Travel Planning
Best Time to Visit Malawi
Malawi has one long rainy season and one long dry one, and the choice between them decides whether you get roads or waterfalls.
Every Echoes of Africa guide and essay filed under Malawi: entry rules, safety, money, transport, packing, food, culture, festivals and heritage.
Heritage
Zomba Plateau: Visitor and Heritage Guide
The plateau above the old capital, where the colonial administration went to escape the heat. Forest, escarpment and long views, and no World Heritage listing.
Heritage
Livingstonia: Visitor and Heritage Guide
A Scottish mission on an escarpment above Lake Malawi, founded in the wake of the slave trade Livingstone came here to end. Not a World Heritage site.
Heritage
Mount Mulanje Cultural Landscape: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Malawi newest World Heritage property is a mountain inscribed for what it means, not for how it looks: a sacred landscape of the Yao, Manganja and Lhomwe.
Heritage
Chongoni Rock-Art Area: Visitor and Heritage Guide
The richest concentration of rock art in Central Africa, painted by BaTwa hunter-gatherers and by Chewa farmers, and still used in initiation today.
Heritage
Lake Malawi National Park: Visitor and Heritage Guide
UNESCO compares this park to the Galapagos finches. Hundreds of cichlid species, nearly all found nowhere else, in one clear corner of the lake.
Destination
Malawi
Lake Malawi’s endemic cichlids, the rock art at Chongoni, and the sacred inselberg of Mulanje: a small country that rewards the unhurried.