Hello all...sorry it has been 10 days +...really limited internet/electricity in Malawi and then in SA until today so here goes...hope I remember it all...
So Zanzibar, as I said, was just incrediable...really beautiful part of the world...sandy beaches, blue, transparent sea, amazing fish... Headed out snorkling, ate bbq tuna on the beach...where do you get it.... and all got burnt to a crisp...despite the large amounts of sun lotion (Eoin still peeling..looks like he has a skin disease!)... Ended up at a semi-full moon party in Kendall Beach (dont ask!!!)... and spent the rest of the time recovering.....Got the ferry back to Dar Es Saalam and stayed one more night before leaving at 4am to cross into Malawi... (did I tell you - we got tuc tuck from the camp to theferry on the way over to Zanzibar...they are teeny little cars - like golf cars, and our driver was a lunatic...driving on the footpaths, practically knocking down people etc...! so we got a taxi back after Zan...I want to live a little longer!!)...
Malawi.... crossed the border into Malawi from Tanzania...just before we did we met Mr Cool...the blackmarket money exchange guy who was able to give us 1.80 kqatcha to the dollar (the banks have fixed it at 1.40 to the dollar)...was really wierd..meeting this guy with a large suitcase of money....at the side of teh road....but that seems to be the way things are done.... so just went with it...
Spend 5 nights at Lake Malawi...wow...one of the biggest lakes in the world - looks like the sea...honestly. amazing. Spent the first two in Chitimba and then the last three in Kandi Beach.... A nasty worm thingy lives in Lake Malawi (Bilhowzie...or something...._..) and so as we were showering; paddling/swmming etc. we have to take these anti-bilhowzie tablets on the 23 sept..to stop these worms growing in our intestines - UUURRRGGGHHHH!!!! Anyhow, Lake Malawi just fabulous...really nice. Spent some time in the local villages with fabulous people.
Desperate poverty in Malawi - most probably the poorest country we have been in. There is a fuel crises at the moment; limited food (difficult to find potatoes etc.), 1 in 4 people have HIV/AIDS etc.. Awful poverty... yet the people are so friendly and nice. Very few people saying 'give me money' as in other Countries we had been in though.. in one village... it was awful...one girl curtiosed (cant spell it) me... the perception of the white person is just awful... following us around, wanting to touch our hair, skin... feeling 'priviledged' to meet us... bowing at us .... and yet these people are malnourished, have absolutely nothing... something wrong with the world....
Left the Lake for Lilongwe and were there for 4 days... limited electricity, no internet but again lovely people. Meant to be riots on one of the days we were there but they were cancelled at the last minute. I believe the government have all been fired by the president now...
Anyway, have to run...internet crashing... will update again when I can... xxx
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