Back to Salima on a fishing boat in Lake Malawi with Lizard Island behind us. Lizard island is best known the high diversity of tropical fish found in the rock pools and crevices around it and for the unique population of lizards inhabiting its rocky slopes.
Salima, a town in central Malawi near the southwestern shore of Lake Malawi, developed as a commercial centre after completion of the Blantyre-Salima railway in the 1930s.
The town served as the road and rail terminus for the agricultural produce of the entire northern region until the railway was extended north and west in the 1970s.
Agriculture, pulpwood milling, and subsistence fishing are the major economic activities. Cotton and rice are two important agricultural products.
To the east of Salima town is Senga Bay. This beautiful bay is the closest point on Lake Malawi to the country's capital, just one and a half hours' drive due east from Lilongwe.
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10 сен 2023
