Lilongwe, Malawi Travel Blogs

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

... on one exotic and annual crop that eats up their money in seed and fertilizer and provides nothing but carbohydrates. When I got to Lilongwe, I called Stacia again and she told me where to go to get picked up by Kristof. I finally got there after some ...

The crazy Christian
Apr 12, 2006

... to see, 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 ...

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

... we will spend most of the time camping. Thankfully, we met some other travelers and had a great time walking around "downtown" Lilongwe and swapping travel stories with them. It certainly reminded us how nice it is to have friends! We miss all of you ...

Long drive to Lilongwe
Aug 6, 2005

Nkhata Bay - Lilongwe

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. ...

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 Cry for Help
Oct 17, 2005 (3 photos)

... ," says Dorothy. "We need the cash to get the food here now." But sitting in her office in Lilongwe, Malawi's capital, Dorothy easily rhymes off a list of international disasters competing for worldwide attention: the earthquake in Pakistan, ...

Made It
Mar 15, 2006

... needed to be obtained and poured into the engine, which meant a complicated maneuvering of seats. Eventually I made it into Lilongwe past villages of crumbling houses and barns of drying tobacco leaves. Lilongwe is very green and pretty with big trees ...

Alternatives to Starvation
Oct 19, 2005 (1 photos)

Kristof Nordin is ready for visitors. The dining room table in his modest house west of Lilongwe, Malawi's capital, is covered with dozens of Zip-Lock bags containing beans, fruit, legumes and other indigenous food stuffs that he and his wife, Stacia, have ...

On the Razor's Edge of Hope
Oct 23, 2005 (8 photos)

... rests his bicycle, beside the worn out blackboard he uses to teach English lessons to children in his community in central Malawi. Soft-spoken, with an engaging smile, Roger is the picture of a well-educated and ambitious young African. Except that his ...

A stopover in Lilongwe
Aug 28, 2008

... of a rather more comfortable than usual African bus (but only rather, so don't get excited), we arrived in Lilongwe, the peculiar capital of Malawi.  It is inadvisible to walk about the area of the bus station while clueless, so we got a taxi to ...

Malawi
Jul 26, 2003 (2 photos)

Hi Guys, You can read our update from Malawi in our entry from Cape Town, South Africa entitled 'Cape Town at Last!!!'. Cheers, K & S

Emma's perspective on Malawi
Jun 30, 2003

... Bay took its toll. We bid a sad goodbye to Becky as she headed back to Tanzania and we headed off to the capital, Lilongwe. Lilongwe is a filthy hole and we stayed in some filthy brothel hovel and then left pronto, the next morning, on our way to ...

Me, on Malawi
Jun 30, 2003 (5 photos)

... and then there was a local band playing and a birthday party for someone we hadn't met...). Finally we made our way to Lilongwe and were thoroughly unimpressed. It was a horrible place and I never want to go back. This opinion may be biased because we ...

Please don't touch my bag in public
Aug 5, 2007

... Our couch, chugging, puffing, and full to the brim pulled out by around 8:30-9:00 am and the journey started. And ended in Lilongwe; at least for the night. Unable to find a minibus that was continuing to Muzuzu, we decided we would spend the night at ...

Lilongwe
Jul 7, 2008 (1 photos)

7th July 2008 Lilongwe So having spent 5 hours or so doing the long journey south to Lilongwe we finally arrived at the capital. Normally we would have chosen to break up a long 300km journey and stay somewhere on the way. But there just wasn't ...

Happy Anniversary
Sep 30, 2008 (5 photos)

... pain from this fact. Haha. It was another 5am start and we are back to the bus station for our final leg to Lilongwe. On the bus we meet a nice couple from Holland who recommend a campsite called mabuya, owned and run by an English couple,  ...

Lilongwe
Aug 19, 2008

A very long session at the post office was the order of our time in Lilongwe.  We were all trying to post home Malawi chairs along with other souvenirs, and it took hours!!  The lady behind the counter didn't seem to know how to deal with all ...

Beach, village and studio
Feb 6, 2009 (2 photos)

... to build a clinic in the area. I will sleep in a village for the first time. All of rural Malawi operates in villages. And even the "suburbs" of Lilongwe and Blantyre have a village chief; even if he has less direct control of the community. On ...

Malawi, the "warm heart" of Africa
Apr 29, 2008 (80 photos)

Malawi update Most of our time in Malawi was spent at Lake Malawi.. a popular tourist destination. We toured a local school, had an opportunity to ride horses, swim, relax on the lake.  You can check out the BBC country profile on Malawi here: ...

Tanzania and Malawi
Mar 21, 2005

... the toast. We spent the whole day in the truck driving up into the mountains of Tanzania on our way to the border to Malawi. We arrived at this gorgeous campsite in Iringa at about 5pm - long 12 hour drive. We had dinner at the campsite restaurant, ...

02/08/09
Aug 2, 2009

When you think about it, we have already done more than half our trip so, in essence we are already on the way home... or the home stretch. I did not think about it like this but I rather miss home actually. Well after we had breakfast and while we are ...

24/07/09
Jul 24, 2009

... AIRWAYS" all I can say is that there is a very long way to catch up with Qantas. On the arrival in Lilongwe (the capital city of Malawi) the big surprise was that the international airport is even smaller than the one on the gold coast. After passports and ...

it's a Channel Islands kind of day
Apr 24, 2008 (46 photos)

... hoping we wouldn't have to face another border post until tomorrow, fearing the worst, but in the end continuing onto Lilongwe (capital of Malawi) was the best decision we made. I could hardly believe how incredibly fast and easy - and cost FREE - the ...

Up to Lilongwe, Malawi
Oct 8, 2008 (9 photos)

... were 100 blankets and 250 toys.  Half the blankets will go to the orphans and the balance divided up between the Lilongwe and Blantyre churches.     We then drove 30 miles to Dr. Chilopora's home in Ntcheu accompanied by his ...

Lilongwe
Feb 15, 2006

... pushed it into a bump start, then they disappeared back into the night. We spent four days and nights in Lilongwe collecting and organizing ourselves. The hotel staff was very friendly. Though the walls of our room were covered in smashed mosquitoes, ...

Zambia time
May 14, 2008 (6 photos)

... almost every village and people harmonizing songs about  Jesu as they catch lifts on the back of trucks in to town.   Till the next blog, another hearty farewell, and we'll talk again from Malawi.          

The arrival of the Lockwoods to Malawi
Oct 10, 2008 (4 photos)

... since my first visit in Malawi in 2000 when we had the groundbreaking for our first LifeNets clinic in Lilongwe. On that trip I baptized him in Lake Malawi.  He then moved with his family to the United Kingdom to study. He received a degree in ...

Day 201 - Malawi, Lilongwe - Jamie's Gaydar
May 28, 2009

... /lunch/dinner) and waking up long before your body actually wants to (every day). Arrived in Lilongwe on lunch. Being the capital of Malawi it comes complete with Shoprite, internet, Nandos and wooden markets. After grabbing lunch (crackers and ...