Malawi: Lake Malawi

Lake Malawi is the ninth largest lake in the world and the southernmost lake of the Great Lakes of the Rift Valley in Africa. The lake is so vast that the landlocked Malawi really feels like being on an ocean coast – the beaches are sandy and vast, the horizon is water, and the fish is plentiful and forms by far the basis of the local economy (there are more then a 1000 species of cichlids fish in here that are all endemic, more fish species then in any other lake in the world). The Malawian coast of the lake is protected (or at least claimed to be protected) as Lake Malawi National Park. Anyplace you stop in the lake – you can go cruising and exploring the endless coastline.
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