Two sides of a Falls (ending part 2) After a total of three days on the Zambian side of the waterfall, we boarded a bus and six hours arrived in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. There's still three hours we waited until filled by another bus that took us to the border with Malawi. One of our new friends, Margaret, works in Lusaka, so there we are with her and left. Their way, we continued with our two other friends Mitsui and Helen. Young people studying at Columbia University and working for one of the UN mission in the town of Mchinji, Malawi. They invited us to stay, because we will still be on the road. In the end, considering all the stops and transplantation, in order to get to Mchinji, it took us 21 hours. At the place we arrived at four o'clock in the morning, a little nap and then went into a small hotel which stood for two days. The next day, we, together with Mitsui went on an excursion to a small village. While she was busy on some important meeting, together with my cousin Jeff played with the local football. Street soccer After spending two days in the city, we found one local resident who agreed to give us his car for the weekend. We all four went to the capital of Malawi, the city of Lilongwe, where they spent the night in the house of relatives of Mitsui. There we met with Victor, a graduate of Harvard, who also worked together with our friends. Jeff decided to stay for the weekend in Lilingve together with Mitsui, so I'm Victor and Elena went by car to Cape McLeary, who is in the southern part of Lake Malawi (this lake is also known as Nyasa, approx. Perevi.). On the road to the picturesque countryside took us four hours. We got through the pass, took a few pictures, but I managed to lose somewhere in the car keys. We had to resort to a dozen local residents, and within ten minutes of the keys were found. Elena, Mitsui and Geoff at Cape McLeary we attended the feeling that we were on the Caribbean islands. Lake area covers an area equal to the state of Vermont (about 29,000 sq km, approx. Perevi.), So the other side is not visible. The lake water is calm. Sometimes there are islands, sandy beaches, palm groves. There's always warm and calm. On the lake we had just one day, because Helen had to return to work in Mchinji. Nobody wanted to leave. We are back in Lilongwe, Mitsui got in the car and they drove to Helen in Mchinji. Jeff, Victor and I stayed at our hostess for another day. Cape McLeary The next day, Victor had to leave for work in the town of Zomba, and we are with Jeff on a minibus back to Cape McLeary. We found a bus which, in theory, was supposed to take us to the city of Monkey Bay, where we planned to spend two days and then go to the Cape McLeary. The bus was going very slowly, but the trip took place more or less normally up until to the final destination remained about 50 kilometers. Then the driver decided to put him to go it makes no sense, and we landed in the middle of the night in a small town on the horns of the devil. Now we had to take care of themselves independently. I thought that this sooner or later had to happen to us. It is common practice for these places. First, for a small fee you brings up almost to the place, and then try to steal as much money for the rest of the way. In these games we play are not going to. For a while we tried to bargain with a few drivers to get where we want, when suddenly I heard someone with a slight English accent asked me where I come from. It turned out that this guy was originally from Malawi, but he grew up in Manchester, England. His mother was from Malawi, and his father was from Britain. I told him what happened with us recently and we were invited to spend the night at his home. The next morning, he promised to help us find a car to Cape McLeary. We gladly accepted this generous offer, got into the van. His house was very nice and located on the shore of the lake. Sunset at Cape McLeary The next morning, we finally were lucky with the traffic, we boarded a small bus and went to Cape McLeary, however, initially did not choose that direction. With us on the bus were several people who went off somewhere on business. During our first visit to Cape McLeary, I tried to find out where the best hotel and the best place to camp, and this time we headed straight to the hotel under the name "Fat Monkees." You could pitch a tent in just three dollars a day and we managed to find a place right on the beach at the water with a magnificent view of the lake. Our host here, we planned to live until Friday and then go south into the city Blantyre, where we should meet with Mitsui and Helen. There we want to climb the mountain Mulandzhe, the third in Africa in height. Obviously, this is the mountain has become a source of inspiration for Tolkien while writing out his famous novel "The Hobbit, or There and Back", so I think we will definitely go up to the Lonely Mountain (not her real place of action in the works of JRR Tolkien, approx. Perevi.). Then we return to Lilongwe. Jeff and I have already bought tickets for the bus to the city of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania. A total of 27 hours - and we're there. There, we met with my friend Stephanie from Denver. She will travel with us for a month. After that we sit on the ferry and went to the island of Zanzibar. Start material:
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