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Travel Blogs from Zomba, Malawi
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Day 2 - Black ice scramble up Sapitwa
This is a top pick! ... 8,000 feet up above the valley floor and the plains I had climbed up from the previous day. It was also the highest point in Malawi. We could actually see all the way out to Lake Malawi that must have been over 100 miles away. There were a lot of ...
4 days wait for the daily train
This is a top pick! ... . I found out the daily train I wanted to take did not go for another 4 days and the 2 potential flights to Malawi didn't run anymore! I'd heard really negative thinks about Nampula from other travelers, but despite all this I did quite like Nampula, ...
Fighting for the muzungu
This is a top pick! ... up. The porter he picked for me was Jeffrey. I booked into the CCAP mission ( this is a big Christian organization in Malawi) where I had a peaceful afternoon listening to all the hymns been sung as only African know how. Later I went for a dip in ...
Day 3 - A lecture for the porter and guide
This is a top pick! ... contained paneer! Chinese was Rolland's idea and he told us when we were there that this was his first ever Chinese meal. Fancy picking Malawi to try your first Chinese! A few more G+Ts and then back to Doogles to finish the night with yet more G+T. I ...
Day 1 - Drunken porter or sick grandma
This is a top pick! We'd arranged to get a 6am start to avoid the heat for what was going to be a steep climb. By 6:30 neither the porter or the guide had arrived so I walked down to the village to find them. Beste said that Jeffrey had probably been out on the piss the ...
Nampula Again
This is a top pick! ... without potholes. By 02:00 we reached Mocuba, which the LP describes as 'a junction town for travel from Quelimane to Nampula or Malawi'. I was shocked to see huge palaces along the wide avenues in this small town. We stopped at an open air bar ...
Op naar Ilha de Mocambique
's Morgens de bus naar Ihla gepakt. Kan ik dat verschrikkelijke pensao achter me laten waarvan ik niet eens meer de naam kan herinneren. Wederom weer in een busje opgevouwen alleen nu begin ik het echt zat te worden...4-5 uur, je wordt alle kanten op ge ...
Zomba, Malawi
... Malawi is not over populated with Internet cafe, not suprisingly. We are now south of the lake having crossed the border into Malawi, got the wrong bus (Ruth's fault!) corrected ourselves and eventually go to the ferry terminal in Nkhata Bay. We got the ...
Nampula !!! Heerlijk zo'n vliegtuig
... vergeleken van waar ik kwam en nog duurder ook ?!??! Hier ontmoet ik Harold en Irina. Harold komt uit Duitseland en zit in Malawi om zijn studie Geneeskunde af teronden. Tis laat en we moeten nog alledrie eten. We eindigen ons zoektocht bij een Hotdog ...
Capital of the North
After 2 hours on a pick up, and then 2 in a small minibus, we arrived in Nampula, to spend the night and catch an early morning bus to Quelimane. We found the hotel we wanted to stay in, but it quickly became apparent that it was possible to rent rooms ...
From the Malawi Border
... we have kind of complained that what we were seeing was not the real Africa. Well, the area of Mozambique between the border Malawi and Mocumba definitely is the real Africa (so far at least). We passed through some stunning scenery, sharp mountains, big ...
A Cheeky Trip to the South, and a couple of Freaks
... weekend, went to Dedza saturday to christen they're bbq, very tasty burgers made by chippy. Next day we travelled down to Zomba took a good 4 hours...v uncomfortable mini-bus but some good stop offs for road side chips, which i am ADDICTED too..so good, ...
Smelly express bus to Zomba
... up towards Lilongwe. Dom The bus journey from Blantyre to Zomba was quite traumatising, yes. If we're taking more buses in Malawi I will definitely need to pack something to cover my nose with! The other problem was no access to the toilet for five ...
Sleeping with Hippos, Dining with Bandit Monkeys
... doing, we'd agreed on a destination and I let them know they were going to take me there or I wasn't paying a single Kwacha (Malawi's currency). They relented and we tore off down the road. I could see why they were anxious. Once we passed through the ...
The Zomba Plateau
Aangekomen in Zomba, kom ik samen met Angela Sergio weer tegen !! Zomba is een klein echt lokaal plaatsje waar je nog het gevoel hebt van de buitenwereld (lees: europa) bent afgesloten. Al is er altijd wel ergens een mogelijkheid om internet op te ...
The Voyage to Zomba: Five Traumatized, One Dead
... a surprise trip to Zomba. From my initial arrival in Malawi, I was told that Zomba was one of the most beautiful cities in Malawi. Zomba was the nation's first capital and is home to the famous Zomba plateau. Ntcheu, where we are staying, is about ...
Back to Nature
We went from Blantyre to the Zomba Plateau and stayed one night. We hiked the basically straight up "Potato Path" to get to the top from Zomba town. Unfortunately once we got there we realized it was mother's day and the cheap places to eat ...
Hiking and biking on the Zomba Plateau
Zomba is the former capital of Malawi and a very nice city in the shadow of the impressive Zomba Plateau. I met with Louie who I knew from Kande Beach and could stay at his friend Gibran who was also on couchsurfing. Apparently he hosted people all the ...
The first row and Liwonde NP
What a crappy day. Began to wonder what the hell we were doing. Began with two hours on the back of a pickup from Monkey Bay South towards Liwonde National Park. Fine if you're alone and on a tarmac road. Not if you're there with 30 Malawians on a gravel ...
Swamps, buffalo, hunting, and private 7 hr. flight
I have arrived in an area of the world where the tiniest of creatures, the mosquito, the harshest of all diseases, AIDS, and the largest land animal in the world, the elephant, ALL are deadly killers that take peoples lives every minute of the day. And ...
Zomba Plateau
We took a weekend trip to Zomba, the former capital of Malawi. We hiked along the ...
The Beautiful South
... of a cyclone forced us to change our route and add Liwonde to our schedule. We ended up visiting Zomba twice as we backtracked to a Malawi/Mozambique border crossing with a tarmac road, instead of a dirt one, which would be easier to cross in the ...
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 ...
The road less travelled
Mozambique has experienced over 30 years of war so much of the northern region has fallen on hard times or hasn't developed at all. I don't think we realized how bad the infrastructure would be, especially considering that we estimated that it ...
Culture Shock
... as well as a couple German shepherd dogs that walk around with the full time security and rooster and hen. The people of Malawi might be the nicest people I have encountered since I was in Costa Rica. I have been welcomed to Malawi or the warm ...
Zomba - a place to return to
... another part of the country. It is a stunning location right on the plateau and overlooking nearly the whole of southern Malawi on a good day. The climate was cooler and the hills covered in dense forestry with an abundant supply of fresh strawberries; ...
Fun adventures
... coming weekend is the Opening ceremony for Open Arms 2. Karen and I need to stay here to help out because they will be very understaffed. It ought to be interesting...I need to go explore Zomba now. I hope everyone is doing ...
Celebrations on the Plateau
... for exercise as we made the distance before lunch. Alex from Mozambique text to explain she will be meeting us in Zomba with Rebecca and also Jamie from Malawi had explained earlier that she would be meeting us in Zomba around 12 noon. Tom and I grab a ...
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