MVUU camp

The day after my birthday, not quite recovered from the party (it was great, in my house, loads of people came!) we went to Liwonde national park. That place is like a postcard from Africa. The river Shire crosses it giving shelter to thousands of hippos and crocodiles and hundreds of elephants. There are also any kind of african deer, boars, birds... (sorry, I still haven't learnt their names, they are all called different here!) We had reserved a couple of tents in the Mvuu camp, by the river, and we did a boat safari and a land safari.

Mvuu means hippo in the local language, probably they gave it that name because hippos visit the camp (I have seen the pictures) although they didn't come that night. In the first evening we did the boat safari. It was absolutely magic, we spotted 3 baby hippos, a group of elephants and a few crocodiles.. the sunset covered us in orange light.. I couldn't stop shooting with my camera.

The next day we went into the rhino sanctuary This is the only part of the park with rhinos, they were totally extinted in Malawi and now they try to breed them in a separated area. We couldn't see the rhinos.. Shame, we'll have to come back ;-)