Chef Training on Mumbo Island!
August saw a wonderful week of chef training on Mumbo by the talented Juleta Hirner, who has been training the Mumbo chefs on and off since 2004. It's been a clattering, fragrant roller coaster ride [...]
August saw a wonderful week of chef training on Mumbo by the talented Juleta Hirner, who has been training the Mumbo chefs on and off since 2004. It's been a clattering, fragrant roller coaster ride [...]
In May this year, Kayak Africa put together and supported the fifth Mission Malawi Cycle Tour. Mission Malawi is a biannual charity challenge raising money for HIV/Aids projects run by ActionAid in Malawi, Mozambique and [...]
Kayak Africa had a stand at this year's Getaway Show in Cape Town for the first time in quite a number of years. Director, Clive Bester and long-time reservations person, Bee Roux, manned the stand [...]
Between Joseph Kamanje, manager at Kayak Africa, and staff of the Lake Malawi National Parks, two successful visits by students at Cape Maclear Primary School were arranged this month. The top three pupils in each [...]
Mumbo recently underwent a close examination of its green credentials by an independent assessor to see whether it could be included in a coffee table book on eco-friendly resorts in Africa, and scored top marks! [...]
We were delighted to discover our island on the front cover of the latest issue (November 2012) of SA Country Life this month! The photograph shows Mumbo Island's jetty with our island ferry about to [...]
After the rains and before the busy times which begin in March, we all head out to the island to make everything sparkly and fresh: we re-cover all the cushions in local chitenje cloth, which [...]
In our carpentry workshop a little way down the beach from Reception, a team of carpenters working under Jurie's guidance have built a wooden yacht, from scratch! It was finished in mid-February and a yacht [...]
Five great ladies joined Renee Watson's Pilates retreat in October on Mumbo Island for a weekend of pilates classes and much more: a sunset cruise, snorkeling, kayaking, hammock and beach time... and lots of laughs! [...]
Our efficient and charming SCUBA instructors, Rob Assad and Patrick Phiri, have just certified their six hundredth and one hundredth PADI divers respectively. Well done, guys - that's a lot of teaching and diving! So [...]
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 completed a successful lake expedition covering approximately 1160 km in our faithful old wooden boat, Nankapakapa. The two American guests were treated to three days kayaking along the Livingstone Mountains on the Tanzanian [...]
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 [...]
The latest great innovation on Mumbo Island is the making of home made, fresh pasta in our island kitchen. Our innovative island manager, Mare, managed to procure two pasta machines from friends who no longer [...]
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 [...]
Again this year we redecorated with fresh chitenje cloths - with which Billy Bwanali the local tailor, re-covered all our cushions. We then paid for him to make last year's faded, but good, covers into [...]
We are very pleased to announce that Joseph Kamanje, the charming man who meets you on arrival at reception at Cape Maclear, and runs our office there, has achieved 96% in the Tourism and Travel [...]
In the same way that the Olympic torch is carried from the country who last hosted the Games to the new host nation, so Germany brought (by air, road and sometimes by foot as they [...]
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 [...]