We spent 5 days in Malawi , 3 in Lake Malawi , amazing place!
Digby went scuba diving and Sophie chilling on the beach.
We had a fancy dress / punch party where the theme was do a costum for some one with bin bags, it was a crazy party!!! Who knew you could be so creative with a pen and some bin bags. We also went into the local village at night to eatwith our hands, ugali (the staple which around 80% of the continent of Africa eat each night) eggs in tomato and spinach and many local delights. Mainly vegetable based dishes. Meat is to expensive so the locals rarely eat it and so neither do we.
Unfortunately the next day Sophie had a big hangover, not until the next day did we discover it wasinfact Mallaria so she spent the 3 next days sleeping and feeling bad.
Digby during this time went visiting school, hospital and local village. Digby: " I see children who also have Mallaria like Sofi, but they cannot afford the drugs which cost only $5 dollars (we have Sofi's reciept) more than half the children I meet will never reach 5 years old. It is a horrific thought, I truly hate this disease." Despite this the people and children who are not sick are so happy and playful you would hardly think Mallaria is on there mind. Lake Malawi is such a beautiful place the contrast is hard to absorb, we arenot sure how we should feel/ remeber it.
Here the best of Malawi:
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