Weekend find: Mapiri Country Lodge
Passing through Dedza boma and looking for a place to get a hot meal and a cold drink? Give Mapiri Country Lodge a try!
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Discovery
Booze and cruise tour in Cape Maclear
Cape Maclear, also known as Chembe, is a small tourist and fishing village in the Nankumba Peninsula, at the southern end of Lake Malawi. Chembe Village and the surrounding islands sit in Lake Malawi national park, the first freshwater national park in the world. The park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in
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Weekend Find: Light lunch at CaRiz Cakery
Looking for a light lunch in Area 47? CaRiz Cakery, a coffee shop and cakery, should be on your list. And they prepare a great chicken sandwich!
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Tracking Lilongwe’s urban carnivores
A colleague from South Africa working in Malawi once exclaimed “Last weekend we saw a hyena in the middle of city centre. In the middle of the city! Gosh, it was a culture shock!”
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On Ntchisi’s back roads
It was a day before Malawi went to the polls to elect a new president, parliament and local councils. My wife had arranged a quick trip into Ntchisi and she needed company.
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Grandeur on the border: Kachebere Major Seminary
Sitting at the foot of Kalulu hills in Malawi – Zambia border district of Mchinji is Kachebere Major Seminary, a Roman Catholic philosophical training college.
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Chintheche: Life’s a beach!
After a wet drive from Lilongwe to Mzuzu, an overnighter at Glitz Cloud 9 Lodge in New Katoto and another wet drive down the M5, we were finally on the sandy shores of Chintheche. Chintheche is in Nkhata Bay, some 80 kilometres south east of Mzuzu city or 345 kilometres north of Lilongwe. Day one
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Mzuzu to Nkhata Bay: Traversing down the M5
Over the just ended holidays my family travelled to Chintheche, the famous beaches on the northern shores of Lake Malawi.
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Rwanda: Pilgrimage in the land of a thousand hills
Journeying through the land of a thousand hills. Rwanda, a land of immense beauty.
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Tea, Coffee and Tourism
The translocation of 500 elephants to Nkhotakota Game Reserve and the restocking of lions and other game to Liwonde National Parks has seen Malawi getting lots of press coverage as a wildlife safari destination of choice.
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