http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Southern/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Malawi , Southern en-us Mon, 07 Dec 09 02:39:56 +0000 Mon, 07 Dec 09 02:39:56 +0000 I arrived in Malawi on Thursday after only 15 or 16 hours of travelling... The flight was OK but came with the usual problems Small seats bad food TV not working but this was more than made up for in the flight from Nairobi to Lilongwe where the plane was very empty and so I was able to have 3 seats to myself and have a proper sleep for a few hours rather than dose off wondering if I was goi http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Southern/Blantyre/blog-444906.html Hello EverybodyHere's our first Malawi entry. It was quite the trip from Mozambique to Malawi and we were glad to get to Blantyre which is a big city. Malawi is one of the poorest countries in Africa but it's very friendly and seems more organized than some other countries we've been too. They have a lot of their own exports here tobacco tea coffee nuts honey etc.. But most items have http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Southern/Mount-Mulanje/blog-441455.html Hey Hey HeyHope you guys are all well Itrsquos been a little while since I last checked in I left you in Lilongwe newlywed Irsquoll pick up from thereMarried life was great fun We spent our lsquohoneymoonrsquo eating pizza and ice cream at Mama Miarsquos an absolute gem of an Italian restaurant nestled away behind poinsettia trees in the sleepier districts of Lilongwersquos ol http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Southern/Cape-Maclear/blog-432678.html I barely got home from Camp GLOW before I had to come right back out of site for a Strategic Planning Conference in Blantyre. From Monday August 17th through Friday August 21st we stayed at the Kabula Hill Lodge. I really loved the Lodge and all of the people running it. They were really sweet and very helpful. The Lodge is nice and well located in my opinion not too far from the Peace Corps http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Southern/blog-429268.html I decide that having done nothing of interest so far in Malawi I should hit Mt Mulanje on my way out to Mozambique. Mulange isn't a major mountaineering challenge its highest point is about 3000m but its appeal lies in that it's more a massif than a mountain so there are opportunities for merely hiking among its dozen or so peaks as well as climbing them.I'd first heard of Mulanje soon after http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Southern/Mulanje-Town/blog-426471.html One thing I forget to ask at Infomulanje is how to acquire an obligatory guide and I wonder if I've made a booboo when I start chatting with a guy B on the street and agree to use his services. I've read that porters which I won't need are allocated on a rotation basis so they get cheesed off if you arrive at the trailhead with one already and I'm not sure if the same applies to guides. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Southern/Mount-Mulanje/blog-426467.html The LilongweBlantyre run is clearly the flagship bus route in all of Africa as I pay 20 for a journey that's not even 4.5 hours more noteworthy and incongruous is that the bus has AC and a toilet. For free we get views of various inselbergs rising out of the green countryside. The landscape here really doesn't end with Lake Malawi.Blantyre is as lacking in cheap accommodation as Lilongwe http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Southern/Blantyre/blog-425232.html Mulanje MassifI want to first apologize for taking a couple weeks between blog posts Irsquove been rather busy with work and have failed to get around to writing this post. However I promise that it is worth the wait.A couple of weeks ago I visited a mountain in Malawi named Mulanje Massif which rests in the Shire Valley in the southern region of the country. Anyone who has seenread the Lor http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Southern/blog-416721.html Moni Muli bwanji thatrsquoll be lsquoHello How are yoursquo in chechewa... Greetings from Monkey bay Malawi Hope you guys are all well apologies to James for the length of the last blog Irsquoll try to keep this one down to a lunch hour snack sizeSo Itrsquos been a while again I left you guys with the cliffhanger of Zimbabwe... Fortunately I lived to tell the tale I http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Southern/Monkey-Bay/blog-411802.html Sorry it has been a while.So for an update. I went home as a surprise to everyone except my dad in May. It was great and I really enjoyed going around confusing people. I even visited WV and NYC while in the states apart from NC. It was great and I ate A LOT. I was worried that when I returned to Malawi I wouldn't be able to adjust back but it turned out that it was a lot easier than I t http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Southern/blog-410738.html After a brief boozy farewell at Doogles on Thursday night we leave Blantyre in high spirits me ready after ten weeks in Malawi to move on to wider and wilder pastures and the others Marie and Eline from the Kabula Lodge Richard and Melise two expat friends at the start of a tenday holiday to the Mozambican coast. Spend enough time as a freelancer and you begin to forget what itrsquo http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Southern/Mangochi/blog-400843.html HeyWell Africa was amazing I am doing today's blog update on Malawi as there is just too much for each place to stick it all into one entry Mark and I arrived in Lilongwe Malawi after our 8 hour flight from London to Nairobi layover for a couple hours in the AM and then 2.5 hours flight from Nairobi to Lilongwe. We were met by our driverguide Henry and cook Raphael. We didn't yet realize http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Southern/Cape-Maclear/blog-399771.html I have been very busy this monthA short recapAt the beginning of April I attended a Malawi Blood Transfusion training in Lilongwe. It ended up being only myself and one other volunteer Tessa... A lot of people had come into town for a camp GLOW fundraiser and therefore did not plan to go to the training. My friend and I thought it would be sooo weird and boring because it was just the two o http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Southern/Liwonde-NP/blog-396107.html So I should start with the bad news and get it out of the way. I think I heard somewhere that bad things come in threes...My three this month in no particular order are my ipod was stolen my garden was destroyed and my boyfriend broke up with me. As for the first there is not much to say...I was really sick A lovely case of viral gastroenteritis and while I was passed out in between my s http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Southern/Nsanje/blog-386386.html Forgot about me didn't ya... As you know I just arrived in northern Thailand for my new post with UNHCR but I want to quickly wrap up the last few months in Malawi because there was so much going on I will get these out quickly so I can start posting pictures of my new digs.I think I may have mentioned in an earlier blog that I had been trying for months to organize some kind of traditional da http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Southern/Cape-Maclear/blog-383829.html Lieve allemaalNa een emotioneel afscheid in Mwaya ging het richting Senga Bay. Dit is een plaatsje aan Lake Malawi zo'n 15 km ten oosten van Salima.Senga Bay KleinIndi in MalawiHet was een rare gewaarwording toen ik van mijn minivan richting de lodges in de baai liep. Het plaatsje Senga Bay zag er erg arm uit met al haar hutjes en krotten. Als je echter de 'main road' verliet en over het stra http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Southern/Mangochi/blog-374224.html Zomba Plateaux http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Southern/Blantyre/blog-369672.html Construction in Malawi http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Southern/Blantyre/blog-369670.html Retail Therapy http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Southern/Blantyre/blog-369669.html This month has been very SLOW. I guess looking at the pictures it appears that I have done a lot but I feel like I have not. The students were supposed to arrive back to school January 5th. Unfortunately they have not yet returned. I do not want to get into too much detail right now because I think that things have become political with the elections coming up in a few monthshellipbut it al http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Malawi/Southern/Blantyre/blog-368951.html