A day's bash to Livingstone today as the temperature climbed into the mid 30s.
We started the day with a trip to Ashish Patel's GM garage to give the car a once-over on a ramp and pick up a new rad cap. Really nice chap and couldn't do enough for us including showing us his own highly successful Impreza rally car. Lusaka itself seems to be a developing modern city with clean well-built buildings, plenty of business going on and polite and reasonably patient drivers (a real rarity in the Cities we have travelled through so far)
The 40km drive itself was uneventful through beautiful countryside down to the Zimbabwe border at Livingstone which sits on the magnificent Victoria Falls - a World Heritage Site. The Zambezi Sun Hotel is 5 minutes walk from the falls and is beautiful. The first shock was to see Zabras grazing in the Hotel grounds. There are also Impala and Giraffes. They are all wild and wander through. They even have crocs In the lake nearby and served croc stew as one of the dishes on offer for dinner. 
The falls themselves are simply stunning and at their most magnificent at this time of year.
Tomorrow we have a 1000km day into Namibia. Kick-off at 6.30 and unlikely to arrive before 8pm. Then we have 4 really hectic days of competition to Cape Town on the 29th. This is going to be a real test to the finish with 13 World Cup competitive sections left and many long ones still to come to decide the result.
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