Thanks guys, always good to get feedback and know people are still interested in coming along virtually on the travels. Also helps to keep the photos per page count down which speeds the page load times.
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Originally Posted by blind squirrel
Not sure what happened there but there are none.
That was a cut & paste of text from a recent FB post I made, will post the photos when I catch up to that point.
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Originally Posted by golddog
How do you discern what's "safe" (for USA person) to eat/drink? I remember you mentioning look at the seal on the bottled water, but what about food?
Just find stuff to try, and roll with it if you get ill? Had much in the way of problems due to food/drink issues?
I pretty much just eat/drink whatever thanks to current Typhoid/Hep vaccines, but it depends on where I am. I should absolutely get the cholera vaccine (and may do so when I go to Blantyre in a couple of days) since I've been spending lots of time recently in cholera outbreak areas. Have been using a lot of hand sanitizer lately. It's even worse because shaking hands is very important in lots of African cultures and it's rude not to accept someone's hand, so the hand sanitizer gets used up pretty fast.
For drinks I usually stick to something that is factory sealed like water bottles / sodas, or something that was recently boiled, like water for tea. For food I eat whatever, as long as it's cooked or the source seems like it's halfway decent. Ate a bunch of salads this week because I trust the place I'm at (Monkey Bay, Malawi), would never have done so in Lusaka. Haven't had any food/drink issues other than the standard initial water adjustments once or twice.
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Originally Posted by jalfrezi
Wiki has SPAR as a Dutch chain originally and are pretty much everywhere now.
42 countries per wiki!
And speaking of Dutch things, I learned today how to say the Dutch equivalent of "see you later, alligator" - it's "ajuu paraplu" which translates to "later, umbrella!" <3 <3 <3 Busted that one out on some Dutchies who left here today and they absolutely loved it.
Doubt I'll have another update for a while. Leaving Monkey Bay tomorrow, heading down to Liwonde for a river safari thing. A couple of days there, then south to Blantyre, which is the biggest city in Malawi. A week there for the last taste of civilization for a while, and then into Mozambique.
The Mozambique & onward plan is pretty fluid right now. I'll head to the coast and spend some time at Mozambique Island, Nacala, and Pemba on the northern coast for some diving. After that it gets fuzzy. If I can find a boat to Madagascar and/or Comoros, I'll get on it. Unlikely to find a sailboat since it's cyclone season, and unfortunately the container ships mostly only go to those places when inbound to Moz, and skip them on the outbound route. So it seems unlikely.
More likely is that I'll just continue north up the coast into the wild country, hopefully check out Quirimbas Archipelago, then cross into Tanzania and make my way up to Dar es Salaam.
If I can get to Comoros either from Moz or Mad via boat (looks like maaaaaybe there's a ferry from Majunga in Moz to Moroni in Comoros) then I'll try to take another maaaaaybe existent ferry from Moroni up to Dar if the scheduling works out. We'll see.
The week in Blantyre is going to also be used to try and figure that stuff out.