Currently sitting in a small beach village on the coast of Zanzibar which is absolutely beautiful. The sand is fine pure white and the sea an amazing aqua colour...ahhh this is very nice!
Since last writing we have travelled through Malawi and up into Tanzania. Malawi was one of our favourites so far and the people were the friendliest we have come across - it was also quite cheap which is always a bonus - one dollar beers and 30 cent cokes. We stopped off at two different campsites on Lake Malawi - KanDe Beach and Chitawinga and spent several days enjoying the freshwater and crusing about the local villages.
We spent one day with a local "beach boy" and had lunch at his sister's house and visited the local school and bar where we had some crazy beer called Shaky Shaky that is fermented with milk and comes in a square cardboard container (like milk). We politely had a few sips and tried to pass it on (it was disgusting) but Steve kind of got stuck with it and ended up having to keep slugging away.
We also did a hike into the hillside to see some waterfalls and a village called Livingstonia where Dr Livingstone had a base. 10 hours later we hauled ourselves back into camp complete with an array of blisters and dehydration. Gav forgot to wear his underwear and at the top had to buy some vaseline to ease some unfortunate "chaffing" that was going on....nice! We had managed to make a chocolate cake to take with us (not a mean feat when you don't have an oven) and the local boys who came with us told us it was the first time they had ever tried chocolate cake...they also sold us some homemade post cards that were very cute hand drawings.
From Lake Malawi we beelined towards Tanzania to reach Dar Es Salaam and after two days of driving ended up in Friday night rush hour and we watched the hours tick away before we finally made it to our campsite. It was quite good though as we were literally stationary in the city for several hours and we saw loads of activity going on. Even better when we did arrive (15 hours after setting off) we had arranged for a local to buy us some seafood from the local market and cooked up a giant seafood feast of tuna, red snapper, prawns and calamari...yummo!
From there we have had 4 days to do our own thing and inevitably we all headed to Zanzibar for some beach time. Steve and I spent a night in StoneTown which is a great place to check out. It was actually quite a big night and in the wee hours of the morning we were feasting on local Zanzibar pizzas and even found the old travellers faithful of banana and chocolate! The next day we rather shabbily got up for a spice tour and then arrived at a small beach on the north eastern part of Zanzibar where we have been chilling out and enjoying seafood and cocktails. Tonight we have arranged a special meal between a few of us where we get our own private beach fire built, a table brought out on to the sand, and have an all you can eat seafood feast for $15 US per person. Can't wait!!!
I tried to upload some photos but seemed to get a mild electrocution in the process...might try again from another computer!!
xxx
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