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Zomba District and Lake Chilwa: Zomba Plateau is unique. A great slab of a mountain rising to 6000ft (1800m), it has vast tracts of cedar, pine and cypress but elsewhere the vegetation is wild and mixed. The plateau top is criss-crossed by streams and there are tumbling waterfalls and still lakes. There are driveable tracks right round the top from which are views of such splendour that they were described in colonial times as "the best in the British Empire". Whether walking or driving, there is always something to see. Wildlife includes leopards, although sightings are rare. More in evidence are giant butterflies and, on the lower slopes, baboons. Birdlife includes the long-crested eagle and the augur buzzard.There is a new road to the top of the plateau. The former ‘up-road’ is no longer used. Accommodation on the plateau includes a recently rebuilt luxury hotel, the famous Sunbird Ku Chawe, set at the very edge of the mountain; and a large camping site. Lake Chilwa lies at the foot of the Zomba Plateau.
Lake Chilwa Biosphere Reserve, Malawi, has particularly rich bird life, with
about 164 bird species specifically associated with the Lake Chilwa wetland.
Its great diversity of natural habitats and land cover types includes the lake
itself, marshes, swamps, five major rivers, islands, a cultivated floodplain
and grasslands. Communities around the lake - a Ramsar* site - live off fishing
and bird hunting, as well growing rice. Please Select:
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