One time we went to Mulungushi

The Balancing Rock out in the distance (sort of to the left in this photo)

Back in October, Heather and I took the bus up north through Lusaka (~5hours) on up to Kabwe (another 2 or 3 hours) to visit some of Heather’s friends. Her friends graciously invited us along on a mini camping holiday to their cabins at Mulungushi Dam. Nine of us piled into their Land Cruiser and bounced out to Mulungushi.

There was swimming and boating and hiking and fishing. Mostly, Heather and I just soaked in the beauty—the lake, the rocks, the sunsets, and the moon at night.

On Monday morning, Heather and I and a Kiwi couple went exploring. We went through a cave (yes, there was a bat in it. Ahhhhh and eeewe.), climbed over a gate to visit the water shed, and army-crawled under another gate to follow the path. The Kiwis and I hiked up on top of the balancing rock. Well, “hiked” is a stretch of the term in my case—I was pulled up the rock and pretty much tumbled off. Hmmm. Good thing I don’t have my heart set on professional rock climbing. The good news is that the horrific bruise I got on my knee faded within a few weeks! I had a blast on our morning trek.

me, under the balancing rock

on top of the balancing rock

Visiting Mulugushi was grand. It was so kind of Heather to let me tag along to visit her friends, and so gracious of her friends to welcome and include me :).

time to go...

a little toad came to visit the kitchen one day