Mvuu Lodge

Here are some of the sights from our mini safari at Mvuu lodge (click on that to see the awesome lodge that we stayed in). In order to get to the lodge we had to take a 45 min boat ride through beautiful surroundings. The Shire River is home to the highest density of hippos in the world. They all peer up at you from the water and then subtily dissapear beneath the surface. I have lots of pictures with hippos, but they're hard to see unless the photos are big, so you'll have to wait on those. At night, we saw the hippos walking around everywhere. We had a great time and saw lots of awesome things. Here are just a couple of the things that we saw on our 3 safaris (walking, boating, and driving).

Waterbuck that we saw on our walking safari

The Shire River from our boat

Me on the boat safari with the elephants

Some kind of King Fishers (Dad that one is for you)

Impala - we saw so many of these you wouldn't believe it

The whole group on our driving safari

in the back - Kim, Sammie, and Katie

in the middle - Shant and me

in the front - Tom, Niamh, and Angela

Elephants! and there's a hippo in the water on the left if you have good eyes

Crocodile

Yellow baboons

On Monday it was back to the hospital. It's quite strange to go live in luxury as the rich westerner all weekend and then return to such poverty. It is quite the whirl-wind tour of Malawi with difficult sights and hard realities mixed in with unbelievable natural beauty.

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