A Storm Of Flies

Lake flies emerge from Lake Malawi and swarm in the air currents beneath the clouds, forming their own brown clouds of BILLIONS of insects. Occasionally the clouds are blown ashore where they become both a nuisance (the tiny flies fill your nostrils) and a delicacy (they are harvested an turned into "burgers")

KALIYA Solar Roof Diary - Day 3

December 6th 2006
Day Three Plan for the day - get all of the modules attached to their support frames by lunch and start marking out the roof in the afternoon while the electrician pulled cables for me. I hadn't accounted for bendy and very hard hardwood timbers and an electrician who has gone AWOL. I thought the pile of bent and twisted timbers of varying thicknessnes on the building floor were the s ... read more

Africa » Malawi » Northern » Nkhata Bay

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

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