Relaxing in Senga Bay

posted 1st September, 2008 category Africa

Lake Malawi was almost completely calm on our first day at Senga Bay. It was just Bhav and I since Craig had headed north. We’d arrived at Murandy Lodge in the dark the night before having used up quite a lot of our luck. Our room was in the main bungalow with the veranda where they served meals just outside. From the veranda you could look down the garden to the lake. On closer inspection there was maybe 10m of sandy beach in between.

Not having had my lazy Sunday by the pool in Lilongwe I was keen to have a relaxing day. For lunch we ventured about 45 mins up the beach to a place called Carolina Lake Resort. There were very few tourists about.

We were running a bit short on cash so decided to take a minivan into town to go to an ATM. We can tick another means of transport off the list; bicycle, at least we sat on the back whilst someone else peddled.

It was dark by the time we got back and to make matters worse it was during the near daily power cut. We decided to go back to Carolina’s for dinner since Andrew, the owner had been so nice to us and had given us a lift part of the way to town earlier that day despite the fuel shortage. We were in need of some local knowledge (since we didn’t have Craig’s Lonely Planet) and some company so we invited Wendy, the owner of the Murandy Lodge along.

Wendy is a white Zimbabwean and has experienced first hand the problems of both her home and adopted countries. Lately she’s been suffereing from some staff problems, something a lot of the local bosses we talked to seemed to have.

Local artist in Senga Bay, Malawi