Yesterday (Sunday) I was really feeling in need of some exercise...and boy, did I get it. I went along with Kim (Porter, Bill's epi grad student and TA for the Malawian's class) and two of her roommates from her guest house (both med students in the UK) on a hike up Mt. Mchinji, one of the "three peaks of Blantyre." Unfortunately its not exactly Blantyre's backyard...so we started walking at 6am, for about an hour and a half through town...to the nature preserve...and then it was another two hours or so to the top...and then back down...and back to town...the long way...
Sian and I taking a break, trying to spot leopards...(no dice.)
The landscape here is hard to describe, hard to compare to anything I've seen really. On the mountain, its very rocky, with low scrubby grasses and groves of young fern-type trees.
Can you see the white dots far off? Yeah...thats town. I think we walked close to 20 miles yesterday! Thank goodness for Ibuprofen.
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