Description: After travelling for two months in Zambia you may be ready for a vacation from your vacation like we were - Jungle Junction's Bovu Island is the ideal place to kick back for a few days and recharge. The crew will pick you up in Livingstone and drive you out to the Zambezi riverbank about half an hour west of Livingstone from where you take a short Mokoro (dug-out canoe) ride out to Bovu Island.
Accommodation on the island is quite basic with two distinct choices - you can pitch your tent and camp or you can sleep in one of the riverside open-air bamboo huts. Both options are attractive and recommended.
There isn't much to do on Bovu Island; that is part of its appeal. Hammocks surround the honour bar, from which you can purchase small snacks and drinks at very reasonable prices; grab a book from the excellent library and lose yourself in it for a few days. Take some walks on the tiny island and explore the "far side;" Godfrey will try to teach you how to drum African style, no matter how uncoordinated you are.
Audrey's cooking is quite good and hearty - you certainly won't go hungry. If you don't want to partake in the offered food, you can always bring your own and cook it there.
In the evenings, the bar is the centre of activity. Choose from one of the many zany hats on the wall and join in the fun. If you're so inclined, you can participate actively in the drinking and other fun that goes on here.
The cost of staying on Bovu Island is very low overall. You pay a few dollars for your transfer and camping fees/sleeping plus whatever food and drinks you consume in the kitchen and honour bar; settle up in the office when you return to Livingstone.
One small word of common sense advice that I normally heed - don't leave your pants lying around at night or you may wake up to a rude surprise in the morning like I did! Susie the Scorpion decided that my pants were the nicest cave she had seen in a long time; when I put them on in the morning she let me have it really good about 8 times before I managed to get them off again! With pain shooting up my leg, I put her in a film canister to show one of the locals and he said "Ooohhh. Very bad. You will have a very bad day. But you cannot die." Phew.
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