An early start as a long days drive to cross the border into Zambia. We had a small detour (extra 100km) as Driver Dave missed a turning. At lunch we were offered local cuisine (mice on a stick) but as they weren't cooked we declined. Also witnessed Driver Dave having to explain to police that his licence was perfectly legitimate as the vehicle is a "truck" as opposed to a "bus". Observation: as we have driven through Tanzania & Malawi there have been multi...

Today Tessa & I were joined by Bob to do the village walk - we loved the experience with only 3 of us. Our guides were Benjamin & Nelson. We were joined by Winston & Donald Duck who escorted us to chat with the hope of selling us some of their art work at the end. First stop was near the chief's house where we were told about the chickens who are totally free range and bring themselves back to their homes at night. Also about the staple diet for peo...

Vikki had a quiet day - doing laundry, her exercises, quick emails over dial up, reading and taking a few photos. Tessa had meant to go diving but as it is extremely windy this was postponed. She decided to go horse riding in the afternoon as she describes here: I headed off with Tamara, Emily, Miriam and Heiko and we were joined by Lottie from another truck. Once fitted with our helmets and matched with a horse (mine was called George aka Dinosaur) we rode out...

Up early to get tent down so we could go shopping at the local market before breakfast. We both came away with a number if beautiful hand carved wooden artifacts. We drove to the nearest large town where our first stop was at a market to buy second hand clothes for fancy dress. We pulled a name out of a hat & that's who we were buying fancy dress for. Second stop was at a brand new supermarket. We had to get supplies for 4 days. There was a lot to choose fr...

Practically a sleep in with departure at 0700 as we had another long drive to cross the border into Malawi. The border crossing was relatively painless, although it took awhile for Miriam's visa to come through. For some reason Switzerland is one of the few countries required to get a visa to enter Malawi. The eat of us just for photographed and stamped in. At the campsite Vikki, Miriam and Hilary opted to go for a village walk where they went to the school and ...