On the last day of mission, we left Blantyre at 4:30 to reach Lilongwe by 9:00 for our flight to Nairobi (via Lusaka). It was a nice trip, though the weather was miserable, and I was able to take some pictures. In fact, I took nearly 100, expecting that they'd all be blurry, but a few turned out.
The approach to a village.
Malawi is richer, as I've said before, than other places. Here you can see a mud house and a brick house in a village. This is not something that you might have seen in Niger.
The road follows the border with Mozambique for a while. This ruin is all that's left of a casino that catered to Malawians back in the days of colonization in Mozambique (until 1975, I think).
More pictures of Mozambique:
Some of the mountains on the side of road were capped by the low-hanging clouds.
a lush hillside.
The road goes through various market towns. In one of these pictures, you can see ox carts that people use to ferry goods to the markets (in addition to bicycles).
at one point, it got sunny...
An ox cart in action on the side of the road.
The road, doing its' best American West impersonnation.
Approaching Lilongwe, rock formations galore.
Trees climbing up over the hillside.
The aircraft (only one at a time, apparently) is waiting for you, maybe.
Malawi from the air. Notice the closely packed villages with the fields around them. 
Kenya from the air, notice that the layout of farms is radically different, with farms at the center of their individual plots (big rectangular boxes). Also, it's the dry season...
The approach to a village.
Malawi is richer, as I've said before, than other places. Here you can see a mud house and a brick house in a village. This is not something that you might have seen in Niger.
The road follows the border with Mozambique for a while. This ruin is all that's left of a casino that catered to Malawians back in the days of colonization in Mozambique (until 1975, I think).
More pictures of Mozambique:
Some of the mountains on the side of road were capped by the low-hanging clouds.
a lush hillside.
The road goes through various market towns. In one of these pictures, you can see ox carts that people use to ferry goods to the markets (in addition to bicycles).
at one point, it got sunny...
An ox cart in action on the side of the road.
The road, doing its' best American West impersonnation.
Approaching Lilongwe, rock formations galore.
Trees climbing up over the hillside.
The aircraft (only one at a time, apparently) is waiting for you, maybe.
Malawi from the air. Notice the closely packed villages with the fields around them. 
Kenya from the air, notice that the layout of farms is radically different, with farms at the center of their individual plots (big rectangular boxes). Also, it's the dry season...
