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Blantyre Slideshow
Top Hotels in Blantyre
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The Namiwawa Blantyre
2 reviews -
Mount Soche Hotel Blantyre
9 reviews
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Protea Hotel Ryalls Blantyre
19 reviews
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Pedro's Lodge Blantyre
9 reviews
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Kara O'Mula Lodge Blantyre
8 reviews -
Hostellerie de France Blantyre
10 reviews
Blantyre
Travel Blogs from Blantyre, Malawi
Another crap Mozambique hotel
This is a top pick! ... by 9:30. Overall I have to say I'm extremely pleased I made this detour to Mozambique instead of heading straight for Malawi. The Portuguese influence, the Dhow rides, Ibo and Ilha de Mozambique have made this yet another mind-blowing experience. Again ...
The magic calculator
This is a top pick! ... by the means of transport people take, then Malawi would be very low down the list as the road to Blantyre teamed with walkers and cyclists. Malawi is actually one of the poorest countries in Africa and also one of the most populated per sq. mile. Malawi ...
Elephant Marsh
This is a top pick! Blantyre - Nchalo - Bangula - Makhanga - Mchacha James (Elephant Marsh) - ...
Skinny dipping at Mt Mulanje
This is a top pick! Blantyre - Mulanje - Chitakale - ? - Chitakale - ...
Moving On
This is a top pick! ... last couple hours of the journey, hiding the maize and highlighting the true shape of the land in Afro-blue. We arrived in Blantyre around 9 p.m., and I jotted down some contacts I'd made on the bus. It's a 100 meter walk from the bus station to the ...
Chitipa to Blantyre
This is a top pick! MALAWI Chitipa to Blantyre 21st January 2007 We were woken and pulled out of bed early on Sunday morning. The taxi driver (who I had helped get un-stuck the day before, halfway between Mbeya and Chitipa), made us get our shit together and ...
Malawi Summary
This is a top pick! Distance travelled so far - 10925km (equivalent of London to Singapore) In Malawi - 1260km Malawi Summary Useful Chichewa Hello - moni How are you? - muli bwanji? Fine - ndiri bwino Thank you - zikomo Yes - inde No - ai Goodbye - ...
Free Mugging Wth Every Order of Chicken and Chips
This is a top pick! Here's a funny story about getting mugged. Well, almost mugged. I was staying in Blantyre, Malawi at a backpackers called Doogles. It is set out by the bus station, and you read in guide books, and are told by everyone, that the area is not safe at ...
Mulanje Massif
... How fortunate we are to enjoy such beauty on such a beautiful continent. From here the team pushes on to Tanzania, along lake Malawi. Attempts to take the Mozambique route were abandoned as it was not possible to get news on the ferry needed to cross the ...
Visitors
... The next morning I took them into Blantyre to show them around. I haven't wrote too much about Blantyre so i'll explain a little. It is Malawi's oldest city, generally regarded as the most important commercial centre in the country with a compact ...
Over due update from Bats
... for our visit. On the drive back we stopped at roadside sellers to get mushrooms which you don’t see for sale often in Blantyre. When we stopped the car the traders came from nowhere and swarmed the car pushing various fruit and veg through the car ...
New year, new term, new class, new kids!
Being a teacher, the above title is usually what September brings. However this September is a little different as i'm out here in Malawi and not everything has gone to plan. The children centre i've been training my students to work in was due to open ...
Life at Mitsidi
... of Krizevac and then his counterpart is Peter, who is the managing director of Beehive. Most compounds are walled and have guards in Malawi. Our site has several guards who work 12 hour shifts. When we drive up to the gate the guards are expected to be ...
The rains begin and our first courses finish
I sat on my porch happily watching a storm develop last Saturday. It was pretty impressive compared to the storms we get at home, you know, all fork lightning and booming thunder. Well I hadn't seen anything until today. This morning began a bit grey- ...
Seeing Livelihood Development Projects in Blantyre
... relating to how the projects were going and hear his recommendations. We spent a very profitable and enjoyable three hours with him before sending him home by taxi. A very good first full day in Blantyre, Malawi. ...
The value of education in Malawi
... statements would be in a similar class in the UK. There seemed to be a real sense of patron-ism and responsibility to Malawi as a whole. Education is seen as a key way of helping the country to develop. Self-reliance was another interesting concept. They ...
I'm still alive!
... doubled (not so fun on a mat in the back of a truck on a very hot day). The festival was really good and I swam in Lake Malawi. The setting was so lovely and the music was good as well as the company. However, the hotel we stayed in was amazing (in a bad ...
Friday night at the New Liquor Garden
... work in the immigration office, who regularly offer me Malawian citizenship, an events and conference manager from a big hotel in Blantyre, an accountant, a lawyer, several police officers... the list of professionals goes on. By the time I take a seat, ...
Beginning to do what i'm here to do...
The first week at work began with me waking at 6am on the Monday and doing a 30 minute meditation. Meditation is the one constant thing I'm aiming to keep from home (except, obviously, drinking and enjoying myself at weekends)! The place where I'm ...
Food shopping- a luxury as most grown their own!
... pondering about them. It usually goes something like, 'if only... but then... oh!?!' Sometimes they're a welcome reminder that i'm in Malawi and not England. Other times they're tedious, snippets of soul consumption that I could do without. But with my ...
Swimming, hospital, sulking
... has been so kind and helpful and things are a lot better today. So I think the news is out now – I’m staying in Malawi over Christmas and returning to England on 23rd Jan to go back to York Childcare on 30th Jan. It was a big decision but ...
Opening A CHILDREN'S CENTRE
Inductions The students are being paid to work in the centre from 4th Jan so for the first week we started their induction program. There were 68 students who were offered positions in the children's centre and 64 turned up for their induction. It was ...
A short-long summary of Zambia
... I think the boys loved it, especially when they got rewarded with the soccer ball once the game was over. Day 13 - Husted's into Malawi We reached Chipata at about lunch time on the 8th and the Dups's said goodbye to the Husted's who needed to get to ...
Interesting practice put to the test in Malawi
... and negotiating skills with their fellow group members. The idea is that the group score is better than the individual score. Well, in Malawi, this is not the case. In both groups the mean average for the individual was better than the group mean average. ...
New Year, but really I mean last year into this ye
... . This was kind of where my New Years Eve celebrations began. On New Year itself, we went to a local club in Blantyre called Chez Ntemba. I love Chez as I think it has real character, however this character was frightfully scary at midnight as fireworks ...
Blantyre
... the way I managed to buy another carved table (oops!) but it was a bargain at $15. In Blantyre I sent all the tables home which should take 2 months. I also went to visit Blantyre cathedral. It rained most of our day here. We then headed on to ...