Randi has now covered our visit so I will cover some practicalities.

Lodging

We stayed at African Wild Truck, it is on booking.com. A great place to stay, nice location and very friendly staff made our stay comfortable.

The lodge is about 20 km beyond the town of Mulanje. Google maps doesn’t show correct route for last few km’s so a more precise description is required.  The lodge doesn’t appear on maps.me.

Getting there

There are regular flights to Chileka Blantyre. From there it’s round 100 km to the African Wild Truck lodge on the south side of the mountain range. We asked the lodge to arrange transport, but a bit of poor communication made us find transport on our own. We got a car driver who took the job for USD 70 (which is better than the USD 115 the lodge suggested). I’m sure its possible to make an even better bargain.

The roads are good (only a few potholes) and we needed a vehicle to get from the lodge to the trail start the next day - so in retrospect a rental car would be better.

Guide
We recommend having a guide to understand the OUV. We were very satisfied with our guide, good English speaking and knowledgeable. He was arranged via the the lodge, but his contact details are Comestar Supuni. He runs his own company, Guidestar Adventure Tours
Phone number/ whatsup +265 881474895.

Entrance fee to the park is 2500 qwatcha for two persons, about € 1.25.