DRIFT Travel Dec 2016

THE WARM HEART OF
AFRICA
by: KERI HARVEY
When David Livingstone first clapped eyes on Lake Malawi,
its surface danced with twinkling stars. He named it the
Lake of Stars, though it's also called the Calendar Lake for
being 365 miles long and 52 miles wide at its broadest, with
12 big rivers flowing into it. It's a massive expanse of water,
waves break onto the sandy beaches and on appearance
it's a vast freshwater ocean stretching beyond the horizon.
'Lake Malawi is quite unique," smiles local lake guide
Johnson Nthenda. 'It's only the third largest lake in Africa,
but it was the first lake in the world to be proclaimed a
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