Comments on: The Kazungula Ferry: A Bridge Too Far?

By: Mark Buckshon

Mark Buckshon — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 01:02:54 +0000

Ahh, I used that “ferry” to cross into then-Rhodesia via Botswana in 1977 after an eight-months in Black Africa on a truck ‘expedition’ from London to Nairobi, then on my own via public transportation heading south. It was the only place you could legally cross overland between Black and White Africa. Thankfully (I presume) the crossing was before Ian Smith’s airforce bombed it. (After a month in Rhodesia, I returned to Canada before revisiting the country as an expatriate journalist from 1978-80, living through the end of the Rhodesia/Zimbabwe civil war.)

The idea of cycling through Africa intrigues me; I’m certainly healthy enough to do it, but I doubt my wife would be happy for me to take so long away from her/home for so many months.

By: Don A. Holshuh

Don A. Holshuh — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 12:08:45 +0000

What I remember most was that some of the trucks had been waiting for days to cross

By: Kees Vonk

Kees Vonk — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 21:05:40 +0000

It is getting easier and easier 😉

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 20:44:50 +0000

I’m so sorry to hear about the end of this ferry, which I missed in 2018, and the one across Lake Nassar which was a truly spectacular few hours – one of the top highlights of the tour. Sad to see both of them gone…