What better way to start a Monday morning than a swim in Lake Malawi at 6am!!! Bliss :) Phoebe, Nicole, Randa, Stephan and I jumped the waves and swam for a good hour! I really was thinking of all you guys starting work in a few hours honestly :) We had a late breakfast at 8.30am and then hit the road again, heading to the capital of Malawi Lilongwe! I don't think I've mentioned the roads in Africa...! The truck journey is worse than what I imagine it would be ...

Another hangover free morning in Africa :) I really should have been suffering though considering how strong the punch turned out to be. As I was already up, I went on a village tour with Randa, Una, Yan and Sam that started at 8.30am well ish after they waited for me to get ready. I'm really glad I went, as it was still informative even though I spent 4 weeks in a similar environment in Kenya. It was a walking tour though and the heat was the same as yester...

Yay!! Im super happy this morning, thats 2 nights now I've not been bitten and we managed to sleep through to our alarm going off at 5.45am! I got a much better sleep last night, still wakening a couple of times though but glad I had an early night. And I'm still truely scarred with bites from Zanzibar! On the road by 7am and headed south going up the mountains, the views were amazing! Yesterday on the long truck journey Greg pulled names out of a hat and matc...

That's my 6 nights in Tanzania up, today is a 10 hour transit day through to Malawi. It was much cooler last night and slept no problem. We stopped for lunch in Tanzania before heading to the border, it looked a nice hotel from the outside but was unsure about the chicken we we're eating :( Let's hope my tummy stays strong!! Crossing the border was quite easy, it took around an hour for everyone to be departed from Tanzania and got their Visas for Malawi bu...