Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
(Great North Road, 3km from Ndola; ZMW5-50; 7am-10pm)
Jacaranda Mall is
straight out of Lusaka; it's a huge shopping complex on the edge of Ndola complete with
a Pick & Pay Supermarket as well as the usual South African chains like Steers, Debon-
airs and Nando's. Best of all is homegrown
Gigibonitas
, a little gelato parlour turning out
delicious homemade ice-cream in a dozen or more flavours.
Information
Sat, 8am-6pm Sun)
Wireless service and internet access. Located above a bar next to the
Copperbelt Museum.
Mon-Fri, 9am-noon Sat)
The reliable Voyagers can organise car rental and other travel ar-
rangements.
Getting There & Away
Ndola is about 325km north of Lusaka.
Proflight Zambia
( 0211-271032;
www.proflight-zambia.com
)
flies daily between Lusaka and Ndola (from US$60 one
way).
South African Airlink
( 0211-254350;
www.saairlink.co.za
)
has daily flights to
Johannesburg from US$400 one way, and
Kenya Airways
( 0212-620709;
www.kenya-airways.com
)
has daily flights to Nairobi from US$600 one way. The airport
is 3.5km south of the public bus station.
Rd)
, three blocks south of Buteko Ave, minibuses and buses run every few minutes to
Kitwe (ZMW15, 45 minutes). Long-distance buses depart from the stand next to the
Broadway-Maina Soko roundabout and run to Lusaka (ZMW65, four hours, around 10
buses daily). The
train station
( 617641; off President Ave Nth)
is 700m north of the
Copperbelt Museum, but trains to Lusaka (ZMW25, Mon & Fri) are infrequent and slow.
Avis
(
0212-620604)
both
have offices at the airport.
