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Lilongwe Travel Guide

The capital of Malawi, but not its largest city (that honour belongs to Blantyre), Lilongwe is fairly reasonably sized with a population of about 250,000. It's a very green city, to the extent that sometimes you wonder if there is a city centre at all as buildings in the new town at least are divided by patches of grassy land and trees. Lilongwe is divided into the Old Town (to the South) and the New Town (to the North) with the Lilongwe Nature Sanctuary between the two. The Old Town is built around the former village of Lilongwe, while the New Town (also called City Centre or Capital City) sprung up after former dictator Hastings Banda moved the capital from Zomba to Lilongwe. It is very dark to drive around at night as many of the streetlights were destroyed by Banda's henchmen when he lost power, the Government is still working to replace these. The quality of the roads is excellent compared to countries like Kenya and traffic doesn't tend to be too much of a problem at all. Get in By plane Lilongwe's Kamuzu International Airport (LLW) fields regular flights to Johannesburg, Harare and Nairobi, as well as domestic services plus flights to Blantyre, Mzuzu and Karonga. For neighboring Zambia, there are flights both to capital Lusaka and safari destination Mfuwe through the two main Air Charter companies (Nyassa Air Taxi & Executive Air Charters). An international departure tax is charged for all passengers with foreign passports (pay it on the first floor before heading up to the departure hall!), while domestic departure tax is K200. The airport is about 25 km north of town and the taxis charge around K2500 (US$20) for the journey. By car Lilongwe is about 110 kilometers from Mchinji on the Zambian border. Taxis generally charge upwards of K5000 for the trip. By bus from Dar Es Salaam There are two bus companies serve Dar-Es Salaam-Lilongwe direction twice a week. The buses usually lack maintenance which makes the time schedule unreliable. Get ...
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