Malawi Travel Blogs

A Great Lake
Mar 27, 2006 (15 photos)

... is the most densly populated part of Afrika. All of east Afrika is slowly sliding into the Indian Ocean. Someday, Lake Malawi will contain salt water. I quickly found Josie Redmonds and Chris Ashton at Kupenja. I'd been in contact with Josie via email ...

Takin' It Easy
Mar 18, 2006 (5 photos)

Friday night I had the house to myself when Kristoff went to pick up Stacia after her trip south. They returned home with their Peace Corps fiend, Brooke, at 2 a.m., well tipsy. I had gone to bed a bit before that, but got up to say hello. Luckily, ...

Tracking Down Other Permaculture Teachers
Mar 16, 2006

... fetch some kwacha. This was pretty easy, as was finding breakfast and a phone. The phone shops are literally everywhere in Malawi. My breakfast was half a fresh coconut (shelled for me), a muffin, two donuts and some fried potatoes with chopped salad on ...

The magic calculator
Apr 3, 2006

... walkers and cyclists. Malawi is actually one of the poorest countries in Africa and also one of the most populated per sq. mile. Malawi had about the same population as Mozambique, but if you check their size difference on a map Malawi is about a tenth the ...

Day 2 - Black ice scramble up Sapitwa
Apr 6, 2006 (5 photos)

... 8,000 feet up above the valley floor and the plains I had climbed up from the previous day. It was also the highest point in Malawi. We could actually see all the way out to Lake Malawi that must have been over 100 miles away. There were a lot of ...

Fighting for the muzungu
Apr 4, 2006 (1 photos)

... up. The porter he picked for me was Jeffrey. I booked into the CCAP mission ( this is a big Christian organization in Malawi) where I had a peaceful afternoon listening to all the hymns been sung as only African know how. Later I went for a dip in ...

The crazy Christian
Apr 12, 2006

... , but the locals handled the situation very well. As we got closer to Lilongwe we started to climb up to a plateau, Lilongwe is Malawi's capital but I have to say it's not a very appealing city at all. It's very spread out with no real centre and like ...

Day 3 - A lecture for the porter and guide
Apr 7, 2006 (3 photos)

... contained paneer! Chinese was Rolland's idea and he told us when we were there that this was his first ever Chinese meal. Fancy picking Malawi to try your first Chinese! A few more G+Ts and then back to Doogles to finish the night with yet more G+T. I ...

A Night in Karonga
Apr 3, 2006

I slept three hours Sunday morning and woke to catch the bus out of Nkhata Bay. I didn't say goodbye to anyone except the staff at Kupenja. Please forgive me, y'all. I took a mini-bus first to Mzuzu, got some cash out of the ATM, and got on another bus ...

Baiting Jerry the Fish Eagle!
Apr 11, 2006 (10 photos)

After taking 3 weeks to read 30 pages of A Short History of Africa and decided history books weren't really my cup of tea. Started the mammoth autobiography of Nelson Mandela - A Long Walk to Freedom. Spent the morning reading this book. Much more ...

Not much happening in Malawi
Oct 18, 2006 (1 photos)

... Kenya and South Africa. So tomorrow we are off to Zambia! She Said: We reluctantly left the amazingly beautiful Seychelles for Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world. I tried to finagle our airline tickets so we could spend a few more ...

Elephant Marsh
Aug 9, 2005 (11 photos)

Blantyre - Nchalo - Bangula - Makhanga - Mchacha James (Elephant Marsh) - Makhanga

Bored in Blantyre
Aug 11, 2005

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Chilling by Lake Malawi
Aug 4, 2005 (2 photos)

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Skinny dipping at Mt Mulanje
Aug 13, 2005 (12 photos)

Blantyre - Mulanje - Chitakale - ? - Chitakale - Blantyre

Heading North through Africa
Feb 8, 2005

... across to Malawi. Everything about Malawi screamed AFRICA!!!! Whereas places in South Africa could have been any first world country, Malawi was definately a 3rd world one. I could see mud huts with mis-matched straw roofs, i could feel the heat of ...

Beach bums and ear drums
Oct 9, 2006 (2 photos)

... bank account for the corrupt president) but Susy nearly choked on her Toblerone when she was told that the letter from the Malawi High Commission back home wasn't good enough so she had to pay $60 and visit another immigration office in the main town the ...

Back to Blantyre
Aug 10, 2005

Makhanga - Bangula - Nchalo - Blantyre

How long do the buses take here?!
Aug 7, 2005

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Surviving Nkhata Bay
Apr 2, 2006 (9 photos)

... , store and preserve food. My last night in Nkhata Bay, there was a birthday party for an ex-pat who now runs two lodges in Malawi. It was great fun and the first live band I've heard in a long time - The Souls of the Ghetto. The were great. Lots of ...

To Lake Malawi!
Aug 3, 2005 (4 photos)

Mzuzu - Nkhata Bay

Long drive to Lilongwe
Aug 6, 2005

Nkhata Bay - Lilongwe

Awesome Fiesta Mates...
Jan 8, 2008

Just arrived at Kande Beach on Lake Malawi, one of the largest lakes in the world and did a major splurge (12 USD) and upgraded to a lake front cabin with my roomie Fotoula for the two nights that we are here!  As our tour leader would say "Awesome ...

Sweet Summer Rain
Oct 21, 2005 (4 photos)

... ecologist, he's carried it with him for some time. Now placed as a WUSC volunteer with the Catholic Development Commission of Malawi (CADECOM) in Dedza, he's been able, in just two short weeks, to begin spreading his proposal to over 25 village groups. ...

Malawi
Apr 12, 2006 (11 photos)

... relaxing afternoon at the pool overlooking the lake enjoying some drinks, catching up on our journal, and unwinding. Our last day in Malawi was spent driving towards Tanzania. It was a long day in the truck, but the people in our group passed the ...

At the House of Nordin
Mar 17, 2006 (20 photos)

... like tourists in Jamaica, they went back to the States, got married, and went for another round of Peace Corps duty together in Malawi. Their initial mission was to educate about HIV and AIDS, but it was the mid-1990's, and the Afrikans took it as any ...

A dose of Bilharzia
Apr 8, 2006 (3 photos)

Took advantage of Doogle's full monty breakfast again this morning before we all head off to Cape Maclear on Lake Malawi. This is one of the first times I've traveled with other people for long distances on public transport and it was great to have help ...

A Cry for Help
Oct 17, 2005 (3 photos)

... the famine of 2002 with a somber shake of her head. At that time people in Nkhoma, a tiny community in central Malawi, were collapsing and dying, sometimes on her own doorstep. More than 3 million people needed immediate food. Just three years later ...

Day 1 - Drunken porter or sick grandma
Apr 5, 2006 (10 photos)

We'd arranged to get a 6am start to avoid the heat for what was going to be a steep climb. By 6:30 neither the porter or the guide had arrived so I walked down to the village to find them. Beste said that Jeffrey had probably been out on the piss the ...

Moving On
Mar 15, 2006

... were searched for the first time, barely. Mozambique looked like a rough place. I'm glad I didn't stop in. Southern Malawi looked similar to much of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The granite boulders and huge mountains dotted the landscape, and the baobab ...