Malawi Travel Stories

Malawi: Africa for beginners - Malawi Emma Jayne Jones visits the warm heart of Africa.	Martin the Pimp Rat - Mzimba, Malawi Mary Beth Alison and her mother face a precocious rat in their bedroom.

Pearls in the Poo - Vwaza Marsh Game Reserve, Malawi Mary Beth Alison asks, what's cooler than stepping in elephant poo? Watching your mom step in elephant poo.	Malawi Beginnings - Blantyre, Malawi One girl's experience packing, leaving, and arriving in the tiny nation of Malawi.
Yellow Fever - Malawi When you forget your proof of yellow-fever vaccination, it never hurts to have a "doctor" on board.	Blantyre, Malawi to Francistown, Botswana (7 August 2002) For the first time ever Al surprises and disappoints himself by being too squeamish to take advantage of an extremely cheap and dinner-party-conversation-enhancing foodstuff: boiled mice on sticks. What a wimp.
Dar Es Salaam to Blantyre, Malawi (July 2002) Tanzania was fun - a gentle, pleasant and amusing country and people: a country that calls roundabouts "keepy-a-lefty's". Now it's on to Malawi a country trapped in a spiralling famine, due party to a corrupt government.	Soft Landings and Heavy Breathing in Malawi - Nkhata Bay, Malawi Aaron O'Sullivan's note to all parents: You do not
Big Brother's African Brother #43:Blantyre, Malawi to Harare, Zimbabwe, South Africa Concerned about the danger to travelers in unsettled Zimbabwe, Penny relies on information from other travelers and the safety in numbers approach.	Big Brother's African Brother #41: Mzuzu to Lilongwe, Malawi Penny discovers the etiquette for stowing your live chicken aboard a Malawian bus, but she's a little uncertain when it comes to dorm etiquette.

Big Brother's African Brother #42: Bladders of steel are required when travelling on ordinary buses Concerned about the danger to travelers in unsettled Zimbabwe, Penny relies on information from other travelers and the safety in numbers approach.	Big Brother's African Brother #39: Chitimba to Nkhata Bay, Malawi Penny learns a valuable lesson in the art of catching a minibus; stand on the road, assess which minibus is nearly full and will realistically leave in the next five minutes, then sprint for it.
Big Brother's African Brother #40: Nkhata Bay to Mzuzu, Malawi After leaving the truck, Penny and Tom have to come to grips with taking local transport. But Penny feels like she's seen more of the real Africa in the last couple of days than she ever did stuck on the truck.	Big Brother's African Brother #37: Iringa, Tanzania to Chitimba, Malawi The group are excited by the prospect of crossing into a new country, while Tom and Penny contemplate if they have a future on the truck (again).
Big Brother's African Brother #38: Chitimba, Malawi Tom and Penny confess to their tour leader that they are leaving the truck in Mzuzu, causing our tour leader to wail, 'What am I doing wrong?'	A Tambuku Parable It was on the back of a pick-up truck that Stephan