The Eye Magazine - The Insider's Guide to Malawi

The Eye 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.

Lake Malawi, the biologically most diverse freshwater ecosystem known to man, approximately 600 km long and at some locations, 80 km wide. It has a maximum depth of 700 meters and its surface lies about 470 meters above sea level. Most of the lake (the western and southern part) belongs to Malawi.  Read More

For many years now the Lilongwe Nature Sanctuary has been a controversial resource with the care of the area and its captive animals having being left in the hands of an under-resourced National Parks and Wildlife Service and a group of local good hearted citizens.The facility was initially developed to provide an important environmental resource to those individuals. Read More

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When I was at medical school, the hottest issue for young mothers was potty training. Whenever a midwife, GP or paediatrician held a child care course, the first subject they wanted to discuss was how to let a baby poop. Mothers had been convinced by various magazine child psychology articles that, if they got it wrong. Read More

The grape - To begin to understand how any wine is made we must first look at the composition of the grape. If you take any grape - black, red or green - and slice it through the middle it looks much the same: The stalk is woody and full of a substance called tannin. Tannin is a preservative with a bitter flavour. The skin - is covered in a whitish bloom which is a dusting of wild yeasts and bacteria. The skin itself contains.   Read More

In the west of the central region, bordering Zambia, is Kasungu National Park, an 800 sq mile (2100 sq km) area of natural woodland and bush with occasional stretches of more open grass. Poaching has reduced the number of some species of animals but, contrary to rumours in some quarters, there is still plenty of wildlife to be seen.  Read More