Day 7: to Liwonde

Today was a travel day. We began today with a meeting at the Malawi Ministry of Health where Jean Richardson, an expert in HIV prevention gave a presentation. After our meeting we drove to Liwonde with a planned stop for a lunch at a village that did not work out.

Highlights of the day included:

Driving on a road that was literally on the Malawi–Mozambique border. Malawi on our left and Mozambique on our right.

Beautiful scenery with mountains in the background, some of the mountains had large rock formation. We passed a couple of fields with what looked to me like glacial erratics, rocks left by glaciers. Of course, I have no idea how far south glaciers got in Africa or if they even were any glaciers in Africa.

A drive down a beautiful, windy road with a view of Lake Malawi in the distance at one point.
Luzu, our driver, losing and then finding the keys to the van. He promised to tie the key to a string around his wrist.

Stephanie eating the tomato gravy for dinner that came with the chicken that Margo, Julie, and I ordered. It was better than the tomato soup she ordered to save money.

It was Rachel’s birthday. Julie, Margo, Stephanie, and I were sitting at one table. We ordered her a piece of chocolate cake for Rachel to celebrate her birthday. We had to order a second piece of cake for her after we ate the first one. Don said that we were "flashing our impulsive pathologies.



Pictures from top: Luzu with an animal skin trying to scare us, Stephanie and Tyler, scenes on today's drive.