusaka, Zambia, Central Africa 23 July, 2011.

UNEPLAINED PHENOMONON!

Stanger than fiction.But believe it on not!The crocodile shown below is believed to have found its way on the other side of the dam wall.How it found it way through the filters and passed through the penstocks and passed through the sharp blades of the propellers of the turbine.This is indeed an unexplained phenomenon.

Wild Trails in Namib Desert

lusechella — Thu, 9 Dec 2010 18:44:00 GMT

Wild Trails in Namib Desert

This trip was conducted in 2008 as an Educational Tour with Rhodes Park School pupils in August. We took a road trip, through The Caprive Strip. Along the way, the vegetation type gradually transformed from a type Savanna Grassland of scattered trees and tall grass into brown tuft grasses and thorny-semi arid shrubs of the Kalahari-Nambib Desert.

But first we had to go to Swakopowund, which is on the coast of Namibia and washed by the Indian Ocean. We arrived in the evening and checked in the Municipal Bungalows.

Before dinner at 7pm, we decided to go to the se coast and view the spectacular view of the breaking sea waves. Being from a landlocked-locked country, Zambia such a view as a rare sight. All I could say was AWESOME!

Wild Trails in Namib Desert

lusechella — Thu, 9 Dec 2010 18:44:00 GMT

Wild Trails in Namib Desert

But first we had to go to Swakopowund, which is on the coast of Namibia and washed by the Indian Ocean. We arrived in the evening and checked in the Municipal Bungalows.

Wild Trail Tales

My Wild Trails part 2

Wild Trails in Namib Desert

Wild Trails in Namib Desert