rural life outside KasunguAfter queuing for almost an hour outside National Bank, i am two people away from the ATM when the only machine announces it has run out of money. There is a Standard Bank opposite with two working ATMs and i head over to join yet another manic queue. The first machine packs up after half an hour, but one still seems to be going strong. It seems unfortunate that many Malawians still seem to be unfamiliar on how to use an ATM and some take almost 10 minutes staring quizzically at the screen. This time the final machine packs in with just three in front of me and i give up, taking my chances on there being a bank in Kasungu. I have less than USc75 in my pocket.
The bus departs at 10am with a preacher on board, who then conducts a Malawian church service in the aisles. Many of the passengers at the back join in with the hymns. By 12pm we pull up at at a gas station with an ATM opposite completely deserted. I have time to withdraw kwacha and buy sodas to rehydrate. We arrive into Kasungu by 12.40.
Outside Kasungu is something rather surreal that Lij Fire wants to show me. Outside this small clean town we walk towards the mountain for a few kilometres past some of the most basic Malawi subsistence villages before stumbling onto this.
Owned by Malawi ex- president Kamuzu Banda, he died in 1995. What is going on with the house now is not clear but security is real tight. The town has nothing to keep the travellist, but is nonetheless clean and ordered.
village laundry
swimming on the lake
cocky local lad
xima eating
yet another bunch of African kids wanting their photos taken
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