🇿🇲 2/2025 Zambia Travel

Day 144, 20.02.2025 — A new stop and a workday. 👁️‍🗨️

We are back in Zambia. 🇿🇲 Before gaining independence from Britain in 1964, Zambia was called Northern Rhodesia. Remember that man, Rhode, who colonized both Zimbabwe and Zambia? 🤔 Lusaka itself has often served as a buffer zone where conflicts from surrounding countries were resolved. 🫂

It rains so heavily all night that it feels like the streets will be impossible to walk through the next day. But no — it’s not that bad. ☔ We’ve only experienced such heavy rains in Congo, and there it was tragic. 😵‍💫 Today, we’re heading to the Malawi embassy. Malawi is another country with a $50 e-visa, but applying online requires an invitation letter with a signature, which is not easy to get. 😶‍🌫️ Before, it was possible to get a visa at the Malawian embassy in Lusaka for $100, and we are ready to pay extra. 🤑 But today, they tell us — no. Only online. 💻 And what about that invitation letter? A strange requirement for a first-time visitor who doesn’t know anyone in the country. If it has to be bought, isn’t that an impractical rule that proves nothing? 😜 Visa applications always come with weird rules.

Archa insists we must see the ambassador, while the guard insists that he has been instructed to turn everyone away with the phrase: “Visa only online!” 🙉 Archa, however, manages to persuade the…