lake buses

Rhona has had a friend, Jane, visiting from Scotland and went to Zambia on safari and then to Victoria falls. When they came back into Malawi I was still on holiday so I went to meet them and we traveled up to the north part of the lake. We jumped on a bus in Lilongwe for Mzuzu which we thought would take about 6 hours…8½ hours later we arrived in the dark with no way to continue on to Nkhata Bay. No worries we were able to stay with some Australian volunteers there who were very hospitable to our crashing at their flat and then off the next morning for the lake and 2 days of sun and water. The water was so blue and the fish are stunning there as there are lots of rocks and things for them to hide in. one night we tried the “local restaurant” so named but we should have known being very close to our tourist hostel that the nsima we would get there would not be optimal. Instead it was rock hard and heavy…a sad showing for Jane’s first experience. The next day the hostel put on a free traditional Malawian meal that was really good…Friday I headed back to nkhoma—left rhona and jane at another spot on the lake to do some diving…arrived back with enough time to do some visiting and repacking to go to a wildlife park with the NC group.