Zambian Roads and other Zambia Transportation Tips

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Car/Motor Home
Getting TO/AROUND: I flew in on Zambian Airways from Dar Es Salaam. However, I think that the usual route these days is from South Africa or Zimbabwe.
The country had an excellent road system at that time. Paved main roads (80 mph was our typical cruising speed on the long empty stretches) and a network of quite good dirt roads. Had to watch out on these depending on the rainy season - they could get quite slick. Also had to be careful about the availability of petrol - my Peugeot 204 could get about 500 miles on a tank and I carried a jerry can for another 200 miles (never did run out!). An interesting twist that I have never run into anywhere else were 'strip roads' where only the centre portion was paved to the width of a single lane. All traffic drove on this part and, when meeting each other, each vehicle moved over to their shoulder with only one set of wheels still on the pavement! Photo of a typical secondary road from Mpika (off the Great Northern Highway to Tanzania) to Kasama. The treed landscape is typical of Zambia - not jungle, just scattered trees.

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