This is my fourth post about my recent Malawi safari trip. Next on the agenda was the extremely pretty Liwonde National Park south of the lake. We were staying at Mvuu Wilderness Lodge.  Abasi said 3 hours, Alex said 2½ hours but in fact it took just over 2 hours to get there. (I always [...]

This is a third post about my recent Malawi safari “recce” trip. Hear about my earlier posts on Chelinda Lodge and Kaya Mawa … I am a bit of a fair weather camper – I look at friends heading off for a three week camping trip into the bush and I admire them, but I [...]

This is a second post about my recent Malawi safari scouting trip. See part one here… From the Nyika Plateau we flew one hour to the lovely Likoma island in the northern part of Lake Malawi. I couldn’t believe the contrast in temperature – from warm jackets & fleeces at Chelinda to sundresses & shorts [...]

Land of Smiles is the well-known marketing slogan for Malawi. Land of Contrasts would work equally well. In the first 24 hours I couldn’t have experienced two more contrasting areas … the windswept high mountainous plateau of the Nyika National Park and the sub-tropical paradise of northern Lake Malawi. Our first stop on our Malawi [...]