2 March
Kande – Chitimba
144 Miles
Erik:
The drive was sweet! Those hills were
killer but the views are nice. We got stopped by the army and police
and were told to wait. Wait for what? The president to go by, of
course. After standing around for about 45 minutes her troupe rolled
by. Her very fancy car slowed down, she rolled down her window and
waved at the villagers (and us). A very big woman with a very bright
orange dress on. So now we've seen Malawi's president AND Namibia's
as well. Cool beans.
Going to Chitimba was a breathtaking
ride. Snakey roads on the side of mountains overlooking the lake.
This would've taken us at least a week on the bike. It was beautiful.
We stopped at a "100 year old"
bridge made entirely out of bamboo (the original one was built in
1905 and has been rebuilt on a regular basis ever since). The
villagers are super enthusiastic and self driven about it and are
trying very hard to get tourists to stop here and visit the bridge.
The man in charge had the whole village singing songs for us and
showed us their little "museum" of artifacts that his
"forefathers have been using for many, many years". Dave
and Ishi want to see if this place would be good for them to stop
with their passangers, so we did the whole spiel and walked over the
bridge. 50M long and scary wobbly. Haha! When Steph was walking back,
a drunk dude jumped on it and started bouncing. It was hilarious.
Then they sang us the history of their tribe, showed of lots of neat
stuff, prechristian. I hope they stay successful. More people like
that and this continent would be in a much better place.
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| Check it OUT!!!! |
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| Rickety old Bamboo bridge |
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| This guy was hilarious |
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| Beautiful mountains that we're not riding over :) |
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