Fortunately, our guide MacCloud had a well worn bird book. After the 5 hour drive to the MVUU camp in the nature preserve (driving past nkhoma mountain and lots of other hills and mountains, it was the most scenic thing I have seen here, Lilongwe the town and the surrounding villages are singularly unattractive. After lunch at the resort safari place, we went driving around in a jeep looking for animals. It is quite dry, even though we are on a river. We saw some antelope, hippos, crocodiles, warthog, a cool colored stork, then we sat by the river and I drew for 15 minutes then it was dark, and we drove around some more shining a big flashlight on hippos. I saw a hare, though and a cool cat like creature with a long tail with rings on it.
Three of us took the early morning walk the next day (instead of the drive around in the jeep). It was great to walk on the dry earth and hear the sounds of the birds. We had to take the guide and another fellow with a very big gun. Then we floated around on the boats looking for elephants.
The best part of mvuu camp were the elaborate mosquito nets, over the large bed, with screens for windows. these were the glamping cabins with stone masonry in the bathrooms buffet dinners. At night I could hear the frogs and the in the morning the hippos made loud wheezy grunting noises, very deep. 
some mountains on the way back to Lilonwe that I wanted to climb, but the only time we got out of the bus was to cross the border into Mozambique so everyone could say they had set foot there. 
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