Capital Hotel Lilongwe
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A very long walk
... mini-bus, which arrived within a few seconds. Who says that public transport in Africa is rubbish?! I paid the few kwacha and sat down to a few strange looks that a mzungu (white person) was on their bus.
I found the red cross building without so much as a wrong turn and met the lady responsible for co-ordinating their programmes, Helen. She was lovely and more than happy to talk to me about their programmes and priority levels for the work they ...
Lillongwe, capital of Malawi
On the surface, Malawi doesn't really seem any different to Tanzania, the houses and markets are similar, and the children still come running out to wave as we go past. But after being here a couple of days I am beginning to see that Malawi is a lot less developed than the countries we have been to so far. We stopped in Lilongwe, the capital today. A few people in our group went to the bureau de change to change some excess Malawian kwacha into something ...
Lake Malawi!
... 2 days of relaxation. The highlight of this part of the trip was definitely our visit to the Witch Doctor on the last day. We had been warned by someone else who had visited him the day before about the crazy dancing he did and his ludicrous predictions but we had to go anyway. Chris and I managed to get a private visit since we were all going in small groups. Once we got into the room, we realized that it was going to ...
Am I still in Africa?
... Mzuzu, north, the opposite direction to Lilongwe, but the nearest big town with definitive bus transfer. It appeared that the travel gods were on our side this morning; we pulled directly into the bus station and blocked the 7am bus to Lilongwe in and at our arrival time, of 7:15am, it was trying making its way out of the station. We were the last two on board and surprisingly had prime seats at the back. Strangely for Africa the bus was of excellent quality, resembling a new English ...
Des and Grace Take Lilongwe Home
... a sad moment when they left for home.
But we had a day and a half left together in Lilongwe. What did we do? Well, we went for dinner, twice (thank you the two of you for feeding me so well!!). We caught up randomly again with friends we had made in Nkhata Bay. We went round the market. And then we sat and waited for the taxi to come and take my friends away. We hugged, they jumped in the car and I walked back to an empty ...



