Chitimba - Lilongwe

what a chef! you wouldnt wanna taste my cooking though...
some kids i met on the way. love the colours that africa has.
looking rather rough. biking takes it out of you. sometimes i look about 10 years older after a ride.

well we had a lovely two days at Kande beach. i managed to put my back out whilst lifting my bike up so had to rest on my last day. that evening the wind was howling hard, and at 06:00 as i woke up it started to rain. heavily. and mamma mia did it rain. buckets. so had to pack everything up and get the bike ready to roll. its a miserable sight when your entire world is drenched. i say world cos my bike and my gear is all i have. and so when everything is wet and muddy you feel a little worn down. but you get over it and we just literally waited it out. we got rolling around 11 that morning. another easy cruise. again beautiful scenery. im not going into detail as ill just be repeating myself. but yes, beautiful beautiful beautiful! the grass on the side of the road was awfully high. which made it very dangerous. kids are running all over the place down there and there are loads of goats and cows constantly running onto the road. usually they cut the grass back for safety. its better if you can see them approaching. but like this it was so hard. they could literally appear 3 metres in front of you and you would have seen them coming. so we went quite slowly. about 60km/h. the ride was a little boring for the first 2 hours. we stopped for some fried casava, which is a type of potato, like a sweet potato but not. delicous! the ride got better and i stopped falling asleep. i have a wonderful remedy for falling asleep. i sing to myself. as awfull as it sounds it keeps me awake. and im starting to come up with some pretty horrific songs of late. not in content but in pitch! we arrived in Lilongwe to find a pretty little african town. not the usual chaotic, dirty beyond belief, city. but a nice clean one with green trees, everything seems so orderly here. a nice change. today were off to zambia. and i think we'll be bush camping tonight juts beyond the border. apparently the petrol in zambia costs 2 usd per litre! might be pushing our bike through the place in the end. feels like a bit of the adventure is gone now. everything is so easy down here in southern africa. where are the deserts? i dont wanna see a gas station every 50km, and i dont wanna buy bottled water. all sure signs that were arriving in civilization.