Goodbye Malawi, gonna miss you.....

So after a really enjoyable time at Kande beach, with no worries other than trying to source a new shock for my bike, we decided to push on. Heading south just seems like the right thing to do when you are on a trip southbound. The option was to either stay at Lilongwe (the capital), so we could push on as far as possible so we could push on as far into Zambia as possible, or stay on the beach for one more night of Malawi madness.

Well i guess you could imagine what we chose..........Cool Runnings is a campsite in Senga Bay. Very very nice food (i had the fish, mmmmmmmm), nice vibe about it and a great owner. The name may ring a bell as the same owner opened up a pub with the same name in Cape Town, i loved that place actually, really chilled. We met another biker there, Desmond, great guy travelling around southern Africa for 6 months to start a new chapter in his life, so many people do overlanding for the same reason i guess. Anyway, it seems that cold weather is following us, as not long after we laid our heads to rest, a storm started, something that Malawi had not seen for a long while.

Early the next morning, well early enough, we pushed off on what would turn out to be quite a long day. We passed through Lilongwe to pick up some supplies at Shoprite, a shop well know to South Africans, and headed for the border.........

The beach at Cool Runnings seemed to be much more crowded

Camping at Cool Runnings, from left to right: Desmonds bike, Delilahs bike and my bike