Sign me up

August 11th 2009
The Lilongwe-Blantyre run is clearly the flagship bus route in all of Africa, as I pay $20 for a journey that's not even 4.5 hours - more noteworthy and incongruous is that the bus has AC and a toilet. For free, we get views of various inselbergs rising out of the green countryside. The landscape here really doesn't end with Lake Malawi. Blantyre is as lacking in cheap accommodation as Lilong ... read more

Africa » Malawi » Southern » Blantyre

Established in 1891, the British protectorate of Nyasaland became the independent nation of Malawi in 1964. After three decades of one-party rule under President Hastings Kamuzu BANDA the country held multiparty elections in 1994, under a provisional... ... read more

Message Follow (37) Comment

John McCabe

Jabe

I quit the rat race in 2005, after working as an IT project manager for over a decade. I then travelled around the world for 4 years, a period of my life which is covered by this blog. After finishing my trip, I wrote a book about my dissatisfaction with my career, my reasons for quitting my job, life as a first-time thirtysomething backpacker, and finally the lessons learned from being exposed to experiences and people that I would never have encountered if I'd stayed in my office. The book is called "Out Of Office Male" and is available at all the usual eBook outlets. I took a ... full info

Joined	August 24th 2005	Trips	6
Last Login	December 19th 2022	Followers	37
Status	BLOGGER	Follows	0
Blogs	460	Guestbook	486
Photos	10.6K	Forum Posts	460

[photo=4230199]

[blogger=6222]

[photo=4230199]

[blog=425232]

[blogger=6222]

Top Photos Trips (6)Blog Map

Tot: 0.049s; Tpl: 0.004s; cc: 9; qc: 13; dbt: 0.0257s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1; ; mem: 1.1mb