Lake Malawi

I've never been in a lake that big before and its bizzare because there are tides and surf but its fresh water. Really refreshing when its a bizillion degrees and 100% humid.

The highlights were:
-Going on an epic, very very long swim out to an island of the coast.
-Fancy dress. Prior to getting to the lake we stopped in Mzuzu town to pick up fancy dress costumes for a party. This route is so well trodden by overland trucks that the locals knew exactly what we were looking for. Once we parked up they came running with bags of quite frankly hideous clothes shouting lines such as 'you want ugly clothes'. I wish I had taken some pictures because its was one of the most bizzare things I've ever seen. We came away with lots of 80s, animal print, lumo, sparkly, items... nice. So basically when we put all our old, out of date clothes in charity bins they go to charity shops in the UK. The items that the old biddies/trendy wendys don't want then get sent to Africa. Once in Africa they get SOLD at markets to the locals. The completely hideous left overs are then sold back to absolute mugs like me on overland trucks at a huge mark up so that we can have fancy dress parties.
-Pig Day. We decided to buy a pig to spit roast one day form the local village ( I am obviously vege so it wasn't my idea). I don't know what came over me but I decided to reconfirm by vegetarianism by going to see it get killed in the morning. Poor little Percy's eyes burnt holes into my heart when we got there and he was tied up. Apart from the squeeling the death wasn't actually too bad as it was quite quick- knife straight into the heart. I had to go for a lay down afterwards but I'm glad I did it and I think everyone appreciated the hog roast a bit more afterwards.

T making a punch

Anna doing a Percy impression

Making Roast Potatoes to go with Percy

Percy the Pig

Colin in Fancy Dress

Fancy Dress

At the moment we're in Lilongwe which is the capital of Malawi. Tonight we pick up 5 more people (3 Canadians, 2 Yanks) before heading to the Tete Corridor in Mozambique for one night and then ino Zimbabwe.

Can't wait to get back on the truck... NAAAAAAT.

written by  lizziecarver on November 24, 2010 from Mzuzu, Malawi
from the travel blog: Backpacking... it's not as fun as Insurance
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