Blogs from Malawi, Africa - page 70

DJ Yoda: ‘Lake of Stars was without doubt one of the most memorable shows I’ve ever played. I’d thoroughly recommend it to anyone up for an adventure and a laugh.’ The Lake of Stars Festival was brought to life by Will Jameson, one of the founder members of Liverpool club night Chibuku. Will discovered the beautiful country of Malawi whilst volunteering in his gap year and knew instantaneously that when he next returned, it would be for a reason; and so the Lake Of Stars festival was born. The event, which has now become an annual occurrence, aims to raise the profile of what is a beautiful but poor country. The people of Malawi truly are the biggest asset; with the country being described as “The warm heart of Africa”, and this is evident in the ... read more

After a week in Arusha, (while the family went on Safari and we caught up with friends), the trip proper was about to start. We were planning to fly to Dar es Salaam (to save 10 hours on a bus) and then catch the train to Malawi and make our way overland down through Malawi then Zambia and ending up in Victoria Falls. Of course plans sometimes need to change!!! The train from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania travels some 1800kms over 3 days all the way into Zambia but we were only going to go to the Malawi border (about 840kms) - but that was still going to be 24 hours. We decided to travel First Class, which meant that we had a cabin to ourselves, and that we could order dinner and breakfast from ... read more

Apart from the common sitings of butt naked tourists lying on the golden beaches or sitting on the large rocks in the fresh water lake, smoking hemp and eating spice cakes while braiing fresh fish and meat on the shores, Malawi has got an interesting and rich cultural heritage that's just longing to be explored. I went to Dedza in the central region of Malawi where i was flabagusted at the Rock paintings made the 'Bantu' people (Midgits). Their paintings do speak for themselves. They are mainly about witchcraft beliefs and sex education taught in camps in caves on top of mountains. For such very short people they could draw very massive drawings on extremely large rock surfaces that are several times their height. How did they do it, i asked..and what did they use to ... read more

Ok, just got to the computer after a week of being out and about only to find out that travelblog.org had a systems crash and lost a ton of entries from a bunch of different users. Apparently I'm one of the unlucky ones. I'll write more about the past week at a later date. I'm going to use this time to try to figure out how to recover what was lost and catch up on e-mails. All in all, everything is fine over here. Hope everyone is well. E-mail me.... read more

We left Livingstone a day earlier than expected to give ourselves more time later on the tour. Our first day after Livingstone involved a fair bit of driving to Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. We didn't spend much time in town as it was getting late so we went on to the campsite which seemed to be breeding very small dogs, which followed us around the campsite. Our next day was a full day of driving, arriving at Chipata in the evening. We only made one stop at a few market stalls where we spoke to a man who claimed Peter Crouch had been through yesterday! The following day we headed across the border from Zambia into Malawi, a small country stretching up lake Malawi. We ploughed on to the campsite which was situated on the ... read more