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Mzuzu Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Mzuzu, Malawi
Malawi
This is a top pick! ... relaxing afternoon at the pool overlooking the lake enjoying some drinks, catching up on our journal, and unwinding. Our last day in Malawi was spent driving towards Tanzania. It was a long day in the truck, but the people in our group passed the ...
Mzuzuzuzuzu
This is a top pick! ... a bus and roll out of Dar es Salaam at 5:45, first light, on a 12 hour journey towards the border with Malawi. Its a private bus company so thankfully it only has four stops along the route and the journey is un-eventful. The highlight is driving ...
Picking up the pieces at Mzoozoozoo
This is a top pick! ... that if you 1) weren't an idiot or 2) were in your home country, you wouldn't be spending this massive amount of cash. Malawi is beautiful, but the dark days clouded over our first taste of it. Now, in Mzuzu, we're in a backpacker hostel, ...
Falling asleep to the munching of elephants
This is a top pick! Our guidebook (you know, the one we used to have) calls Vwaza Marsh the hidden treasure of North Malawi. While everyone goes and hangs out on the beach, few people come up to this area. After coming here, its pretty easy to see why. Our ...
Mzuzu and Chitimba
This is a top pick! ... these goodies was great to watch. We sat on his lovely carved chairs and chatted with the help of some bottles of 'greens' Malawi's own brewed Carlsberg. After a couple of these we did the deal and everyone left really happy. We were so pleased that our ...
Karonga
This is a top pick! ... the courage to join in too with great cheers from at least 300 adults and children. We will always remember Cornelius's genuine Malawi hospitality. Not wanting to out stay our welcome we left his house on Saturday for our next stop some 20kms south to ...
Dark days for Young Travellers
This is a top pick! ... and Daria because they have to pay $100 each to get into Malawi and we get in free). The "frequent minibuses" leaving from the Malawi side don't appear to be so frequent, so we get talked into a taxi for the hop to Karonga. Here, Gregor and ...
Chitimba and Livingstonia
This is a top pick! ... loads of children who had just finished school. Livingstonia is described in the LP as "producing a fascinating glimpse into Malawi's colonial architecture." Again it affords some quite beautiful panoramic views from its wide dusty tree-lined streets. We ...
Moving on to Malawi
On our return to Dar we stayed one night and then had a long day of driving down to Chitimba on the shore of Lake Malawi. At one point during the drive we saw elephants by the roadside which was pretty amazing. At Chitimba we camped on the beach and I ...
Ups and Downs
A day of ups and downs. Lets start with the ups: After arriving to camp early, I left with Eric for the market, leaving Errol and Sharita to set up the kitchen. The market was one of the coolest yet; people were friendly and didn't hassle us. First ...
Malawi the beautiful
This morning we did a bit more emailing, catching up on wrapping up the loose ends in Cape Town - a bit frustrating when the connection is so slow and you need to send a huge file. We then went into Nico's Shopping Centre where we found a better cyber ...
A Different World
... the salty tang of the Indian Ocean. I left Chitimba two days ago and I made my way through the town of Mzuzu (one of the largest cities in Malawi) into a small inlet village called Kande Beach. I made camp here and will stay at least 2 days before ...
Back on the road
... ace live African music gig...it was all mucho fun! Our adventures then took us to the reason that most people make a visit to Malawi (apart from the ace people though of course!) and that is the lake. Lake Malawi is the most beautiful lake I have ...
Kande Beach R&R
When my eyes opened at 5:30 this morning, I couldn't go back to sleep. The sound of the crashing waves were too enticing, so I got up, boiled some water for my coffee and along with my coffee flask, took my book and laptop just a few paces from where we ...
Our first night at Lake Malawi
... a truck driver, not a bus driver….personally I am not sure what the difference is.) We finally arrived in Malawi and were really surprised with the change in scenery. We thought that Africa would all be dry but Malawi was very ...
malawi
... sea, done some ace scuba diving and seen lots of turtles and octopi! now spending a few chilled days working along lake malawi before heading through mozambique to harare for my birtday! it's going to be different! will update more asap and ...
An extra day of rest
... Lots of rain means floods. Floods wipe out bridges. Wiped out bridges change routes. Our original route was to take us along lake Malawi to beautiful Kande Beach. Instead we will take a shorter route, meaning that we get an extra day of rest. Keeping that ...
Lake Malawi, looks more like a Sea :)
... light and had a quick brekky of coffee and weetbix before hitting the road again. Today we leave Tanzania and head south into Malawi. Reading on the truck I have read a Paul Theroux book called Dark Star Africa and another African book called Gone to the ...
the last stretch is always the best bit
... comprised of 99% children, and they ALL came to scream, holler, shout and wave to us and Foxy as we drove by. Malawi is a gorgeous country. I had not expected it would be this beautiful. Stopping in Mzuzu to refuel and pick up some bread, cheese and ...
Chitimba Beach
After a copuple of drive days to get down to Malawi we finally made it to Chitimba Beach campsite. The first drive day was a bit of a disaster. 14 hours on the truck in the end, due to a lovely 3 hour wait for the ferry as one was broken and ...
The Diagnosis Is.....?
... a welcome relief for both of us. The next two days, we were on our own to do as we pleased. The campsite was along Lake Malawi, which felt like an ocean beach since you couldn't see the other side of the lake. The next day, Suzanne laid in the tent ...
Kisolonza Farm
... heart of Africa. We spent 3 days relaxing on the shores of the lake. This country has the friendliest people in Africa. Malawi during the colonial times was known as Nyasaland. In 1966 the country became a repunlic and Dr. Hastings Banda the president. ...
Day 205 - Malawi, Vipaya Cottages - Wood Carvings
... that scouted the stores for weird and wonderful outfits. Beautiful drive down zigzagging roads, through forest overlooking the Lake Malawi which is still continuing. Arrived around 4pm to our overnight destination of Vipaya Cottages. Nice place on ...
Malawi is fun
... on the beach outside of Dar es Salaam. The next day, we drove 12 hours to the border between Tanzania and Malawi, which was pretty brutal. But that particular campsite was quite nice, and they provided a traditional African meal in a gorgeous ...
Franci's beard cut
So, with only one pair of clippers with us on the trip being owned by Chris while it's Franci who is sitting with a very very thick black beard which desperately needs to be trimmed...there is only one result....Chris, in his very strong ...
Almost There
... and rough roads. We stopped for dinner on the side of the road at 22:00 and eventually arrived at our camp ground at Mzuzu around 01:00. It was far from enjoyable erecting our tent at this time in the morning. Less enjoyable still was ...
Lake Malawi Part 2
... for the elevated city is because it was too high for the mosquitoes to come to. It houses a branch of the university of Malawi, a church, a hospital and 11,000 residents. The view of lake Malawi as we ascended was astounding. On the walk we stopped ...