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Likoma Island Slideshow
Likoma Island
Travel Blogs from Likoma Island, Malawi
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Likoma Island and Blantyre
This is a top pick! ... week to travel up and down the length of the lake. On the Ilala was another westerner, Jack a freelance travel journalist, going to Likoma Island too...so we chatted for most of the journey..he was going to Kaya Mawa the expensive place and me to Mango ...
On the Ilala
This is a top pick! ... greet friends and relatives, but most are probably there because it is the most interesting thing that happens during the week. Likoma Island and its companion, which is too difficult to spell, are specks of paradise in the middle of the ...
African sunsets and mango juice
... into wave after wave and with that each face turned increasingly green... relax! ...and with what we are expecting when we leave Likoma island to move into Mozambique, we need to take advantage of any relaxation time because it may be a little while until ...
Too much time to think
... sweet that I can get to do this. The people here unfortunately were not born with the same opportunities. Tomorrow I am off to Likoma Island. My new friend Peter will most likely be sanding the same deck. I think I mentioned this before but when you ...
Off to the Islands
... it out on the nice local people. I was an asshole muzingu (at least to one person) for a night. The ferry arrived in Chizumulu Island at 1 am. It actually stopped about 500 yards from the island because of the low tide so a small boat came to get us. ...
Benefits of stretching exercises
... to that difficult area between the shoulder blades. I met a pilot the previous night who was staying at my guesthouse. He flew into Likoma Island and had to stay the night. When he said goodbye this morning, I told him to fly by the guesthouse and ...
A man with no place to go
I decided to stay in Nhkata Bay for the day just so I could catch up on my travel blog. I spent 6 hours typing. It was like being at work again. At night, I had dinner with the Italian couple. I met some of their friends. I was glad I met them as their ...
Another disease to worry about
... lake for about $12 a night. Erica, Emma and myself are the only travellers here so it's nice to feel like we have a whole island to ourselves. It's very quiet and relaxing.It was a nice change of pace as Nhkata Bay had its fair share of backpackers by the ...
Senga 3/3
Senga bay has been great fun. Two friends, both called George, from Mabuya in Lilongwe are now doing some volunteering in the communities there and we stayed at the same place. Then someone else from Mabuya turned up for a holiday and THEN two other ...
Chicken Sh&t
... I know I would be a bit of a chicken shit (aka afraid) about getting malaria. Both Erica and I weren't that impressed with Likoma Island.We were glad that we didn't leave Chizumulu earlier. Once we found our guesthouse, we hiked away from the beach and ...
Likoma 2/3
I think want to live here now!! Likoma is such a picturesque island and the hut I'm staying in is literally on the beach under some palm trees with a hammock slung up nearby. Brilliant. Not a huge amount happening on Likoma, I went to visit the largest ...
The Blissful Island of Likoma
... enjoying a leisurely morning at Nkwichi, we bid fairwell to our pampered lodgings and boarded a speedboat to nearby Likoma Island - part of Malawi but only 10 kilometres offshore from Mozambique - via the tiny village of Cóbuč. We ...
Likoma Island
... time to get psyched for the match. I have no idea what they were saying but I enjoyed the entertainment. I spent 3 nights on Likoma Island, The Isle of Baobab, doing pretty much the same thing as I did on Chizimulu. I did two more dives here ...
It's good to have goals
... . The beer actually comes in a carton that has huge writing on it stating "International Beer". I doubt anyone drinks this stuff outside Malawi. The locals had me try it and it tasted as awful as it looked. Whenn I peaked inside the carton, it looked more ...
Huckleberry Finn eat your heart out
... and within a few hours we had arrived at the other island, with nearly everyone feeling sea sick bar me. Much like Chizimulu, Likoma was ridiculously idyllic and we spent a few more days lounging around. We did visit the cathedral on the island ...
Lake Malawi
This is a top pick! ... have for generations... The govt are also aware but haven't kicked a project off to try & utilise it either... and Malawi is an incredibly poverty stricken country too. I guess its another example of another African country with amazing natural ...
Likoma Island is Paradise
... trip up Lake Malawi from Monkey Bay. We would not see the Ilala again on her north bound trip for another week, thus we would call Likoma Island home for the next 7 days. There in no dock on Likoma, so we boarded one of the lifeboats along with about 30 ...
Christmas Time
We arrived at Likomo Island and stayed for 5 nights including Christmas. Like Chizumulu we spent most of our time relaxing on the beach with plenty of swimming. We were interrupted one morning when what looked like a huge plume of smoke threatened to ...
One week on Likoma and "Cheezy" Islands
Likoma and Chizumulu Islands: I arrived at Likoma when it was getting dark, a smaller boat came to fetch us at the ferry and I started walking to get to the only camping of the island situated on the other side of the island. I met a kid on the way that ...
A Mild Case of Likoma
A small, pretty island on Lake Malawi just off the coast of Mozambique, and if I may say not the easiest place in the world to get to (that, I believe, would be the back seat of Jude Law's Bentley). In fact, Likoma is actually located Mozambican waters ...
THE LAKE OF STARS
... Saturday and we had a Monday rendevous with a dilipidated ferry and islands to explore in the middle of Lake Malawi. Chizimulu Island----- Our newly formed Swiss/Australian alliance made its way to Nhakata Bay with a slight detour through a sugar ...
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