Livingstone, Zambia
Touch Adventure
Touch Adventure, a specialist in white water rafting and cultural tours, is part of a movement to diversify traditional tourism offerings in Africa. Founder Ndaba Ndlovu, a Zimbabwean adventure seeker who worked as a river rafting guide, says when he looked at starting his business, he realized the political climate in his country was deteriorating and he began looking on the other side of the river. Ndlovu set up his company's base and operates all tours in Zambia, although he maintains a sales office in Zimbabwe. Zambia's aggressive marketing campaign and diversified offerings have brought tourists for longer stays and repeat visits.
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Investing In Transportation: High Risks, Big Returns, A Noticeable Absence
By Rosalind McClymont
When I was a teacher in Uganda in the early 1970s, I would travel the 200-mile distance from Kampala, the capital, to Fort Portal near the Congolese border by bus, and then take a taxi for another 10 miles or so to the school. The most direct route from Kampala to Fort Portal was via the town of Mubende, so I would take the Mubende bus early in the morning and hope to arrive in Fort Portal about six hours later. Invariably, however, the overcrowded bus would break down and we would idle — men, women, children, live fowl, a goat or two, and produce — for hours beside the potholed, dusty red road until another bus came along, or the driver or a mechanic from the nearest village got the bus going again. Once in a while we would have to push the bus to give it a jump start. I soon got wise and started taking the Mbarara bus, which took a much longer, but blessedly paved, route.
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