A tennis racquet, a hiking boot, and a machete lashed to a piece of bamboo. What critters are these three items particularly useful in dealing with? Continue reading “Weapons of Choice”
With apologies to our regulars, this is going to sound more like a travel brochure than a normal blog entry. Less than an hour from the road that connects Nyika to Rumphi is Vwaza Marsh Reserve, and we stopped there for one night at Kazuni Camp. There is almost no information at all available about this camp on the internet–all of the normal travel sites say “closed until further notice,” or something similar. And the phone number in the latest printed tour guides is no longer in operation. So for the benefit of those who are searching in vain for information about Kazuni Camp and the Vwaza Eco Lodge, I’m going to include several boring details like prices and phone numbers. Continue reading “Vwaza National Park”
On the drive out of Nyika, we had one last animal encounter. It started with fresh dung–there were several piles on the road that hadn’t been there when we drove into Nyika.
We are now in the middle of our kids’ school’s 2-week-long Easter break. We haven’t spent much time out of the city since arriving in Malawi, so we decided it was time to break into the US dollars that we brought with us after selling our vehicles back in the States. We spent most of last week in the Northern part of Malawi visiting a couple of National Parks.
We drove four hours from the end of the tarred road into Nyika National Park, stopping only for vomit breaks along the bumpy, muddy, and rutted 60 miles to the Nyika Plateau. The plateau is beautiful, and is so high in altitude that there are no mosquitoes! This was the first time we’ve been able to sleep without mosquito nets since we came to Malawi last year. It was also cold at that altitude, so we very much enjoyed having a fireplace in our chalet. Continue reading “Nyika National Park”
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