 | Running for Wildlife
2009-05-21, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: nimbus | | Lots of busy work over the last couple of weeks in preparation for last weekends’ Run for Wildlife. In past years, this event has taken place at a local school track, where sponsored runners ran to se... |
|
| | |
| A cough away from freedom
2009-05-11, Kasungu National Park, Malawi. By: nimbus | | I turned 38 years old today.
I have been fortunate enough to celebrate many a birthday in a foreign land, but none has had so much impact on me as celebrating this one in Africa. This last year, t... |
|
| | |
| Musungu
2009-04-27, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: nimbus | | What a busy time! Between working at the wildlife centre and the LSPCA, it sounds like I will be working pretty much 7 days a week for the next 5 ˝ months. Last week I went with the LSPCA to assist wi... |
|
| | |
| Malawi at last!
2009-04-25, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: nimbus | | The journey begins again. A bit of a disappointment at the San Francisco airport ticket counter in finding out that I did not have an aisle seat that I usually request for long flights, but a sweet su... |
|
| | |
 | Nkatha Bay to Karonga
2008-11-23, Nkata Bay, Malawi. By: saffa2 | | One month into our journey and with the ascending discoveries of different places and meeting new people along the way our excitement is growing, eagerly planning our visits to next locations, but at ... |
|
| | |
 | Lilongwe
2008-11-15, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: saffa2 | | It is amazing how fast and what you learn within the realms of travelling, especially when done the public way. An experience like this can either make you or break you and in our case I have found a ... |
|
| | |
 | Salima to Lilongwe
2008-11-14, Senga Bay, Malawi. By: saffa2 | | As we travel up along the Lake, we discover that Malawi has more and more beauty to unveil. Upon arrival in Salima yesterday, we were lead by local hand to an oasis tucked within the Lake and rural su... |
|
| | |
 | Cape Maclear to Salima
2008-11-05, Cape Maclear, Malawi. By: saffa2 | | Cape Maclear, a very small part of the Lake Malawi magnificence, is where we found Fat Monkeys campsite, literally situated on the “beach” of this fresh water lake.
We arrived on Wednesday the 5th ... |
|
| | |
| Blantyre to Lake Malawi
2008-11-04, Blantyre, Malawi. By: saffa2 | | On Monday the 3rd of November 2008, Ferdi and I walked across the Mozambique border and crossed into the “Heart of Africa” Malawi.
With no hassles we immediately recognised better communication with ... |
|
| | |
 | Local Village Walk and Beaches
2008-11-01, Kande School, Malawi. By: inky2 | | We have been in Malawi for a couple days. Lots of sitting on the beach, it's very hot and humid here. Worse yet, until today into Zambia, but back to that in a minute. Getting quite a tan quickly, ... |
|
| | |
| |
| | |
 | The Warm Heart of Africa
2008-10-20, Livingstonia Mission, Malawi. By: travelalex | | Our last week in Africa took us through some beautiful landscapes along northern Malawi. We thought we hadn't really seen any rock art so we hired a car and drove out to the Unesco World Heritage Cho... |
|
| | |
 | Lake of Stars
2008-10-13, Senga Bay, Malawi. By: travelalex | | “It’s so calm; it looks just like a lake.”
“It is a lake Chloe.”
To give Chloe credit, it is easy to forget that Lake Malawi isn’t a sea, but an enormous lake stretching as far as the eye can see. ... |
|
| | |
 | Arrival in Malawi
2008-07-03, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: abrookdg | | Hello friends! Happy July to you all! We've thought of you often, wondering what you have planned for the holiday weekend. We've said farewell to Zambia and now we're headed to the white beaches of La... |
|
| | |
 | Expectations VS Reality
2007-11-14, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: herbmather | | Today is our last full day in Malawi. Our plane is scheduled to depart after lunch and we expect to be well sent off by the Malawi church folks at the airport. Tonight will be our second farewell di... |
|
| | |
| Mua Mission
2007-11-01, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: herbmather | | One of the things we had read about that piqued our interest is the Roman Catholic center called Mua Mission. It isn’t very far on the map from Ntcheu to Mua but there is no direct route – and we hav... |
|
| | |
| Water, Water Everywhere
2007-10-30, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: herbmather | | “Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink”. That typifies a little Malawian rural village just after a downpour, turning everything to thick, sticky mud and standing water…but still none drink... |
|
| | |
 | The Bicycle as a Truck
2007-10-27, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: herbmather | | The Malawians are not deficient in ingenuity. With almost primitive hoes, they till up large fields for planting maize and vegetables. After we hit a goat with our car, it was primarily repaired usin... |
|
| | |
| The “Day Off”
2007-10-25, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: herbmather | | Thursday was a “day off” but we had a full schedule without visiting any church or church project. The morning started off fairly relaxed since we were to be picked up at 9:00 to head to the Bureau o... |
|
| | |
 | Changing Times
2007-10-24, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: herbmather | | An old saw claims that Eve said to Adam as they left the garden, “I think we are going through a time of transition.” Lots of transitions are taking place in Malawi. One is a seasonal change. We had ... |
|
| | |
 | A Typical Day
2007-10-20, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: herbmather | | The title of this story is misleading. No two days have been alike on our sojourn through Malawi. However, most of our experiences today were similar to what we had done and experienced at some time ... |
