Malawi 10: M5 to Nkhotakota National

The M5 highway south from Nkhata Bay was not without its challenges. Absolutely faith in our driver, McDonald, whose job it is. Having grown up in South Africa, I was familiar with its roads. It was the size and frequency of the oncoming trucks and the number of pedestrians and cyclists and the size of the cavities and pavement drop-offs.
Through Dwangwa town where the town embraces the road and makes it part of the market as though the road were a piazza. Children running around; youngsters sitting in groups chatting; a bicycle with a whole live pig somehow mounted on the carrier. Across the Dwangwa River - the bridge washed away by the last flood and now a Chinese company rebuilding thankfully because the government here see no point I doing anything if foreign aid will do it for them and they can take a cut to top up their overseas bank accounts.
Rafiki (friend) Lodge. A sigh of relief to be somewhere things work and stuff does not dangle or fall off or potentially electrocute you. A beautiful lunch then a guided drive into Nkhotkota Reserve and sighting of some lovely birds and a breeding herd of sable, the most beautiful antelope - only seen one before.
Now nine o clock and past my bedtime.Read more