Florence Holiday Resort Lake Malawi National Park

... 10 villages without electricity and running water. When walking around kids always say "Hello" (I'm sure some of them can say this before anything else, they are so small!), and "How are you?" and quite a few of them also "Give me money" and "Give me bottle".... by this they mean emtpy plastic water bottles and though we're not quite sure what they do with these we oblige where possible. I much prefer it here at Cape Maclear than where we were before as the local people ...

... maternity as this was the stuff that we knew least about and what would be needed most at Monkey Bay. <br>The maternity ward is the busiest place in the hospital with women dropping sprogs at an alarming rate and about 3 c-sections a day. When you walk on the ward there's women everywhere- lining the walls of the corridor, sitting on the floor, lying under beds, two on some beds. One day there were 208! Bear in mind theres only about 50 beds. Some of them are waiting to pop, some ...

... have since done our PADI course and are now qualified Open Water divers! The rest of the time has been, you guessed it, more swimming in the lake and relaxing. We probably have BIlharzia but don't think it will kill us yet.<br><br>I think that's about all I can be bothered to type - it's a sweltering 30+ degrees here and the lake awaits.<br><br>Hope you're all well. Next stop for us is Liwonde National Park and a kayak safari up the Shire River!<br><br>A&amp;L (&amp;S)<br>

... there fortunately was. This took quite some rather animated miming but he took us the 3km to a hotel successfully. It was a bit ******, over[ppriced and the most discusting food i had ever ever eaten, but we had made it to the lake and were rather chuffed with ourselves. The semi cold beer went donw very well on the beach.<br><br>Apologies for the rather rubbish typing, this is a VERY slow computer. will update the next few days of the trip in the next few days! c:

... us out back to their headquarters in the centre of town. So after talking over our options we decided to go spend a few days on the sure of Lake Malawi. I know I know it sounds awful to leave this place and go to a luxury hotel but trust me after the night we just had... and to top it all, my right eye now is starting to give me grief. So after lunch we all piled up in a van for the 4 hours ...

... coolest bed with a massive mosquito net, we actyually felt like Princesses, I honestly only thought celebrities and people would stay in places as gorgeous as that! We had the laziest week in the world, sitting in the hammocks reading magazines and playing baow all day, it was gorgeous! The whole area was just the most beautiful place in the world it was totally amazing. We had a bbq on the beach one night with some guys doing srumming for us, one night we went ...

... to casually munch on an egg, whilst Anthony had the worst stuff including, a slap from Georgie, having his eyebrow shaved, having 3 eggs smashed on his head and haveing as much banana as could fit into Georgies mouth spat in his face, all highly amusant, Wilf also had to have his ear pierced..so generally lots of un and games that night. Day two went to school in the morning, kids are having exams, so we just collected in hte Engliush papers from standard 6B and ...

... little kid there zander south african and is a real life tarzan boy he's crazy! and chills at this hotel all his life i htink he is 6, looks older and has never been tutored..one of the girls from Lizoulou school has been offered a job to teach him for two years she's pretty keen, personally i'm not sure its such a brill idea, but we shall see. everyone ran out of money big time this weekend, so was borrowing of the three people who were ...

... people. Being white, we were picked out of the <br> group of waiting people by an official, who arranged out tickets... I <br> always feel uneasy when being favoured above others but hey, it saved <br> me a long wait. <br><br> I got myself a private cabin on the boat, for I didn't feel like sleeping <br> outside on the top deck with ...

... cabins were convenient. <br><br> There was a restauran t that served good food and cold drinks. <br><br> <br><br> Beach!<br><br> What was best about this hotel compound was that it bordered the beach <br> and a very swimmable part of Lake Malawi. <br><br> <br><br> <br> View on Lake Malawi from Cape McLear<br><br> <br><br> <br><br> <br><br> Before I went ...