Blogs from Chitimba Beach, Lake Malawi, Malawi, Africa - page 4

Tanzania to Malawi on the African Express !!

Africa » Malawi » Lake Malawi » Chitimba Beach August 26th 2007

After a week in Arusha, (while the family went on Safari and we caught up with friends), the trip proper was about to start. We were planning to fly to Dar es Salaam (to save 10 hours on a bus) and then catch the train to Malawi and make our way overland down through Malawi then Zambia and ending up in Victoria Falls. Of course plans sometimes need to change!!! The train from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania travels some 1800kms over 3 days all the way into Zambia but we were only going to go to the Malawi border (about 840kms) - but that was still going to be 24 hours. We decided to travel First Class, which meant that we had a cabin to ourselves, and that we could order dinner and breakfast from ... read more

Chipata to Lake Malawi

Africa » Malawi » Lake Malawi » Chitimba Beach October 27th 2006

Sugar cane workers

jenron

We crossed the border into Malawi. Frustratingly we discovered, on being handed back our passports later, that our Yellow Fever certificates had disappeared from our passports since handing them to Kat for bulk processing prior to entering Zambia. This was a niggling worry as theoretically we could be stopped at some borders without them. We reached the Malawi capital of Lilongwe. We queued in the hat for ages at a cash machine. We saw a man with the biggest growth on his neck that I've ever seen. We then rushed to an internet cafe for half an hour to email the travel clinic back in Nowich for duplicate Yellow Fever certificates. They are availalble for £10 but the difficulty is getting them to us. Lilongwe is very poor - we met some street kids. One ... read more

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