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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.
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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.
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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.
Nile crocodiles aged 35years.It is
used for breeding purposes
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Wild Trails Tales at
Munda Wanga Environmental Park, Chilanga, Lusaka, Zambia, Central Africa
ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY
On
the 19th 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
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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.
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.
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