Liwonde
Travel Blogs from Liwonde, Malawi
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Safari!!!
... Safari!!! Ahhh!!! Was actually the coolest thing ever ever ever in my whole entire life and this time it actually was!! Was at Liwonde national park on the ricer shire like hobbits and it was actually the most beautiful place I had ever been to. The ...
Liwonde National Park is Conquered Despite Setback
... dreaming. This was the start of my day. It would be a good one. Breakfast was at 8:30. Liwonde National park was the only item on the agenda for the day. Following breakfast we met our tour guide for the day. Mahata ...
Christmas Build up
... supermarket- oh Battersby oh Battersby!. We also had a Tuesday and a Wednesday club! then broke up for the holidays. I visited Liwonde National park for one night with Diddy, Derek, Rita and Andre her husband. We arrived at around 4pm and were taken ...
Sleeping with Hippos, Dining with Bandit Monkeys
... that took us the 60k, we were immediately surrounded by boys wanting to take us to our destination. We were headed for Liwonde National Park, Malawi's best wildlife park south of Lake Malawi on the Shire River. Because we didn't have our own 4WD ...
On Safari: Liwonde National Park
... south amongst an endless number of scattered villages, many had well signed stores in English, one of Malawi's national languages. Liwonde is located along the Shire River which flows from Lake Malombe and connects to the Zambezi River, ...
Day Safari
On the way back from Zomba, we took a day-long safari through Liwonde, including a river cruise and a close encounter with some ...
The first row and Liwonde NP
... . The bus touts where aggressive and almost physical. Walked 4km rountrip laden with bags to an ATM. A frosty silence between us began. Liwonde NP was still 80 miles or so South. Most African NP's are high end in terms of cost so would normally exclude ...
Safari
Well, I made it back from my safari! It was so amazing. The trip up there was a disaster, but once I got there, it was awesome! I had to take a mini bus to get there, so I got to the bus station at 6:30am, but the buses don't leave ...
Liwonde National Park
... squished that you actually lose feeling in your body). This is definitely the "real" Africa! We made it to Liwonde in good time (amazing considering what we had to endure last time...bicycle taxis, torrential downpours, the impossibility of ...
Erm, is this really the camping ground?
So after the festival we headed for much needed national park recuperation. The first lodge we stayed at had been kicked out the national park for some reason and now had a new lodge just outside. We were obviously dubious of how legit his ...
Hippos and hyenas
So we departed from Cape Maclear on Saturday morning for Liwonde National Park. After hearing tales of only being able to leave Cape Maclear (which is isolated away from main roads by a very long dust road) if you get up at 5am (and even then it'd be in a ...
First stop Liwonde
... is now Liwonde national park, Cape maclear and then straight onto Lilongwe to wait for our flights. Our first destination was Liwonde national park, and after a long national bus journey and a small minibus ride we got there. Nothing spectacular about the ...
what an adventure
... hell and no air conditioning - and no one here wears deodorant. Once we finally got going, it took another 3.5 hours to reach Liwonde. Cap it all off with a mile walk in the dark across strange 3rd world villages and you have yourself an adventure. ...
Safari
Hi! We just finished up with our 2 day safari at Liwonde National Park. We brought Ireen with us and we all had a great time. Saw lots of animals and ate soooo much food. While we were on our boat safari this morning, we ...
Tolerance is a virtue
Weekend at Liwonde National Park Departure was initially delayed by the bus being 45 mins late – its Africa! Then people wanted to go to airline offices, shops and banks before we set off. We left 40 mins after the time allotted, by the time ...
Weekend away
I stayed in a dormitory with the rest of our group. We went on a drive safari and a canoe safari. The canoe safari was amazing; we got to see elephants and hippos. To make things even better when I got back to the house I had an email telling me I ...
Safari
So the safari was great, got to do some really cool stuff. I saw: warthogs, elephants, zebras, antelope, waterbuck, hippos, crocodiles, monkeys, and baboons! I actually had a monkey run into the dining hall and steal my dessert off my plate! ...
Trop chouette!
... que mon père a du rester à Lilongwe pour des raisons professionnelles et politiques. Nous sommes donc allés à la ville de Liwonde pour une nuit, à l’hotel 'Hippo View Lodge’ avant d’embarquer le lendemain sur un bateau pour faire ...
Hippo's
This morning was a boat trip to see loads of hippos but sadly for Benedict (3) no crocodiles, apparently the river was too high. He had been ready to fight them with his wooden sword a la Captain Hook in Peter Pan. The hippos showed no inclination to ...
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