Malawi 2019 part I - Zomba, Liwonde, Mangochi

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April 20th 2019

Published: June 2nd 2019

Hippos, elephants, a lizard, a spider and more It has been on our minds for a couple of years to visit Malawi. It may be a bit of a forgotten corner of the world but it is a country people we have met have spoken well of. This year it fitted nicely in our schedule to go there and since we also managed to get flight tickets we decided to go. Malawi is shaped almost like a sausage, it is long a... Read Full Entry

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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Ake Och Emma

We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info

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Crocodile

We saw one crocodile on the boat tour

That elephant looks happy

Doesn't that elephant look happy? Or perhaps "smug" is the right word to describe that look?

Wading elephant

We were lucky enough to catch the elephants right when they were wading across the river

Nice tusks

Nice tusks that elephant has. Too bad that there are people who don't understand that the tusks look better when sitting on an animal than anywhere else

River view

Magical view

Weed

This weed causes big problems. It grows very fast and can quickly "choke" a lake or a river

Sunset

In the evening the river was spectacular

Really rough road

We ended up on a really rough road, one where we would have been much better off with a 4-WD than with the taxi we had.

Tobacco factory

We asked if we could see some of the factory. And we could.

Storage area

They gave us a small tour of the storage area

Tobacco baler

In this device they make the tobacco bales. We guess a tobacco baler is the proper name for it.

Skull Rock

That rock resembles a human skull, hence the name Skull Rock

2nd June 2019

Maria
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Dödskalleklippan..
Den finns! Saknar Fantomen och Guran.. ;) (Alltid roligt att kika på er blogg!)

3rd June 2019

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

I Malawi
Visst var det oväntat att Fantomen skulle bo i Malawi? Vi visste inte det vi heller. Vi hamnade där av en slump. /Åke

2nd June 2019

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

This looks very Dutch.

2nd June 2019

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

These days, some keepers paint the tusks pink (rhinos too)) so they're of no value to poachers!

2nd June 2019

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

The weed might be water hyacinths? They everywhere ;o(

3rd June 2019

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

I think you are right
I think you are right that they are water hyacinths. Thank you for the information. I will update the text with this. /Ake

2nd June 2019

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

Interesting! Thanks for sharing!

3rd June 2019

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Off the beaten track
Glad you continue on our path of independence going to those countries few of us have experienced. Maybe some day. Thanks for taking us along.

3rd June 2019

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Thanks for reading
Thank you for reading the blog and it feels good that you enjoy it. /Ake

4th June 2019

RENanDREW
Ren & Andrew

Those eyes!
Haha I love the 'side-eye' this Hippo is giving you! But I have to admit, I had to look at a map to see the exact location of Malawi... and I had never seen their flag before! :/ Looking forward to reading more about your adventures :)

4th June 2019

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

They are not too happy having us around
The hippos are not really comfortable having people around. But then, most wild animals aren't. They were constantly watching us and making sure we didn't get any funny ideas. /Ake

4th June 2019

holamundo
Nina+Markus

Happy travels in Malawi
It is more than 10 years we travelled through Malawi. We experienced it with friendly people, stunning an dbeautiful landscape. But we also saw the other side when we experienced live corruption, extreme poverty and difficulties by travelling with public transport. Anyway, it made a huge impact on us and was very interesting. Curious about more blogs of yout travels in the sausage country. By the way, the country not only has a sausage form, they also have many sausage trees!

5th June 2019

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Noticed little or none of the dark sides of the Force
We can't say that we noticed any corruption really. We suspected that some police officers were asking for bribes but were surprised when we couldn't verify that they were. Of course wo noticed some poverty, but only very little compared to many other countries we have been to. But yes, travelling on public transport was from time to time a bit of a challenge. We have one more blog entry left to publish from Malawi. It will go live within two weeks. /Ake

4th September 2019

Elton
Elton.

Nice time at the "sausage", LOL. Malawi is also a country I'd love to visit one day. I love those unexpected, unplanned things like what happened to you at the tabacco factory!

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