New Year in Malawi

No photos - dodgy internet again

After leaving the gorgeous island of Zanzibar, we left Tanzania completely and headed off to Malawi. Most of the country of Malawi is centered around the massive freshwater lake that is Lake Malawi. It is so big that the lake is tidal and has white sandy beaches. You would not know that it wasn't an ocean when you are standing on the lake side beaches. We stayed in two campsites along the lake front as we made our way down through the country. It was at Kande beach campsite that we pulled in for new years eve. To celebrate the new year a pig was purchased and roasted spit style trough out new years eve. One of the other tavellers Geoff is a former chef and he took charge of making a great spread including three types of stuffing, roast pumpkin, roast veg, stuffed peppers, baked potatoes. Needless to say I did not have any pig myself but I stuffed myself on the rest. The food was followed by quite a large quantity of alcohol and the new year was brought in with fireworks on the beach. I stayed up and saw the sunrise over the lake which was beautiful - it was quite a start to 2010.

After giving ourselves a day off to recover from the festivities, it was back to a couple of long drive days. We passed through the rest of Malawi, endured a 4 hour wait at the border and crossed into Mozambique. We saw nothing of Mozambique, we literally drove through it. We did cross the Zambezi though - it is a very large river. We spent one night in Mozambique bushcamping under the local electricity pylons. When we awaoke everyone had static hair that was standing on end, quite amusing. Then on the morning on the 4th we crossed into the lush green countryside of Zimbabwe and drove towards Harare to find a campsite and to celebrate my birthday in style!