Mozambique : Manda Wilderness

The Manda Wilderness Area is located on the Mozambican shores of Lake Malawi near to Likoma Island. The area has a wide variety of landscapes ranging from swamps, rivers, mountains, savannah, forest, to kilometres of beaches with crystal clear waters. Wildlife in the form of birds and smaller game is plentiful. Pristine bush surrounds a perfect white sandy beach where wild dog have occasionally been sighted.


baobab	Cobue Cathedral	kayaking

Nkwichi Lodge
Nkwichi Lodge is on a 650 hectare private concession area within the Manda Wilderness Area and is set on the shores of Lake Malawi on an untouched white sandy bay.
The Lodge has been constructed out of local and natural materials wherever possible. It has been built by the Lodge staff, all of whom come from the nearby Nyanja communities.
Each chalet is unique and has been designed to blend in with the surroundings and to cause minimal impact on the environment. All have private and imaginatively built bathrooms, with baths set in the rocks and showers emerging from trees. The Lodge offers a wide range of activities, such as canoeing on the lake or local rivers, sailing, guided bush walks and trekking looking for birds and wildlife, snorkeling, surfing, kite flying and visits to local community projects. The lodge also organizes camping and canoeing trips in land or along the lake shore.


room	room	lunch on the beach

camping	honeymoon bath	restaurant

Run in conjunction with the lodge is the Manda Wilderness Development Project where proceeds from the lodge as well as funds from international donors are channeled into community development projects which include the building of schools, wells and a maize mill and also improvement of local agriculture by teaching diversification and new techniques. A unique community owned game reserve of 100,000 hectares has also been established. A visit from you to the reserve will help fund the conservation of the area and the wildlife within it. Proceeds thereafter go directly to the communities.

A visit to Nkwichi is an excellent extension to a traditional safari in Zambia or Malawi. It's a great place to relax and swim and snorkel in the crystal clear waters of the Lake and explore inland or along the lake shores and you know your visit will contribute directly to the local communities.


building project	local children	community