the long awaited story of my fathers Arusha trip
Hi all
When we were in Chizarira ANBM mooted the idea of us going to the 13th Pan-African Ornithological Congress. By road !
He kept up the pressure and suddenly we were definitely going. With a fully packed vehicle, passports, GPS and some maps we left Harare at 04h00 one morning and entered Mocambique at Nyamapanda and by 09h30 we were in Tete on the Zambezi river.
We had crossed the border into Malawi at Dedza by about 14h30. This little town is named after Dedza Mountain which rises out of the plains.
Now most people heading north in Malawi would proceed to the capital, Lilongwe. Us ? No chance – east it was to be – to Lake Malawi ! It appears quite suddenly and is a delight to view its vastness. We followed the lake shore via Salima, Nkhotakota and Dangwa by which time it was quite dark. Eighteen kilometres…
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