We took our time to pack up as we only had a short drive ahead of us. We left Fat Monkeys at 11:00 and stopped in the town to buy some eggs and fresh produce. The road to Liwonde was the same as usual, but the last 10km had roadworks. First, just short detours around [...]
Caro said we should stop typing that we wanted to get an early start and then that it didn’t happen, but we really do discuss it in the evening. Today we again wanted to get away early as we wanted to go to the Mua Mission station and perhaps stay there if the internet is [...]
We left the backpackers at 09:00 and went straight to the Shoprite mall complex. Around the parking, there are four big food shops: Shoprite, Game, Chipiku and People’s. We started with Game and bought few snacks and ‘household’ items like sponges. We then went to Chipiku and bought some biltong sticks, chicken, mince, juice and [...]
We wanted to get an early start, but as usual, we only got away by 09:35. We emptied the Jerry cans and took the water container off the roof and refilled it with drinking water from Sunga Moyo's borehole. Our destination for today is Lilongwe where we hope to stock up on supplies and from [...]
We got up leisurely, packed up and went to the Mushroom Farm next door for breakfast. Despite the name, it is not actually a farm and they don’t even have mushrooms on their menu. It is a backpackers paradise with equally amazing views. Seeing all the young people there, we were glad about our decision [...]
Just as we wanted to get out of the tent it started to rain. We couldn’t believe that the rain even caught us in Malawi, we’ve thus had rain in every single country we visited on this trip, except South Africa. The rain got harder so we just stayed in the tent watching Netflix until [...]
We left at 09:00 after another big breakfast in the hotel. We drove north to the T10 from Uyolu as we wanted to skip the roadworks to Mbalizi. The road was very beautiful with rolling hills and valleys covered with tea plantations. There were, however, way too many towns which made the going slow. We [...]
We went down for breakfast at 08:00, taking the Nutella with us from the beginning, but sadly there weren't pancakes again. Instead there was Mandazi which still went OK with Nutella. Since there were no hard boiled eggs left, they made us fried eggs. We left Sumbawanga at 9:30 and set off on the same [...]
We wanted to get an early start, but even without having breakfast we only left at 10:00. The road through Katavi is probably the worst section of the whole western route with some corrugations and bigger holes and bumps as well as soft sand 'holes'. The speed limit is also 50km/h, but one would easily [...]
We got up to a cloudy morning and Caro made egg fried rice for breakfast. We packed up slowly and only left by 09:26. In Kigoma we stopped at a small duka to buy some snacks for the road. We took the plunge and bought an expensive tube of Pringles and some biscuits. We also [...]
