6/12/2010

Taking all my paintings, bracelets and letters back to the UK to send, Will departed Malawi. Now there were only two in the wolfpack....

Jack and I were bored of Lilongwe so decided to head to Senga Bay. Bus cost about two quid for 2 hour ride to Salima, then pick-up truck cost us 150 kw to Senga! Thing was, we were stitched as local lady told me it was 100 but because I was "me", we were charged skintax (name given by Afrikaaner we met)!

We got walked to our Wamwai Beach Lodge by a local called Giraffe, the tallest in the village (he still wasn't taller than me).

He then took us to the Hippo Lakes (a long walk away) for 750 (3quid each). However, after a hard walk through hills, villages, beach and swamp, we could only hear the Hippos in the lagoon! The best time to see them is at dusk and dawn and we got unlucky. The walk back was more interesting. Walking up hills and rocks in pitch black darkness is not fun. Plus he was telling us that Hyenas lived in the hills and targeted the locals' livestock!

After almost an hour walking back on a detour through his home village and his Mom's house, we sat down for dinner at Wamwai for a delicious spaghetti with cheese sauce, meat and salad. I ate Jack's too as he was feeling under the weather!

I stayed up for a bit chatting to the owner's son Johann. Turns out (at 22) he is organising the lighting and sound for the massive Sean Paul concert coming up in Malawi (they love their reggae).

As we were chatting, some monster cricket/grasshopper landed on me. I shat myself, whacked it off, and then the dog teased it, biting it every few seconds before killing the spiky insect and devouring it!