A liquid Eden in Malawi |Africa |Ocholeguas |the world is

Despite not having access to the sea, Malawi is practically an aquatic country.The elongated form of the immense homonymous lake - also known as Nyasa and shared with Tanzania and Mozambique - is perfectly embedded in the country's silhouette, occupying a third of the same.

Lake Malawi - the third largest in the African continent - was already a fundamental source of life for the inhabitants of the area when the famous David Livingstone supposed that he was the first European who came to him, obviating, however, that this honor correspondedTo a Portuguese merchant.

Centuries ago, numerous villages of people who lived from fishing in the lake settled on their banks.Today, these villages alternate with some tourist resorts where, those that were once considered "white skin demons" are dedicated to sunbathing and enjoying the different nautical and aquatic activities that a handful of companies sell in thelake.

In tourist places such as Cape Maclear and Monkey Bay - at the south - as well as in Ngala and Nkhata Bay - at the west - the powerful motor vessel engines acall, every morning, to those of the small fishing boats that leave or return fromfish.Diving equipment or kayaks are prepared a few meters from where women wash clothes and children bathe.The Lake beaches show the two faces of life.Overlooles to all this, between areas of dense vegetation and some islet, beautiful colored fish swim in the deep waters of the ancestral Nyasa.Here more than 1 are counted.000 species of cyclid fish, most of them endemic in the area.The African fisherman eagle and the Nile crocodile feed on them, while the huge hippo tries to maintain a reign that every day must dispute the man.

Liwonde, paradise for ornithologists

This reign is unquestionable something further south, in Liwonde National Park.With 550 square km.Semiocults between the typical African shrubs and the powerful trunks of the Baobabs, great telephosses stand out waiting to capture the graceful movements of one of the most four hundred birds that cross the heavens of this southeast Malawi reserve.While species as rare as the red neck hawk and the pel fisherman's owl dominate the sky, on earth and water are the elephants and hippos those that have been crowned like kings like kings.

It is estimated that there are about 900 and 2.300 copies respectively, which makes Liwonde one of the most densely populated parks by these animals throughout Africa.But these two giants are not alone.

Antelopes, crocodiles, monkeys, facóqueros and impalas are usually made with considerable ease.Much more shy and elusive are the scarce rhinoos that were reintroduced a few years ago, being also difficult to capture an image of the few lions, leopard and mottled hyenas that embody the role of large predators in Liwonde.

In any case, Liwonde and Lake Malawi have something that unites them: a spectacular African sunset in which the sun burns a land where nature tries to survive the man.

@davidescriban