Bolero

When we arrived in Bolero, in Rumphi district, we
found trees almost as large as the ones in Karonga.

Speaking of beginnings, the young man in this picture,
Herbert Jenya, is going to begin school in January at
the Forestry College in Mzuzu.
It will be quite a new beginning for him.

The trees in Bolero had a much heavier crop of
seeds still on the tree than anywhere we have been.

We found bicycle transport in Bolero, and in all the villages,
but in Bolero there is an older form of transport more favored
than bicycles. Check next week to see it.

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Back to Karonga....some trees there were very old,
like the grandfather tree here which is
losing limbs and struggling to hang on.

The favorite use for large Faidherbia trunks in Karonga
was for canoes on the lake.

One day we finished early, and went to the Tanzanian
border. This is the Songani river. We walked over
the bridge, walked around town for a few minutes
and looked around, and crossed back. No one
asked to see documents, even from me,
and I obviously wasn't from there!