{"id":258,"date":"2010-12-24T17:40:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T17:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2014-03-08T18:46:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T18:46:54","slug":"chitimba-beach-malawi-day-34-and-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/2010\/12\/chitimba-beach-malawi-day-34-and-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Chitimba Beach, Malawi – Day 34 and 35"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We enter into Malawi, the poorest country that we visit on this safari.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A large portion of the country is\u00a0covered by Lake Malawi\u00a0 which is located\u00a0almost at the end of the Great Rift Valley.\u00a0\u00a0 Our time in Malawi is\u00a0very chilled and relaxing with days\u00a0spent by\u00a0the lake taking in the scenery, the local culture and admiring the\u00a0wood carvings which are some of the best in Africa.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>However there are some serious things to be done while here.\u00a0\u00a0 Fancy dress shopping needs to be done for Xmas and there is no better way of shopping than pulling\u00a0into a local town, \u00a0parking the truck, \u00a0and getting your costumes delivered to you.\u00a0\u00a0 And the “quality” of clothing is outstanding.\u00a0\u00a0 Whoever donated these clothes to Malawi really needs to have a look at themselves and their taste in fashion!\u00a0\u00a0 The only people crazy enough to wear them are overlanders, you never see locals in such clothing.\u00a0\u00a0 Our\u00a0outfits will be revealed in due course,\u00a0\u00a0once we are\u00a0on the houseboats at Lake Kariba. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Our next mission is to practise our skills of negotiation at a local carving market.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Malawians specialise in wood carving and the most impressive is the Malawi chair.\u00a0 The ladies on the trip love this part of the day and after an hour and a half of shopping and negotiation bliss they are almost ready to leave.\u00a0 The only issue at the end of a Malawi carving shopping spree is finding where to store it all within \u2018Eeyore\u2019.<\/p>\n

Tip of the Day<\/em><\/strong>:\u00a0 You need to be a\u00a0fantastic negotiator to get\u00a0good deals on Malawi curios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We enter into Malawi, the poorest country that we visit on this safari.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A large portion of the country is\u00a0covered by Lake Malawi\u00a0 which is located\u00a0almost at the end of the Great Rift Valley.\u00a0\u00a0 Our time in Malawi is\u00a0very chilled and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[518,40,19,514,516,255,507,515,503,517,519],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14th-nov-2010-absolute-safari-on-shaggy-denis","tag-eeyore","tag-absolute-africa","tag-african-holiday","tag-chitimba-beach","tag-fancy-dress-shopping","tag-great-rift-valley","tag-lake-kariba","tag-lake-malawi","tag-malawi","tag-malawi-chair","tag-you-need-to-be-a-fantastic-negotiator-to-get-good-deals-on-malawi-curios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}