The Great Safari: Part 3
My journey on board the MV Liemba was a highlight. For over 80 years, the old German s teamship (formally known as the Graf von Goetzen) has been travelling along the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika between Kigoma in Tanzania and Mpulungu in Zambia. It is the last vessel of the Kaiserliche Marine (German Imperial Navy) still actively sailing anywhere in the world and launched in 1915 as one of three vessels the German Empire used to control Lake Tanganyika during the early part of the First World War. After being scuttled in 1916 she was raised by a British Royal Navy salvage team in 1924 and returned to service. These days she transports passengers and cargo but in days gone by she repatriated more than 75,000 refugees back to Zaire during the First Congo War and still takes Congolese and Burundi refugees back to their respective countries if needed . Thankfully this time I managed to get a compact and bijou first class cabin complete with 2 small bunk bed...