Lilongwe - Hey, It has a Nice Supermarket

Trip Start Jan 20, 2005
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Trip End Dec 27, 2005


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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

I may offend some by saying this, though I don't think my blog viewership has reached out to many Lilongweains, but Lilongwe is to this casual visitor a contender for the worst capital in the world award. Its not that it is particularly dangerous, though I hear those walking around after dark are likely going to find trouble, or that the dusty streets and drab buildings are far from inspiring, or that it is so spread out and seems to lack a true heart of a city, Its that combined, all of these make for a place I was ready to move on from quickly. To be fair, there was a nice supermarket and a couple of nice restaurants. After being out of it for a while, there is a certain thrill to walking up and down the isles of a supermarket that has a relative variety of goods to offer and is so clean. There was also pretty good internet access.

This was our second stop here and it wasn't so bad. We found a cleanish room near the bus station (think of the hotels in the US near bus stations, then consider this is an African bus station and you'll imagine what this place looked like - are we having fun yet?). We weren't planning on staying long and found a bus leaving at 5am for Lusaka, the capital of Zambia where we were meeting my father on Sept 2nd. We rolled out of town at 6am on our 10 hour drive to Lusaka. The bus was a nice one and we settled in for the long journey.
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