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Another border crossing into Malawi, and we have started to keep track of our countries visited. Martin is now at 58 and Michelle at 56. The race is on!!!
Loida. our connection here in Lilongwe, was one of the girls that jumped into Devil's Pool with us at Vic Falls. She welcomed us with open arms and let us stay in the spare room at her rental place (special thanks to Frank). After getting spoilt by Diana with a lunch, she even dropped us off at Loida's work - the UNICEF office in Lilongwe. We noticed there were a lot of fancy vehicles there!!!
Touring around Lilongwe the next day was basically to find out info, and get a few chores done. Lilongwe is a pretty nondescript place, not bad, but not great. But the people seem very friendly and a highlight of the day was when I joined in a large game of BOW with a bunch of local men. Instead of just a small wooden board, they actually had all the holes dug in the ground and the board was about 20 feet long. The 'champion' was quite animated when playing his moves, and when I joined in an imitated his actions, all the men got quite a laugh!!
Seeing as though we had heard the Malawians were very friendly, we were surprised to see a fist fight break out, about 2 feet outside our minibus window, on the way back to meet Loida. I think most people were a little shocked too, as they all watched with alarm.
That evening, with Loida, her friend Leslie, and Frank, we went to a Christmas carol thing at the Four Season's complex. We had no idea what it was all about, and given that it was tough to imagine Christmas is right around the corner given the extreme heat and summer-like conditions, we walked in and were all quite shocked. It was a picnic-like atmosphere, with some decent singing along with some very chalk-board scraping shrill tones, but the biggest surprise was I think that every white person in Malawi was there. We hadn't seen such a big congregation of whites since we had been in Africa, and we found it a little strange. Luckily, Leslie came prepared with a bottle of wine (she's a good Canadian), and shared it around, before Frank treated us to a wonderful Indian curry. That's about it for Lilongwe, as we got up early to tackle the bus journey down to Mulanje on Saturday morning. *Stub
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| Martin Playing a Huge game of Boa with locals |
Loida. our connection here in Lilongwe, was one of the girls that jumped into Devil's Pool with us at Vic Falls. She welcomed us with open arms and let us stay in the spare room at her rental place (special thanks to Frank). After getting spoilt by Diana with a lunch, she even dropped us off at Loida's work - the UNICEF office in Lilongwe. We noticed there were a lot of fancy vehicles there!!!
Touring around Lilongwe the next day was basically to find out info, and get a few chores done. Lilongwe is a pretty nondescript place, not bad, but not great. But the people seem very friendly and a highlight of the day was when I joined in a large game of BOW with a bunch of local men. Instead of just a small wooden board, they actually had all the holes dug in the ground and the board was about 20 feet long. The 'champion' was quite animated when playing his moves, and when I joined in an imitated his actions, all the men got quite a laugh!!
Seeing as though we had heard the Malawians were very friendly, we were surprised to see a fist fight break out, about 2 feet outside our minibus window, on the way back to meet Loida. I think most people were a little shocked too, as they all watched with alarm.
That evening, with Loida, her friend Leslie, and Frank, we went to a Christmas carol thing at the Four Season's complex. We had no idea what it was all about, and given that it was tough to imagine Christmas is right around the corner given the extreme heat and summer-like conditions, we walked in and were all quite shocked. It was a picnic-like atmosphere, with some decent singing along with some very chalk-board scraping shrill tones, but the biggest surprise was I think that every white person in Malawi was there. We hadn't seen such a big congregation of whites since we had been in Africa, and we found it a little strange. Luckily, Leslie came prepared with a bottle of wine (she's a good Canadian), and shared it around, before Frank treated us to a wonderful Indian curry. That's about it for Lilongwe, as we got up early to tackle the bus journey down to Mulanje on Saturday morning. *Stub
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