Liwonde, Malawi Travel Blogs

Safari!!!
Apr 29, 2009 (1 photos)

... 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 river ...

Liwonde National Park is Conquered Despite Setback
Jun 13, 2007

... .   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 was a man ...

Sleeping with Hippos, Dining with Bandit Monkeys
Aug 17, 2005 (3 photos)

... 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 vehicle, we ...

The first row and Liwonde NP
Jul 5, 2008 (9 photos)

... . 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 ...

Day Safari
Aug 10, 2008 (2 photos)

On the way back from Zomba, we took a day-long safari through Liwonde, including a river cruise and a close encounter with some elephants.

Safari
Dec 31, 2007 (12 photos)

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 until ...

Liwonde National Park
Sep 12, 2005 (1 photos)

... 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 keeping ...

Hippos and hyenas
Oct 24, 2009

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 ...

Liwonde
Jan 27, 2007

Hippos in The Shire River