Some of Jimmy's family
While waiting for my elusive phone charger to return to me, Jimmy insisted that I try Malawi's local sorghum and maize beer at his favourite local, Bizza's Bar. Chibuku has an acquired taste and texture and a relatively low alcohol content. The bottles are refundable too, a good thing. Desire, the lady in the middle, taught me the national anthem. Now I feel like a Malawian :-)
Before my 11hour journey back to Lilongwe.
It only takes 6hours to travel by bus. The trick comes in when it's not a scheduled coach and you have to wait for the bus to fill up with passengers before departing. A long, long journey ahead was made more exhausting due to the broken window next to my seat. Fortunately, I was seated next to a kind man and the two of us worked together to devise a plan to block the window, sum-what successfully, with a sign board. Phew! After departing the depot at 5pm and a dozen stops along the way, we arrived in Lilongwe at 11pm. I will definitely be taking the 7am SOSOSO Coach next time and always again. A little more pricey but worth it, they offer snacks and cool drink too. Good value.
A business. Cellphone charging at the bus depot. I wouldn't try it after talking to a backpacker a couple of weeks ago about her cell which gave up the ghost after using similar methods of desperation charging. There's a difference between low quality Chinese products and high quality Chinese products. You know what I'm saying.
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