Mozambique, Niassa Reserve and Malawi – Aug/Sept 2010

Anything you want to share & general discussion. Images, trip reports and all you want to tell to the rest of the world can be posted here...
Post Reply
User avatar
come-along.nl
Posts: 908
Joined: Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:49 pm
Contact:

Mozambique, Niassa Reserve and Malawi – Aug/Sept 2010

Post by come-along.nl » Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:24 pm

An article, on the very remote Niassa Reserve in Northern Mozambique, was published in the December 2007 edition of the SA 4x4 magazine. Since reading it, we wanted to visit the reserve to experience it first hand. Our chance came this year. The trip would be a solo trip with only Christi and myself. We are quite familiar with the southern part of Mozambique, from Ponta do Ouro, the Maputo Elephant Reserve and further north to Pomene which we have visited a couple of times. We have entered Mozambique via all the border posts over the years and decided to use the Pafuri border post and to cross the Limpopo River close by instead of at the more regular used crossing at Mapai. After crossing to drive the lesser used track on the eastern bank of the Limpopo towards Mapai where we will join the main track east to Vilanculos. From Vilanculos we would drive north all the way to Pemba and then turn west and visit the Niassa Reserve. After that our route would take us to Lake Niassa (Malawi) where we would visit both sides of the lake, Mozambique and Malawi and visit a few places in Malawi before returning home via Mozambique or perhaps Zimbabwe.

Read On: http://www.overland.co.za/travel_report ... t_2010.pdf
Post Reply