Up North

Just returned from an Easter weekend road trip with some friends to Malawi's Northern Region. Fourteen hours of driving, forty litres of black market petrol, and innumerable bottles of Kuche Kuche got us to Mushroom Farm - a hippy eco-lodge perched on the side of a hillside; Manchewe Falls; the old Livingstonia Mission; and back down the Lakeshore road, stopping at Chitimba, Nkhata Bay, Makuzi Beach, and Kandi Beach.

Here are some snaps:

The route

Dave A looking relaxed on the Kandewe Basket Bridge

Haggling over the price off black market petrol after a logistical failure

The view from Mushroom Farm

Taken from the caves behind Manchewe Waterfall - Malawi's highest

Edwardian buildings at the Livingstonia Mission

Makuzi Beach