Malawi Travel Stories Articles

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 gir

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. Wh

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

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.