Mozambique & Lake Malawi:Lichinga to Metangula Part 2.

I was at the truck depot at 6.30am, because that was when I had been told I would get a place on the truck going to Metangula. It was an early morning start, but mustering the other fifteen passengers took hours. During which time the semi-loaded truck went sporadically around town making as much noise as possible to attract passengers, with wild beeping of the horn, and the conductor calling out in a rhythmic chime: metangula-metangula-metangula-metangula. Bumping over potholes, whizzing round corners, and the continual honking of the horn made for an interesting early morning experience, not to mention the skid-to-halt stops when someone wanted to get on.