oddities

malawi is definitely one of the world's poorest nations, so there are many simple activities that must be carried out in rather difficult ways. there are the gravel makers sitting on the side of the side of the road pounding rocks with other rocks, the men riding bicycles carrying a load that we would put on a truck, and of course women carrying babies on their backs, bags in their hands and enormous loads on their heads. with as sad as some of realities are, some are also not without their element of humor...

the mouse trap
egg salesman
lumber transport
down a mountain