Gecko lounge……

January 27, 2007

We made the journey up from Blantyre on Friday and were at Lake Nyasa in 3 or 4 hours or so - Paul drove and knows the straight road like the back of his hand - had it been me perhaps we would still be driving - although the road isn’t as bad as I remember it used to be 6 years ago, the rainy season brings flash floods that wash away entire sections of the tarmac in places - the water can rush through with enough strength to create metre deep pits in the road surfaces - never the less, with the king at the wheel it seemed like we were there in no time at all - just one or two sections where it all went a bit ski-Sunday and it seems like you are slaloming round the plot-holes - the drunk drivers drive straight as they say....

Upon arrival I was blown away to see the lake again - easily the most beautiful sight seen upon this earth by my eyes.

That first night we took it easy and I saw Anton (who runs the place for Paul who owns it - he’s got Narcolepsy and falls asleep everywhere but otherwise is sharp as daggers) for the first time in 6 years and met the other guys running the show - Levi and Rodney - good people who Paul knows and trusts for years.

Gecko Lounge

Central bar area and Veranda overlooking the lake to the left as you walk in - the right handside has a block for toilets and then and L shaped block that has two rooms with kitchen in-between (restaurant on site) - behind this there are two chalets that sleep up to 5 people each - dead centre there is the garden and beach front.

Gecko brewing up at dusk

side view bar

shoreline front view

veranda

tables

speedboat gecko

room middle corridor where the two rooms and kitchen are

two chalets all the way over to the right