Last night and for the rest of the week Serena and I are in the south of Malawi in the other big city, Blantyre. We arrived late to a small hotel that charged 6,000 per person, per night. Asif, our traveling companion, paid 6,000 for a room. We paid 12,000 for the exact same thing. Charging extra for extra bodies makes sense--more water, more electricity, more wear and tear, etc--but Malawi and its surrounding neighbors have an obsession with charging per person which completely fails to capture true costs.
This, however, shouldn't come as a surprise. I've seen many products sold individually at the same unit price as in bulk. It's a concept that hasn't quite caught on around here.
Police update: Lilongwe --> Blantyre = 300km. There were seven police roadblocks. Seven!!!! They are loathsome.
what do they do at these road blocks, i wonder? search your car? just make you stop for awhile to make it look like there's traffic? i think you maybe mentioned it in a previous post but i forget. enlighten us!
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