Malawi Travel Blog

Zomba is a lot of people's favourite town in Malawi.

Now, I have written a lot of blog posts about Malawi, almost all on my previous blog. Now that I my work is not unrelated to helping people visit and enjoy Malawi, it makes sense to blog about matters somehow connected to this. Although that means that there is now another angle behind what I write, I should emphasise that this in no way changes my intention to write honestly and hopefully positively, about Malawi. I will never use my blog to promote or sell something in Malawi that I do not believe in. That should be easy enough as I am my own boss and I only want to work with people and organisations that I think are doing a good job, especially if it is something I find interesting.

So, now that I have that disclaimer / explanation out of the way, let's get on with the blog.

I have been fourtunate enough to have been visiting Zomba since I was eleven months old. So, although I might be biased, I hope that I...

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This is an old blog post from I think June 2011. I see that some of my opinions have changed since then. However, the beauty and attraction of Zomba Plateau remains. I hope that you can appreciate the truthfullness of that claim despite the fact that we now offer road transfers with a driver to Zomba, among other places. So, of course I am biased when I say that you should visit Zomba...

Anyway - here is the old post

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Knowing and remembering a lot of the details from the CCAP cottage gave me some confidence in the accuracy of my memory of Zomba Plateau. That is relevant because a number of other things were puzzling for me. Quite a lot of things on Zomba Plateau would have me staring at them for a long time while I scratched my head. The first change that an old timer to Zomba Plateau notices is the road up. The road up to the plateau is NOT the Up Road. Instead, after the sawmill and a...

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