July 29th

We finally managed to find some hotel rooms in Lilongwe but unfortunately, separate ones, no hotel has rooms. So we will take what we found until we get to Lilongwe.

The kids decided they don’t want to do any touring today. However, we needed to go out to book our Bus trip to Lilongwe. They have big buses like the Voyageur buses that go to Lilongwe a 5 drive from Blantyre for about $25 Canadian dollars, not a bad deal. So we left them under Ashley’s care.

We walked to the bus station and prebook our seats as you save money by prebooking. After that we just walked around the streets of Blantyre. Doris and Paul went back to the hotel so that the kids can swim. It was a bit cool but they swam anyways.

The bus leaves at 7am so tomorrow we have to get up extra early as the hotel shuttle will bring us to the bus depot at 6:15am. The kids truly hates the idea but there’s no choice. We need to get back to Lilongwe as that’s where we will depart Malawi from in just a few days.

July 28th

We decided to do last minute Johannesburg tour to the Lion Park as we haven’t yet seen any Lions in Africa. So after we checked out from our hotel, we decided to stop over for a 2 hour visit at the Lion Park to see Lions. The girls were happy and had a chance to finally pet some cubs. As it wasn’t feeding time, they couldn’t feed the cubs. Lions looked so lazy, apparently they had just been fed. So they will just spend next day just sleeping and lazing around.

We met up with Doris and Paul at the airport. The kids were finally happy to see their cousins. The flight to Malawi took about 2 hours and half. We got picked up by the hotel Shuttle service. We called a few hotels in Lilongwe to book our final 4 days but to our surprise, every hotel was booked solid. As we didn’t have a room we decided to stay in Blantyre another day.