|
| | |
| The Women’s Conference
2007-10-20, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: herbmather | | It was exciting to be part of history in the making! There had never been a conference of the United Methodist Women in Malawi. The new president, Motera (Moty) Mhone, wife of the Superintendent, or... |
|
| | |
 | The Zowe Community Development Project
2007-10-13, Mzuzu, Malawi. By: herbmather | | It was another long drive over rough dirt roads to get to Zowe. The village is about 30 miles from Zambia and may seem like it is at the end of the world. To get a cell phone connection, one must wal... |
|
| | |
| On Top of the Mountain
2007-10-17, Mzuzu, Malawi. By: herbmather | | Monday morning we drove out of Mzuzu on our way to Livingstonia. The first two-and-one-half hours of driving were on decent tarmac roads. An hour into our drive we were driving high up in the mountai... |
|
| | |
| A Mission Church with a Mission Outreach
2007-10-14, Mzuzu, Malawi. By: herbmather | | The Mzuzu United Methodist Church has a temporary building on a plot of ground next to the parsonage. The congregation was less than ten people four years ago. It has grown but many families in the c... |
|
| | |
| The Trip to Mzuzu
2007-10-09, Mzuzu, Malawi. By: Herbmather | | With our new driver, Lester, at the wheel we got a full tank of gas and headed north on the M1 toward Mzuzu. Once we were past the Kusumu (Lilongwe) airport, we encountered little traffic and few tow... |
|
| | |
| The Azungu
2007-10-09, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: Herbmather | | Azungu is the Chichewa word for the white person or for any non-African. And white faces are few and far between in Malawi, except maybe in the Shop-Rite grocery store! One of the delightful serendip... |
|
| | |
| Charlie Arrived!
2007-10-09, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: Herbmather | | The plane was over an hour late due to fog in Johannesburg but Charlie Raisner, Sue’s brother, AND his luggage arrived in Lilongwe Tuesday afternoon. The welcoming delegation included the two of us p... |
|
| | |
 | Steve and Rhoda
2007-10-08, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: herbmather | | Steve Mbewe and his delightful wife, Rhoda, have been our hosts in the Lilongwe area for the past several weeks. Both in their early 30’s, this couple exemplify the energy, dynamism and hope for the ... |
|
| | |
 | Hospitality
2007-10-07, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: herbmather | | How does someone show hospitality? We have learned new ways during our time in Malawi. The people of the “warm heart of Africa” try very hard to live up to their reputation. We are the recipients of ... |
|
| | |
| Legitimacy
2007-10-03, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: herbmather | | On Tuesday we headed out to a village in the Mchinji Circuit. It is the village where the pastor and his wife grew up. Many of the church members are relatives. It takes the pastor 3 1/2 hour to get ... |
|
| | |
| A Dimba in the Dambo
2007-10-03, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: herbmather | | We are enjoying learning a few words of Chichewa while we are here and are getting more comfortable with greetings. We learned nkhuku when we were presented with the chicken from the chief of Vu... |
|
| | |
| Church Growth by Just Sitting
2007-09-28, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: herbmather | | After bumping along a washboard dirt road for over an hour following a two hour drive on tarmac we sat in chairs under a tree. In fact we sat there for most of two hours. This church in the Mchinji C... |
|
| | |
 | Fish on the Windshield Wiper
2007-09-27, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: herbmather | | Ok, so we said we didn’t know what adventures were in store for us back in Malawi, but we were sure they would come. Today was one of those days. It was a “resting day,” between our work with ... |
|
| | |
 | Sue Cooks Nsima
2007-09-26, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: herbmather | | We never understood if the Malawians had a name for what we in the US call a pitch-in dinner or a carry-in dinner or a pot-luck meal. However we had one Wednesday night with the leadership of the... |
|
| | |
| Back to Basics
2007-09-26, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: herbmather | | What do you do when you have 20 to 30 children in Sunday School and no materials for either teachers or children? What do you do to communicate biblical stories to children who are from pre-school to... |
|
| | |
| Back in Malawi
2007-09-21, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: herbmather | | We left the green and flowers of the Cape and returned to the brown before-the-rains springtime of Malawi. It was very chilly when we left Cape Town and quite hot when we arrived in Lilongwe. The... |
|
| | |
| Chakudya – Food
2007-09-15, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: herbmather | | Food is essential to life. Anytime anyone travels to another part of the world, foods are discovered that seem strange. The names given to recognizable foods are often different from the familiar ... |
|
| | |
| Moving Days
2007-09-12, Lilongwe, Malawi. By: herbmather | | We moved from the Bethany Convent to Annie’s Guest House on Wednesday. It was quite an adventure. Many things about the convent were nice but the beds were not just firm; they were very hard! In addi... |
|
| | |
| Daniel and Moty
2007-09-10, Blantyre, Malawi. By: herbmather | | By special request we added a picture of Daniel and Moty Mhone to our travel blog picture album. Perhaps other readers have wondered about these two special people whose names appear many times in ou... |
|
| | |
