The Eye Malawi                                                                                                                                                                                        

The Eye Malawi is a quarterly magazine containing listings and directories, maps, reviews, tour and travel information plus articles of interest. It highlights everything to do with Malawi, from hospitals to hotels,shops to sporting events and from embassies to entertainment. It is to all All advertisers, Bookshops, National & Regional Airlines, Tour operators, Blantyre & Lilongwe golf clubs & information offices. Foreign Diplomatic Missions and NGO’s. International Schools. Selected Restaurants and gift shops. All major hotels in Blantyre, Lilongwe, Cape MaClear, Monkey Bay, Nkata Bay & Mzuzu and the Malawi Tourism Board..

Articles in This Issue

Lengwe National Park

	By Max del Bufalo. Lengwe National Park, only 80 kms from Blantyre, lies in the Lower Shire Valley. ‘Lengwe’ is derived from a type of impenetrable thorny thicket found in the east of the park. In the 1960’s Lengwe was first established as a Game Reserve measuring 120 sq kms and in 1971 it was declared a National Park.                                                                                                  More
Grass root ownership
	By David Leflar It has now been a full three years since my friends and I came to Malawi with the good intention of initiating a development project in a rural village. Like most volunteers with such a plan, our hopes were high but our experiential knowledge was severely limited. We were not completely naïve though, our.               More
Massage Therapy
	The word massage is thought to have been derive from either the French word ‘massage’ meaning ‘friction or kneading’, the Arabic word ‘massa’ meaning ‘to touch, feel or handle’ or even the Hebrew word ‘me-sakj’ meaning to ‘anoint with oil.’  Whatever the origins of its name, Massage Therapy today can be defined as the ‘manual manipulation of the soft tissue of the body.                                         More
Malaria Mozzies and Mzunga
	By Dick Stockley In the last 2 Eye articles I have written about how we get malaria, what happens when an infected mosquito bites us and the crucial role played by the immune system. Non-immunes get very sick about 8 to 10 days after being bitten and go into multiorgan failure and death after 12 to 14 days.                                                                                                                                         More
The High Lift Jack
	A while ago I wrote an article on winches and asked the question as to their viability. In the article, I pointed out that unless you were a complete 4wd nutter like myself, or working/living in an environment where you are likely to get stuck on a near daily basis, then winches are pretty much a waste of money.            More
The Scottish connection
	John Douglas Of all the iconic symbols of Scotland, the bagpipes and tartan are probably the most well known. I’ve not seen or heard the bagpipes in Malawi, although I’m sure someone will tell me they’re to be heard regularly at Livingstonia or elsewhere.But then how many Malawians know that Malawi now has its own tartan?                 More