Friday 12th August

It was another early morning, fuelled by eggy bread (our last ever meal of the trip cooked by Mumma Bear), to say goodbye to Prince Harry and leave Mvuu. We loaded all our kit and ourselves onto a small wooden boat and then travelled across the River Shire to find Tilly. We travelled three hours to Zomba. When we went through the more rural area, we threw empty water bottles and sweets to the children as they were all shouting 'bottle' at us. Our driver told us that they needed the plastic bottles to take water to school. Our journey was made even longer, as we were stopped three times by police at checkpoints!
When we arrived at Zomba, we went to the market where we spent the last of our Kwacha on paintings, bracelets and wooden carvings. After we had bought all we wanted, we went to a restaurant to have lunch.
We bumped into Sue whilst we were there and she was going to take us to a nearby dam. Unfortunately, Tilly was too big for the road so we just enjoyed the view of Zomba and the landscape from a road on the side of a mountain.
We then ventured back into the market where we bought even more fabric and then headed to Pakachere (a backpackers hostel) where we settled in and stuffed our bags with all our belongings.
For dinner, we had a Malawian dish of rice, chicken curry, maize and vegetables. We then ended our final day with a quiz night.
By Liv and Alice X