The drive back north to Lilongwe took us along the border with Mozambique which is said to be another very scenic African country but which is not on our agenda for this trip. We reached Lilongwe in 6 hours and found it to be a nice sleepy little city with good facilities and a couple of small modern shopping malls. Lilongwe golf club has a small camping ground with good facilities where we stayed and Peter managed to get in a game of squash with the resident p...

We had a choice after leaving Senga Bay whether to go to Lilongwe the capital ready to move on to Zambia or travel south to the bottom of the lake to Cape Maclear and we chose Cape Maclear. Unfortunately aftter a few miles the road became a sandy track which steadily got worse and worse and after another 60 miles off roading we decided that if we had know the road was so bad we would have gone to Lilongwe instead. However, as soon as we saw Cape Maclear we chan...

It rained during the night so we left at 8 a.m. to get on the road early as we didn't fancy the drive back down the hairpin bends which would have been much worse than coming up. The road out south was a sandy track but with evidence of damage by the rains in several places as we drove along. It was thundering and lightening with heavy black clouds and the wind was whipping up, a sure sign of a storm on the way. Peter was on pins as once the heavens opened the...

By daylight we could see the view from the campsite was fabulousstretching right out over the lake. We walked up to Livingstonia by way of Manchewe Falls, a spectacular 50m waterfall with a cave behind in which local people hid from slave hunters 100 years ago. Livingstonia was the missionary site that David Livingstone set up during his missionary days in Africa and the small museum there details early European exploration and missionary work in Malawi. It wa...

We had our last delicious coffee with Francis at Utengule Coffee Lodge and had a look around the beautiful bedrooms they have created at the Lodge. They were absolutely stunning and each room had a magnificant view out towards the mountains. As the garage didn't take credit cards we had to take a last trip into Mbale to get money from the ATM to pay for the repairs.On the day before we had once again been stopped by the police for 'speeding'. This time the off...