Enjoying the beautiful landscape of Malawi lake.

Malawi is famous for its nicknames such as “The African’s hearty warmth”, or “ African for the beginners” and “Lake of the stars”. But Malawi is also well-known because of the unique landscape which is extremly beautiful and the hospitality and humour of local people.

Malawi lake is also known as Nyasa lake; one of the largest lakes in Africa. This lake locates in a series of valleys in Africa and is ranked the 8th largest lake in the world, and also the 2nd deepest lake of Africa. Lake Malawi lies among Mozambique, Tanzania and Malawi. Because the position of this lake is in the tropical area, this place has many species of large fish; most of them are freshwater fish, among them 1000 species belong to the emperor fish group are living here.

It is because of the diversity and prosperity of the ecosystem here that the Government of Mozambique made this place a consercation center, making every effort to conserve the biggest freshwater lakes and the ecodiversity of the world.

A lot of tourists came to Malawi just for a day to participatein large horse races in Africa, explore the highlands or grassfields, or simply to observe the effervescence and the suburban atmosphere; but they still do not forget to visit Malawi lake to enjoy its beauty.

Although this is not a luxurious or modern place like the best beaches in the world, it has the strong and mysterious attraction to tourists. Nature has created a magnificent landscape for this place, like a paradise of the lakes.

The lakeview from Likoma island.

Malawi lake has the length of 560-580 kms, the largest place has the width of 15 kms. The biggest river that flows into the lake is Ruhuhu river. Malawi lake was formed 40,000 or 1-2 million years ago; it is also the reason for you to realise that this place is still savage and has barely any human interference on exploiting and investing this tourist attraction. But with this beauty, it still can take tourists’ breath away.

The Portuguese trader merchant Costa Cardosa was the first European to discover the potential beauty of Malawi lake. This lake also has a very romantic name “Lake of the stars” formed by David Livingstone. This name is from the light of the lanterns which were on local Malawi people’s boats. This scene, from a far distance, looks like stars in the sky.

The lake is also named the Stormy lake – because once the hurricane has arrived, it is of extreme intensity and cannot be forecasted.

For milleniums, Malawi lake has provided the main food source for local people, as this place is designated as the lake with largest number of fish in Africa. This is the main reason why a lot of fish were caught and exported from Malawi, but if they exploit this sources in an unthoughtful way, the fish here will be in danger of extinction.

The Government has come up with a project of conserving and advancing the awareness of limited fishing and protecting the mammals which are under threat of extinction in Malawi.

A fish pond with Malawi- originated fish.

It can be seen that Malawi is one of the main tourist attraction of international travellers and local people here. The Malawi people visit the lake in holidays or Christmas to rejoice. Some resorts with high quality are located here. Moreover, those resorts provide you with many leisure activities like snorkelling, sailing, surfing, camping, visiting the surrounding islands, and many other underwater activities and games.