Blantyre, MalawiWednesday, October 14, 2009
.Majete Wildlife ReserveHad to make a trip this week to Malawi, the country that borders Mozambique to the west, as we needed to apply for our three-month visas. Up until now, we have just had one month visas and had them extended for one more month here in Lichinga. Our family and Jesse and Tanya packed into “Freedom,” our 4X4 vehicle and headed about two hours south on mostly unpaved roads to the town of Mandima, then we headed to the Malawi border which is basically in Mandima and spent about an hour doing paperwork to bring our vehicle into Malawi and to have our passports stamped, then headed another three hours southwest to the city of Blantyre, Malawi, where we were only five minutes late to have our visas done that day.
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Knowing then that our two day journey had turned into a three day journey because of the hold up with getting our visas, we decided to head another hour south to the Majete Wildlife Reserve. We paid a very small amount of Kwacha (money in Malawi) for the seven of us to drive our vehicle into the reserve and look for animals. We were excited to be able to see monkeys, baboons, nyalas, elands, waterbucks, sables, zebras, hippos and other animals. We all had a blast observing the African animals in their natural habitat. The children especially had a great time, as they love animals.
Knowing then that our two day journey had turned into a three day journey because of the hold up with getting our visas, we decided to head another hour south to the Majete Wildlife Reserve. We paid a very small amount of Kwacha (money in Malawi) for the seven of us to drive our vehicle into the reserve and look for animals. We were excited to be able to see monkeys, baboons, nyalas, elands, waterbucks, sables, zebras, hippos and other animals. We all had a blast observing the African animals in their natural habitat. The children especially had a great time, as they love animals.
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Christian Young
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