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Mixed forest, granite outcrops, hiking and riding in a refreshing climate
Viphya Plateau
Viphya Plateau is hiking country of solitude and fine views punctuated with granite outcrops. It boasts Africa's biggest man-made forest, initiated to support a papermill that never came.
Parallel to Lake Malawi, the mountains are broken by the low-lying dip where Mzuzu provides a regional centre for the tobacco-producing area.
Elephant Rock is the most dramatic of the massive outcrops and peaks that rise 2000 metres and more along the plateau before dropping steeply down the Rift Valley escarpment. At its deepest, the descent continues for 700 metres into the lake.
A refreshing climate is perfect for guided walks, mountain bikes and riding through the mix of pine plantation forest and indigenous forest among colourful birdlife, monkeys, bushbuck, duiker and occasional sighting of leopard or porcupine.
Blantyre
LakeMalawi Liwonde Nyika Viphya Zomba Lilongwe Mulanje Lengwe Mwabvi Nkhotakota Vwaza
Marsh Kasungu
For 11 years
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