The Kayak Africa team was thrilled at the nomination of our Mumbo Island Camp as a finalist in three categories at the recent 2011 Imvelo Awards for Responsible Tourism. The three categories were: Best overall [...]
Kayak Africa recently hosted the first of many school visits by local school children to Mumbo Island. This is a new initiative between National Parks and Kayak Africa, with the intention of showing every child [...]
Our drinking glasses on Mumbo are made from the wine bottles used on the island. Lately our island staff have learned how to make these glasses. During the quiet hours of the day, they make [...]
Another great idea for green decor on Mumbo is the painting of the large snail shells found on the island. Marzi Callender began this tradition fifteen years ago when Kayak Africa first won the concessions [...]
On the 10/10/10, 350.org, a worldwide campaign against climate change, launched their Global Work Party. 7347 events in 188 countries were logged on their website, one of these being a clean-up of Lungudzi Cove on [...]
The latest addition to the island infrastructure is a thatch and wood deck, set in a private area of miombo woodland forest behind the camp. Here Renee Watson, a well known pilates master trainer from [...]
On the 1st of May 2010, Abi Brown attempted to swim the 25km across Lake Malawi at the narrowest point, the bottleneck between the remote shore of Cape Ngobo and the popular tourist beach of [...]
On the 2nd May, the larger than life "Grey Beard of African Adventure", Kingsley Holgate, visited Cape Maclear. He and his entourage of volunteers are journeying north through Africa from South Africa to Uganda, taking [...]
