http://www.odyssei.com Malawi, - lately on the site en-us Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:44:05 +0100 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:44:05 +0100 pet@odyssei.com (Piotr Jaworski) pjm@odyssei.com (Pawel Jaworski) http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24704.html Required travel documents for Malawi: passport [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24704.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24288.html Electric power: 220V / 50Hz [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24288.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24029.html Area code to Malawi: +265 [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24029.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11472.html As with major currencies, including US Dollars, Euros and Sterling, travellers cheques can be exchanged in banks, hotels and other institutions. In remote areas, the Treasury Office of Local District Commissioner’s offices will cash travellers cheques. T [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11472.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11471.html Acceptance of credit and debit cards is very limited, although in Lilongwe and Blantyre and in main hotels Visa, MasterCard, Diners Club and American Express can be used. Check with your credit or debit card company for details of merchant acceptability a [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11471.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11470.html Kwacha (K) = 100 tambala. Notes are in denominations of K500, 200, 100, 50, 20, 10 and 5. Coins are in denominations of K1 and 50, 20, 10, 5, 2 and 1 tambala. [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11470.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11469.html Malawi produces a variety of colourful arts and crafts. Items are invariably handmade and there is no factory production of curios. Purchases include woodcarvings, wood and cane furniture, soapstone carvings, decorated wooden articles, colourful textiles [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11469.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11468.html Fresh fish from Lake Malawi is the country’s speciality, chambo (Tilapia fish) being the main lake delicacy. There are trout from streams on the Zomba, Mulanje and Nyika plateaux. Hotel restaurants and many of those in the cities are of a good standard. [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11468.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11467.html Lightweights are worn all year in the Lake Malawi area, with warmer clothes advised in the mountains, particularly during winter and on chilly evenings elsewhere. Visitors to Nyika and Zomba should note that the nights can be cold. Dark or ‘natural’ co [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11467.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11466.html Varies from cool in the highlands to warm around Lake Malawi. Winter (May to July) is dry and nights can be chilly, particularly in the highlands. The rainy season runs from November to March. Around Lake Malawi, in winter, the climate is particularly dr [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/11466.html