Danforth Yachting Lake Malawi National Park

... least 2 bikes, a couple of babies and some chickens! They will basically stop to pick people up as long as it is physically possible to fit anyone else in (and the realms of a Malawian physical possibility are very much expanded on mine!), and charge about 50p/a pound a person depending on how far you're going.<br><br>The food has been pretty decent so far, lots of chambo (lake fish) as we've been right on the lake and it's obviously very cheap by British standards ...

... referrals from the whole district so it's a pretty busy place. It consists of one corridor about 50 metres long with the wards coming off it right and left and an outpatient/casualty department at the front. Theres no splitting up of specialties like at home where you've got renal wards, chest wards, gastroenterology wards for medicine and even more for surgery - oh no. Here you've got Male, female, children and maternity where you fit regardless of whats wrong with you. TB and ...

... and it seemed like everybody was pretty pretty drunk! We watched the party from a fantastic tropical beer garden called Obrigado's - palm trees, founains, the works.<br><br>The next day we took a 9 hour bus down to Lilongwe and arrived hot and sweaty and about 60 hours after we'd set off. Yikes.<br><br>2. The next thing of note was picking up Sian from the airport (a free ride in a pickup there and back. Result.) and heading to Mangochi for Lake of Stars ...

... br><br>Anyway the bus ride lasted 7 hours instead of 4 (despite being driven in a very fast erratic way), which some quite comical moments, including a guy chasing after the bus, hitting the side in a desperate attempt to give us our change for some cokes. we all had to get off at a random town for a police check and i wanderd off to find a loo and nearly missed getting back on, but even with all of the poele fn the isles our seats had been saved.<br><br ...

... and a couple of English newlywed, I wanted to send the kids to them and say: congratulations and by the way our parents are saying DO NOT EVER HEV KIDS, but Marg stopped them. We all had a fantastic afternoon of sailing, book reading and yes of course the obligatory doughnut riding for the kids. By 4 pm we caught the old ship for the sun down cruise and stopped ...

... cove on lake Malawi. The presidents holiday home is just along the beach. There is no electricty or running water. There were no more than 8 people staying there at once. Every evening everyone sat around a fire and exchanged stories. This place was truely incredible. We only paid 80p for our bed and dinner was 2 pounds. <br><br>We stayed there our first night and had to go into the nearest town (2hours away) to get cash next day.<br>

... and Leanne were there (a couple of home friends) i was soo happy to see them..vey surreal chilling with them at the greeks house in Malawi. Also went to this Crocodile place where we witnessed lots of death, the greeks and the boys went and bought three chickens and a goat from a near by village. threw them into a pit of Crocs...kinda reminded me of Ampitheatre gladiator stylee thing...litterally the crocs were writhing and death rolling all over the place..a ...

... it sadly and twitched his shoulder to get me off...very anti-social i thought. got to cape in the dark having walked down a tarmac road for a bit waiting for a pick up to go the last 40 mins through the mountaoins to get there. Malambe's= hotel place...pretty surreal, in the way that these people literally just sit around doing zilch most of their lives...drinking swimming nipping off on boats to islands for more drinking, charged us not too ...

... only means of 'public transport' available from Cape McLear to Monkey <br> Bay. <br><br> It was one of those trips from hell. It was the same bouncy road I took <br> with Jake and Charlotte, only now I had knees and elbows to avoid, and <br> a little girl vomiting all over the place. Also I had to keep a hold of <br> one of the ...

... br> Lizards<br><br> As the hotel was very new, my room was in good condition. The mosquito <br> net did not have 30 holes in it like at other hotels, so I could keep <br> my own net packed. <br><br> I did have a few pets: three lizards on the walls, which can make funny <br> sounds and which are also hilarious to watch. One was bigger than the <br> other ...