Light.

Eerste snipperdag '11

Malawi.

View from my bedroom-window in Nkatabay.


Zomba Plateau.







Mnt Mulanje, trying to hide.

Thyolian Tea (as in, tea from Thyolo).


Thyolo District Hospital.

With Christmas, we (my dad, our guide Peter and I) climbed Mnt Mulanje, which turned out to be quite slippery during the rainy season, and is a steep climb, year-round.


Departure from Chitakale (at the foot of Mulanje): Tuesday 8am

Arrival, with a big nightbus, Nkatabay: Wednesday 4.06 am

Woei! Uhu, this was our hut... :)

After a few lazy days, we were on the way to:

Nyika Plateau!

I know. I'm cheating. Because I'm not even close to Malawi at the moment; have been home for a little more than 4 weeks now. But I guessed at least some of you wanted to see a little of Malawi...

Cool things I can tick off my to-do list:

• See the African stars twinkle
• Drink homemade -still bubbling- sorghum beer from a big clay-pot, at a local Rwandan wedding, sharing the few hollow drinking sticks with the other guests
• Stand at the back of a pick-up truck while its driving through a national park, with one of the best singer-songwriters of this planet singing in my left ear
• Go for a very sweaty run through a big tropical arboretum, during sunset, not seen by anybody, except a group of monkeys
• Have tons of little friends, and be at home, in Umurera-village
• Go for a hike in one of the largest remaining pieces of African mountain forest
• Eat a piece of cow stomach (still feel like throwing up when I think about it...)
• Be greeted by my own -quite difficult- name, by countless children, along my way to work, in rural Africa
• Taste a mango, just seconds after it left the tree, because it was me, floating right there, in Lake Malawi, underneath a mango tree
  
• Enjoy a beautiful purple, and orange, and pink, and red, sunset, while being surrounded by herds of quiet, very chill, elephants
• Swim across a swollen mountain-stream, dressed, and packed, because it was the only possibility to reach a dry place during some very rainy moments of the rain season
• Come home, after not being home for quite a few months
  

Zambia: South Luangwa NP.

Tanzania.

Rusumo-border.

Kahama. Church being build.

(Dirty) Dodoma