Malawi
Kate’s Malawi safari travels – Rhino Tracking on foot in Liwonde Park
The story of rhino conservation has been one of the glorious ‘feel-good’ stories of the 20th century. Back in 1930, we were staring over the abyss and facing the extinction of this pre-historic creature with only 10 known white rhino left in the world. Yet a few individuals, such as Ian Player, spear-headed the metaphorical [...]

Kate’s Malawi safari travels (part 4) – visit to Liwonde National park
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 [...]

Kate’s Malawi safari travels – Lake Malawi Robinson Crusoe-style (part 3)
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 [...]

Kate’s Malawi Safari travels – Heading to Kaya Mawa (part 2)
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 [...]

Kate’s Malawi safari travels – part 1
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 [...]


Kate Bergh is co-founder of Cedarberg African Travel, a specialist tour operator for Southern and East Africa.
She heads up the South African office, having lived in South Africa since 1993. Her home looks up to the Cedarberg Mountains, where she enjoys hiking and cycling, when she’s not out discovering new places to visit, with her three children in tow. Kate has travelled extensively throughout the region to Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe as well as most areas of South Africa. She also loves history, meeting people and a good thriller...

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