Malawi Gold

On the 24th of August me and 10 others set off for Heathrow terminal 4 to fly to Lilongwe, Malawi making a brief stop in Nairobi, Kenya and in Zimbabwe. Ignoring the food poisoning i managed to get at the airport before i left.. :P

So on arrival in Malawi we spent time looking around the local markets and gathering food for our 6 day trek before getting onto a bus for 8 hours to get to malange.

 Mt Malange

 Mt Malange

Street sellers from the bus

We then arrived at Malange View Hotel for an early night before 6 days hiking up the mountain. The first two days we spent with porters carrying our bags as we faced a steep incline then for the last four days we walking solo in groups of 4 and 5 carrying our own 65L bags. The terrain was tough but the views were beautiful.

 Wonderford  - our guide

 Our amazing walking team

 Tea plantations

 A pretty nice photo

 The Malawi Squad

 Misty

Team photo

So once we were down from the mountain we traveled to Liwonde for our Safari were there was lots of hippo's, elephants and a river... full of crocodiles!

 HIPPO!

 A tree that david livingstone slept in

After our Safari we traveled to a school in Dzalanyama to work in the school doing painting and also with the kids

 The school for me was the most amazing and rewarding thing i have ever done and is defiantly something i intend on doing more of!

The whole trip overall was amazing and if anyone gets the chance to do anything like it i would say take it!

Until next time

Hannah Alice
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