holiday overview

Left early (ish) on Saturday for parts unknown (also known as farther north on the lake). Travelling with james who has been here for almost 6 months, doing maintenance and construction on the guest house and who leaves at the end of the month. He’s been all over the south of Malawi but wanted to see what is up north. It is less populated, more nature. We borrowed tents, sleeping bags and camped our way up the lake. 6 days, 5 nights in different lodges at different parts of the lake, untold number of transport (6 on day 1), lots of meeting different people (walking to one lodge we met someone who introduced himself as Cheeseontoast), lots of rain, also plenty of sun for sunburns and many police blocks (2 that were of particular interest)…it was interesting to find that we fit in or at least felt much more comfortable in the places where there were less mzungus as opposed to the couple of places where the lodge was overrun with them. Not too surprising really as the places with lots of mzungus were mostly for passers-through. (for those who’ve been to New Zealand it felt like staying in a hostel where the Kiwi Experience stopped). Luckily that was only two nights. The other three we were pretty much the only guests at the lodges.