“Ihear that immigration at Kazungula is a nightmare!” a woman says to her husband at the table across from ours at Chobe River Camp in Namibia. I prick up my ears. “They had to dip all their shoes in disinfectant.”
Until now, I haven't given much thought to the quick trip our family has planned to Livingstone in Zambia tomorrow, aside from booking accommodation. The children's passports and birth certificates are in a folder, along with the registration papers for our vehicle. Surely that's all we need? We walk over to find out more.
The woman's name is Megan Zondagh and she's from Windhoek. She tells us how her friends struggled with the vehicle-related paperwork at the Kazungula border post. So much so that they only reached their accommodation at 9 pm. Megan sends us a link to a website with all the things you need to cross the Zambian border in your own vehicle, including police clearance, third-party insurance, two emergency triangles and reflective strips on every corner of your vehicle's bumpers.
We have none of these things, so we head to Google to figure out where to get it all…
IN OTHER WORDS
Stefan and Louisa Bothma, Bapsfontein
“We kept an eye on flysafair.co.za and bought return tickets
