On march 28, we entered the sixth and smallest country of the Tour d’Afrique, Malawi. First we rode for a day and a half alongside the beautiful Lake Malawi on a level road, to arrive in Chitimba Beach for a rest day. It is a lovely place right on the lakeshore with no internet or mobilephone connection, being run by two couples from the Netherlands. Really the only thing to do there is taking it easy. This came in very handy for me, because my right foor started to swell as the result of an infected blister. The right medication and a lot of rest, was enough to be able to ride the bike on the ay after the rest.
During the next stages there was a lot of rain and many altitude-meters to do. It is not bad at all to do serious climbing in a rain shower when the temperature is 25 degrees!
After four days of biking through the Viphya Mountains, we arrived in Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi. Tomorrow we have another rest day, the day after that we’ll head for the border with Zambia.