Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Out and about

We've been in the city of Blantyre for most of the past six-and-a-half weeks, but over the weekend, we went for two hikes (walks uphill) in the area.  It's a pretty place in it's way, plains with dramatic hills and even mountains sticking up at random, with varying cover, from forests to scrub.  

 Tea Plantations

 The valley overlooking Blantyre
from a path with stations of the cross

 "This interest in cars was a male problem, she thought.  One saw it develop in small boys, with the little wire models they made of cars, and it never really went away."  -Mma Ramotswe of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Morality for Beautiful Girls

Mt. Mulanje, a beautiful massif that Tom wants to 
climb in one day and I want to climb in three days

The 60 meter! deep Dziwe la Nkhalamba,
 'Old People's Pool' partway up Mulanje

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very cute you two! And nice scenery to boot.

abby said...

Oh, this is Abby, by the way.

Karen Sue said...

I've seen those mountains before, but I didn't get to climb them! I hope you do. (Mark wanted to go to Mt. Mulange to propose.)