First impressions of Mazabuka:
- Things never quite go to plan meaning that our accommodation is not ready yet so we are staying in a local guest house for the time being – a nice place with friendly staff but want to get settled here sometime soon
- Not quite a quiet town in the middle of nowhere as Maz has two supermarkets and a couple of cafes/restaurants which is definitely something to crow about! Finding a working internet cafe is proving to be much harder
- Wide tree lined streets and small enough that you will see the same people again and again during the course of a day
- If you are not walking then 4x4s are everywhere as the main roads are fine but everything else is bumpy with rutted earth crumbling away, which gets worse the harder it rains
- Lights out around 7pm as away from the main high street it is pitch black after dark
- Agriculture dominates here with fields and fields of sugar cane and maize. This is great for the local economy but also a good breeding ground for mosquitos and malaria, and the buggers have started biting away at me already
- Like other parts of Africa that I have visited the men are football crazy – Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United dominate with strangely no Watford fans!
- The importance of religion with churches everywhere.
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