Jinji Sadan

Roei Jinji Sadan with his bike Emona cycling around the world

Posts Tagged ‘Malawi’

White man in africa – Azungu!

Fri ,11/09/2009

I was very happy to recover from my physical stress in the big city Blantyre in Malawi, after crossing Mozambique I was happy to be in a place that some people most of the people know English and I can communicate better with the people, I ate wll and  just tryed to rest , a thing that I am not really good at it. You can see that the people are very friendly and nice (some times too much – they can wake you up in 5 a.m. just to ask if everything is ok…). The Malawian people are proud to say that Malawi is “real” Africa. I am surprise to see men drinking milk in the middle of the day and every where but I understood that this how they drink the local beer… in cartons and it in the same color like milk…

 I was happy to know that there is food on the road and vendors are selling everything that you can put inside from everything that you can find inside the cow and the goat to small birds in deep fried… lake worms that its look like (more…)

The color to stop – a day in the worst hospital

Thu ,03/09/2009

The last days in Mozambique were something to write about, after the recover from the malaria I need to start to cycle again, I was in 100% shape but my visa about to finish and its 100$ a day if I am in the country with expiry visa….I had a sharp pain in my lower back but when I cycled it wasn’t so bad. The view and the faces helped me forgot the pain I was happy to have some hills and to see different landscapes after the monotony of the flats near the coast. The evenings I spent with the locals with my tent next to their straw house or mud houses9when they have more money…) they always offer me to join them for the most important meal in the day dinner, it’s the most important because it the only one and I don’t want to take from there small amount of food so I take a little and after that I cooked to myself some pasta with sardines, I am eating the same amount that the whole family is eating…

 The nights was hard the pain was strong and I could not sleep well, (more…)