Mulanje
Travel Blogs from Mulanje, Malawi
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Traversing Mount Mulanje
... carpeting the valleys below. After an equally tough descent and a ninety minute lunch, we continued along the Mulanje Plateau towards Thuchila Lodge via an undulating path that descended into valleys with babbling streams, skirting the majestic ...
Being on Top
... people in Africa’ etc., etc… With excitement we cross the border from Chipata, Zambia, into Malawi and make our way south into the Mulanje Mountains. Tea plantations, literally glowing in their green foliage, cover the foot of the mountain, ...
Muli bwanje from Mulanje!
... then suddenly you just come to an edge, and it was the most beautiful view I have EVER seen in my WHOLE entire life!! Because Mulanje is the only real mountain around and all the rest of the country is so flat you could just see for MILES and miles and ...
Another week in Malawi!
... be stepping over the border and back again but add that to our stopover flight in Nairobi airport and this is not so much a Malawi trip as an African tour! :p God reeaallllyyy has been looking after us through the whole thing, we have heard so many ...
Hiking Mount Mulanje up to 3001 meters
... to pay our guide and get to Blantyre where we could spend the night. If you go to Malawi and like hiking definitely go to Mulanje and hike the mountain. 3 days of hiking including everything costs us about 25 to 30 euro ...
mulanje bwanji
... the majority of the time the track is indistinguishable from the rest of the wood. the veiws were always incredible and mulanje pleasantly assualts the sense at every opportunity, from the amazing vistas that truely are breathtaking and the many ...
Mount Mulanje
... was knackered and the wheel buckling. Reward ourselves at the bottom with pizza from an italian restaurant in the middle of mulanje that looks totally out of place in comparison with the shabby huts and street sellers selling mice on sticks. Probably ...
Mulanje, Kilimanjaro for poor people
After a quick stop of in the capital to see some friends back off to old Blighty we headed south to the Mulanje Massive. We organised a 3 day 2 night hike up the mountain, with a guide and a porter. It was absolutely amazing and I'm sure people pay ...
Mozambique here we come
... you for everything - like new insurance, car registration, visas and even just to stamp your passport!) I had changed some money in Malawi. I was only able to get 200,000 Meticals...don't get too excited...it's only $10US. That was all ...
Malawi!
... fijn om er rond te struinen en marktjes te bekijken. Na twee dagen hier doorgebracht te hebben zijn we verder gereisd naar Mulanje. Bij het vertrek hiernaartoe hadden we onze eerste kennismaking met het busvervoer in Malawi. We zaten om 7u in een van de ...
Hiking on Mount Mulanje
... night there then another bus south to Blantyre. I met an English guy, Ben, in Blantyre and together we took off to Mount Mulanje. The hiking was excellent, one tough day to get up to the plateau then two more days up there, hiking over rolling hills. ...
Mount Mulanje
Mulanje is a beautiful town. Located around the base of the Mulanje Massif, a spectacular granite plateau that rises almost vertically from its surroundings. The gentle slopes at the foot of the plauteau around the town are covered in tea plantations ...
Mulanje Massif
A few days camping near the Mulanje Massif. The huge hunk of rock seems to attract energy and we enjoy walking around. I stay in camp for a day offering to do the shopping instead. I convince a friendly Malawian to shop for me and so spend a very pleasant ...
Its a long way up
After arriving in Malawi, we headed south straightaway to go hiking at Mt Mulanje. Lots of other travelers we came across recommended it and we were looking forward to some log fires in huts on the mountain. We arranged for a guide to take us for 4 days, ...
A day in the Distribution
... , a rather dramatic rock form that explodes out of the flat lands between the many Tea plantations. We checked in to Mulanje View Motel which offered a private room with a free breakfast and delivered, a nice unsuspected treat compared to our normal ...
Hiking Mount Mulanje
... expect anything in return. I even started expecting this kind of treatment in the end. :-) The ride to Mulanje was another interesting one where I was seated next to a 23 year old modern girl who told ...
A very difficult climb
What a great weekend. We climbed to the top of Mt Mulanje (2500m) although not to the highest peak. This took us 5 hours and was one of the most difficult things I have done in my life. There were lovely views from the top and an amazing sense of ...
It's tea time!
HelMan's last stop in Malawi was Mulanje, a town close to the border with Mozambique. It's Malawi's tea capital and the nearby surroundings are full with tea fields which got Herman so excited, he decided to take a few dives into the tea plantations. The ...
Mount Mulanje
Well, I'm back from Mulanje. It was a great trip. It was really difficult climbing the mountain because much of it was pretty much straight up. We had fantastic views and the weather wasn't too hot. Ireen had a lot of trouble ...
mountain hopping and tea cropping
... blanket. With one last effort I reached the summit and Chambe Plateau. It was just a gentle stroll alongside a stream through the endemic Mulanje Cedar trees, the birds sang a victory march and I collapsed on the porch of my hut for the night. The hikes ...
This Bump Feels a Bit Mulanje
... travelers we talked to who had already been there, I was able to convince Laynni to head down to Southern Malawi to tackle Mount Mulanje, supposedly the 2nd highest peak in Africa after Kilimanjaro (not that we had any intention of tackling the peak, or ...
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