Crossroads Hotel Lilongwe
Mchinji Roundabout, Crossroads Complex, PO Box X1 Lilongwe, Malawi
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Escape from Trucklife
IT was an early morning for me this morning, but believe it or not, it was out of choice! I had to take a walk along the beach to see the beauty that is Lake Malawi and met several people on the way. There was Stan, studying Marketing and making and selling bracelets to try to fund his studies, and others with similar stories. A little way along the black sand beach there was also some children playing in an upturned boat in between ...
Lake Malawi!
... anything else we have ever experienced. The first part of the village tour took us the school, which I was really excited to see. I knew things were going to be different from what I was used to seeing at home but I don't think I was mentally prepared for what I saw. Kids from neighbouring villages come to school here as well so there were over 1000 children attending this school with only about 10 teachers. Every ...
Could you smoke all of this?
... as much time here as elsewhere and I certainly haven't travelled around as much.
Outside of the big towns it still has the African vibe, shacks, women clad with kangas and all, but Lilongwe is a sprawling and sparse city. It has wide good roads and huge modern buildings. These are mainly (and strangely) banks and supermarkets. In fact this afternoon I simple went for walk in the western shopping plazas (I don’t like shopping) and as I passed through the ...
Waiting for Friends. And then for Baggage
... br> We did things while we waited though. On their first full day here, we tried our luck at playing the black money market at their own game. There exist two exchange rates in this country: one official rate which gives, for instance, around 160 kwacha to one US dollar; and the black market rate of around 185 kwacha to one dollar. The trick would be that we buy kwacha on the black market and sell to the banks which offer the official rate. A very tidy profit ...
One last day of the visitors
... weeks. Eventually a
compromise was reached and they were released. Maarten’s
mum Ans had no idea what had happened to them as the ship only had
time to send a mayday signal before it was captured. Quite a
character building experience! Big party of overlanders just arrived
at camp site.They are from Kent and are on a one month World
Traveller programme and the Leader lives in Wrexham on Holt Road.
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