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The air here is cool and refreshing. You breathe it in, feeling as it enters through

your nose and mouth and flows through you from head to toe. It heals and replenishes

every part of you. Opening your eyes now, you stretch your arms up toward the cloudless

sky, feeling a welcome sensation in the muscles of your back and shoulders. You smile at the

sun, giving silent thanks for this glorious day before allowing your arms to drop loosely

by your sides. Looking forward, you savor the beauty all around you. You're standing on

the sandy bank of the Zambezi River in Zambia, a landlocked country in southern Africa.

At over two and a half thousand kilometres long, the Zambezi is the longest east flowing river

on the African continent and the fourth longest overall. It rises in the wetlands of northern

Zambia before moving into Angola, Namibia and Botswana. From there, it travels along the border

between Zambia and Zimbabwe before marking its grand finale in Mozambique, where it empties

into the Indian Ocean. In the local Tonga dialect, the name Zambia means great river

and it's quite a sight to behold. You find it mesmerising, the way the sunlight

bounces across the greenish blue water and the sounds the river makes as it ripples along the

surrounding land. You listen now as water laps against the canoes more nearby, one of which

will soon transport you across its enchanting expanse. This stretch of river is classed as the

midsection of the Zambezi and it holds a particular charm being that it flows between two countries.

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