Friday 26.04:
We drove back to Mzuzu and had an excellent lunch at the Indian restaurant in town. Then we stood in the long queue in front of the ATM machines to get the 130000 Malawi Kwachas = 250 us dollar for the Visa we will have to buy at the Tanzanian border. We felt like rich people with the thick pile of money in our pockets. In the eyes of the very poor Malawian populations we of course are actually rich people.
Another 3 hours’ drive up north through mountains and valleys covered with rain forest we arrived at the the shore of Lake Malawi again. It was already dark and we still had to drive up the mountain to the campsite near Livingstonia. It was a terrible extremely steep zigzag road. It was definitely the worst road so far on our trip. Ju did a great job steering our huge car up to the Mushroom Campsite. The two dutch caretakers greeted us surprised to see someone arrive that late. Our camping spot was located directly at the edge of a cliff overlooking the Lake Malawi hundreds of meters below us.
Saturday 27.04:
When we woke up the clouds came up from the valley and it lightly started to rain. We put on our rain coats and hiked up 2 hours to the town of Livingstonia. We visited the small market, the orphanage, the old stone house and church built in the British colonial past.
In the late afternoon we were back at the camp. I had a great dinner cooked by the Dutch couple. They were our age and decided to run the place for a few years. Although it is a unique place I could not imagine living here for longer than a few days.
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