Update from our Malawi expedition volunteering with elephants, hippo, lion and African biodiversity
Us staffers (see picture) got together in Lilongwe to load up supplies for a month and trying to leave enough room for the five of us! All went well until four hours into the journey to Vwaza master chef Luka announced that we needed another half-tonne of fresh veg….
Market
So off we went to the market, buying more supplies. I am not sure how we got everything into the cars, but we did.
Arrival at Vwaza
We arrived at our home for the next five weeks just before dark. There have been some great improvements to the camp: Power and lighting have been upgraded with additional solar installation.
Camp is not used year round, so we have been setting up, testing equipment, checking tents and doing all the other things needed to get ready.
But the main reason we’re here is of course the wildlife. As if on cue, our resident matriarch elephant, “Kevin” put in her first appearance along with her calves.
See you soon, group 1.
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Author: Simon Thomsett
Simon Thomsett MBE was born in the UK but now lives in the Austrian Alps. He served in the British Army for 36 years, working across the globe including two years in the jungles of Brunei, as well as Africa, North and South America and South Asia. He has run diving expeditions in the Indian Ocean, Caribbean and the Mediterranean Seas. A keen ski mountaineer, he now lives and works in Austria where he runs a ski business with his wife Claire. Simon is a qualified BSAC dive instructor, a ski instructor, international mountain leader and Emergency First Response first aider.