Travelled for approx 8 hours from Liwonde Safari Camp to Mtunthama with a stop at Church and the Mua Mission.
Breakfast at Liwonde Safari Camp: Toast with honey and Tea.
Depart: 730am to drive to Mua Mission
Father Claude Boucher is 70 something year old artist who visited the Mua Mission and then stayed his whole life. He trains others in the skills of wood carving and displays them in his gallery and sells them in his shop. The walls are covered in murals narrating African history. The buildings are surrounded by beautiful tropical gardens.
Purchases: a long wooden mask in a light wood.
The Church next door was very busy and everyone was wearing their best clothes ready for communion and the Corpus Christy parade. Inside it seems that all the children sat together and the adults separately. Girls and boys also looked as though they were sitting separately. There was also a deaf school nearby as there were people signing to each other. We also saw one albino child who was tightly wrapped and covered in clothes.
We travelled through Selima, leaving the Lake behind us and skirted around the busy capital city Lilongwe.
Lunch in a small village: bread roll and peanut butter, crisp and chargrilled maize from a roadside trader.
Arrived at 330pm had tea and biscuits on the veranda. Played cards and repacked suitcase in the garden.
Dinner at St Peter's House: Fish chomba and chips.
Visited by Nelson, Reece and Amidu. Nelson had to leave to drive a mother in labour from Mtunthama to Kasungu for an emergency C Section. She had a baby girl. We nicknamed Nelson, Saint Nelson as he does so many lovely things for the community and is such a gentle giant; he drives the ambulance, he is chairman for the local orphanage and visits it everyday to help with breakfast.