Day 7

     I had a short day today because I had to get on a flight at 7 PM. I flipped through my tourist book to try to find a fun quick thing to do to spend my last day in the lush South African country of Zambia. I also didn't want to travel to far from Lusaka beecause I needed to be able to get the airport easily and on time. With today being Sunday I decided I'd check out the famed Zambian Sunday Market. This is one of the things that people had been talking about aroung the city of Lusaka all week and since it was in the Arcades Shopping Center's plaza and I was staying in the local hotel I decided it would be a great idea. I went fairly early to the Sunday Market but it was already thriving with locals. Tourists didn't show up until around eleven o'clock but they just added to massive population that had gathered there already. There were various vendors selling all sorts of things. They had local pottery, paintings, small scale sculptures and statuettes, skins of the native animals such as crocodiles and some furs. They also had food stands with veggies and various types of meat but since I was heading home I had no interest in these things. I ended up buying a vase, a bowl, a small statue, some crocodile skins and a few pieces of the local jewelry made of things like elephant tusks and rhino horns. I spent my entire day here and about two hours before I needed to head for my flight I went to Rhapsody's once again to have an elegant African meal before going home. After all this I had spent around $85. I got on the bus to head to the airport and I watched out the windows as the city passed by. I reached the airport and as my plane climbed I waved a final goodbye to the lush green forests and parks of Zambia.