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Shaped like a great butterfly spreading its wings in the heart of Africa, Zambia is an endlessly absorbing and exciting land. It is a place that appeals to travellers of an independent spirit who value personal discovery above prescribed experience. It offers opportunities for real exploration in an age of increasing dissatisfaction with the passive predictability of conventional holiday making venture into the country side and you will be immersed in an age old rhythm of life
A landscape littered with reminders of the past, whether in the form of rock paintings, ancient burial monuments, or villages which have been settlements since the iron age, this is the old eternal Africa where life goes on in the most leisurely traditional way. This is the Zambia of small thatched villages glowing by the light of cooking fires, of women in sarong-like garments called chitenges pounding maize with pestle and mortar, of men in dug out canoes fishing with nets, of children herding cattle, of colourful and pituresque traditional ceremonies and of equisite baskets and beautiful pottery. ... 
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