Mzuzu

A zoo in Africa by Richard

Mzoozoozoo in Mzuzu, Malawi is a tourist lodge as well as a madhouse. In the residential center of Mzuzu; Gerard has been managing and entertaining travelers for the past 14 years. Campers, backpackers and crazy souls as well as locals stay here or just drop in for a “green” (Carlsberg beer), and listening to jazz and rock’n roll screaming from the speakers. In the restaurant and bar you find Ray a true survivor of the 60:s he is, a genuine hippie who trawled over all Africa on his Honda Gold Wing for the last three decades.

In this zoo you find basically tree animals: the guitar playing Gerard, the owner and “baba cool”. Ray, the Hippie and Jimbo, the gunigugu-man from out of space.

At Mzoozoozoo you can checkout but you can never leave…

I went to Africa to meet a friend by Richard

I went to Africa to meet a friend and to take a picture. I expected a clean, neat little house with an old man, but I found the same crazy dude I left 30 years ago in Switzerland. Still the same generous and funny guy, Gerard has moved on to the next level and runs an insane asylum in Malawi today (officially, it is a lodge for backpackers).