Chiponde Beach Resort, Likoma Island

Carla Lemmis of Chiponde Beach Resort writes: 31 years ago, my husband Ian Lemmis backpacked here under one of the baobab trees that surround the Malipenga. He never forgot the beauty of this beach and later convinced me to sell everything and come back and make a difference in Chiponde Village.  Chiponde Beach Resort is open to …

Kizi Beach Camp, Chintheche

Richard Kerr writes: I wanted to make your readers aware of a new venture I have started in Malawi. A few years ago I bought a little piece of land near Chintheche from a friend. I decided that rather than building another lodge on the lake shore (of which there are many beautiful ones already) …

A message from Bradt Guides – and 50% discount on all Bradt titles

You don’t need reminding what an awful time we’re all facing. Life is on lock-down and each day brings more bad news. For the moment, as we’re stuck at home trying to get to grips with ‘social distancing’, the world feels a smaller place. But the world is still out there, as big as it’s …

COVID-19 self-quarantine in Malawi

Travellers to Malawi have little to fear specifically in terms of COVID-19 as to the best of out knowledge not a single case of the virus has been reported there at the time of writing. However, in order to prevent the importation of the virus, the Public Health Institute of Malawi (PHIM) has announced the …

Bradt Malawi 8th edition published

The 8th edition of Bradt Malawi was published in July 2019 and is now available to ship from the Bradt website. At 352 pages, it is by far the most detailed guidebook to Malawi in print, and it was completely updated for the 7th edition by Helena Smith. Read more or order a print copy …

Malawi and Mozambique trip report (Aug 2018)

Max & Tamara write: We did a 4-week backpacking trip to southern Malawi and northern Mozambique. We had both your guides for these countries with us and would like to share some remarks and comments with you. This was our route : Lilongwe - Monkey Bay - Ilha Mozambique (route via Chiponde - Cuamba - …

2019 Malawi/Mozambique trip report

Bas and Saskia write: We just returned from a one-month trip to Malawi and Mozambique. We gratefully used your Bradt travel guides, both of which were very practical. We would like to give you some updates, these were very useful for us in planning our trip, and hopefully others will benefit from ours as well. …

Mulanje Hike and Liwonde lodge

Mirza writes: We just came back from Malawi. It was not possible to organize a hike on the Mulanje massif in advance, since we have not received any answers to our e-mails. A very good guide (Osman) from the community campsite in Majete Wildlife Reserve recommended a guide called Feston to us (his phone number: …

Rumphi and Nkhotakota updates

Fam. Picqueur-Van Puymbroeck writes We were in Malawi for three weeks last month and had a fantastic time there thanks to the great help of the Bradt guide. There are just two things I would like to update you on : 1) In Rumphi ; the Matunkha Eco-Tourism Lodge is no longer operational. We were …

Trip report July/August 2018

Alistair writes: Firstly thanks for another really helpful guide. These observations are based on the 7th Edition in July/August 2018 - I have not listed restaurants I found closed but have included accommodation if closed Transport: far less buses than expected apart from on one or two routes so more likely to be using vans/share …