RURAL HOMESTAY

We open our home to allow others the opportunity of celebrate Malawi’s rural lifestyle

What we do

Depending on the type of visit you are interested in, we offer a wide range of activities in our homestead and nearby area:

  • Village and surroundings excursions

  • Basic Chichewa lessons

  • Fetching water from a nearby borehole by learning how to balance buckets of water on the head

  • Traditional cooking lessons: Nsima, vegetables with or without peanut flour, making peanut butter and peanut flour, sieving corn flour, zitumbuwa and chigumu (African cakes) with bananas and corn flour

  • Tree planting exercise - each plant a tree, leaving a life behind.

  • Learning traditional games like Bawo, Nsikwa, Nguli and the stories behind each game

  • Live acoustic entertainment by Ben Mankhamba and other local musicians.

  • Chingalire Cultural Dance Troupe performances – dances and songs from all regions of Malawi

  • Traditional storytelling by village elders on topics like traditional beliefs, medicines, marriages, foods, funerals, communal gatherings, etc.

  • Learning traditional pottery

For first-time visitors, we recommend you take a look at our Introductory Package. But if you already have some experience in the country, check the complete Catalog of Activities and choose the combination that best suits your interests.

Home made food

Home made food

Local football matches

Local football matches

Local borehole

Local borehole

Enjoying Malawian food

Enjoying Malawian food

Excursion arround the area

Excursion arround the area

Learning how to balance water buckets

Learning how to balance water buckets

Manual processing of food and social exchange

Manual processing of food and social exchange

Basic Chichewa lessons

Basic Chichewa lessons

Learning traditional cooking

Learning traditional cooking

Enjoying local nature

Enjoying local nature

Tree planting excercise

Tree planting excercise

Learning traditional games

Learning traditional games

Learning traditional dances and songs

Learning traditional dances and songs

Group Rooms

Group Rooms

Rooms

Rooms

Lessons on Traditional Pottery

Lessons on Traditional Pottery

The importance of knowing our culture.

Knowledge from our past, puts into perspective our present actions and starts reflection for our future. We want to share our history because we are proud of it as an essential part of our identity and we are excited to celebrate with others the malawian lifestyle. By promoting and preserving malawian culture in our homestead we want to equip visitors with understanding of where Malawi comes so that together we can build a better future for our country.