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| Another Beautiful day in Africa |
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| Was this Bridge passed fit for use after this incident |
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| Now that was history!! |
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| This was where Livingstone made his umbrella presentation to the Chief a magnificent Fig Tree |
We leave Ngala at a civilised time but the big girls want to
visit a pottery shop in Dedza, which ultimately takes 80kms out of our direct
route, but before I tell you about that I decide we must find a couple of trees
in Kota Kota one where Livingstone met with some chief and presented him with
an umbrella and another……
We have tried to find this place on our last visit to Malawi
without any luck in fact we thought the trees had been cut down and once again
we have the same problem, but a very nice young man stops and asks us if we are
looking for Livingstone's Tree and offers to show us where it is. Well there is
no way in hell we would have found this going by directions and a map in Bradt.
Have included some photo’s on this Blog of this exciting event!
We then press on to Dedza and I have never seen a road like
this rising up over 1000m we have a switch back road that conservatively had
over 25 hairpin bends in fact by the time we get to the top we all feel sick.
The pottery is very nice but quite pricey and ideally one
needs to give them your own design and then they ship it to you, we decide to
give it a miss, but we do enjoy their cheese cake and apple pie.
We now have to go down the same road, but before that we get
caught for speeding, another R150 fine. The trip down does not give us the same
sick feeling and we ultimately get to Norman Carr around 04h30pm and Claudia
arranges to go on the sunset cruise starting at 05h00pm with Sinead.
We have decided to go through Mozambique , but will play it by ear
as the Mozambique Embassy here says that the unrest has calmed down and if
there are any problems they will put us in a convoy.
We had an enjoyable evening with Taffy and Jenny who are the
ultimate in hosts as were Chris and Sandy at Ngala, two places one must stay in
Malawi
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