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All in all it took 3 and a half hours to do my last post and upload the photos in Livingstone, so that kinda broke my internet cafe budget for a little while, meaning this will just be a quick update from the shores of Lake Malawi. Also complicating things: I got a reply from a literary agent who wants a sample of The City We Forgot To Name. But don't despair, if I'm frugal, I may splurge in Zanzibar and put some more (very different) photos.
The last five or so days have involved a lot of travel. Maybe 1400kms? One day we spent 11 hours on the truck. While the first week was chocka with animal sightings, this second week's highlights have involved contact with the local people of Zambia and now Malawi.
Today was the first full day since Livingstone when we didn't have to drive anywhere. In the morning about 12 of us went on a tour of the local village (Kande) which lasted from 9am until 12:30. We got to see the cassava plantations (and how they make the roots into flour for their staple diet), a standard mud-brick house, the clinic, a secondary school and the primary school. It was cool to compare and contrast this village with Nata in Botswana (when I have more time I might draw out some of the differences). The real highlight was the kids who attached themselves to us. I gave them some balloons and for the rest of the morning I was the balloon man.T hey loved having their photos taken then being showed what the photos looked like, which made me glad I chose the 3 inch screen TZ3 as opposed to the 2.5inchs on the TZ2 camera.
Lake Malawi is huge. It really feels and looks like the sea at the two camps we've stayed at so far (one more to go tomorrow). The roads in Malawi are well sealed but narrow and always lined with people. Far more people and bicycles than down south. So many children too, and most of them wave (I'm the one waving first half the time, but that's cool).
Okay, better go if we're to have Malawian Kwacha left to buy water for tonight and tomorrow (Marisa will not be best pleased if I blow it on the internet). Hope you're all well and thanks to those leaving messages on the message board (we do check).
Craig
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Anup Ok.. forget my last reply this acalluty is my favorite post yet.. i am reading out of order again! Who is this girl and what did she do with my friend Vic? I can't wait to ponder some of these things with you on our trip over some vino of course.