By Air
The most practical way to visit Niassa is by air. LAM has flights three times weekly from Maputo to Lichinga via Tete, twice weekly to Nampula and weekly to Beira.
Air... from Malawi, Pemba & Maputo
LAM flies to Lichinga Airport from Maputo three times a week to Cuamba twice a week. You can charter planes from Malawi and Pemba Airport at the coast.
Email to reservas@lam.co.mz for Reservation.
By Road
Road... from Malawi & the coast
Lilongwe
Makomo Safaris, e-mail: makomo@malawi.net Ulendo Safaris, e-mail: rob@ulendo.malawi.net Kiboko Safaris, e-mail: info@kiboko-safaris.com Malawi Lake Services, e-mail: malawilake@malawidirect.comMozambique
Manda Wilderness, e-mail: mdw01@bushmail.com Euro Travel, e-mail: eutravel@virconn.comThe waYao, or Yao, is a major ethnic and linguistic group based at the southern end of Lake Malawi, which played an important part in the history of East Africa during the 1800s. The waYao are a predominantly Muslim people group of about 2 million spread over three countries, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. The waYao people have a strong cultural identity, which transcend the national borders. Historically the Yao have been a forgotten and excluded people.
The Chinese government has declared Mozambique as an official tourist destination for its citizens.
This follows an agreement signed in Maputo on Thursday, between Tourism Minister, Fernando Sumbana and the Chinese Ambassador to Mozambique, Tiang Uang Seng.
Now, Mozambique features a list of more than 30 countries in the world that are considered privileged destination for Chinese tourists.
For Niassa there are several opportunities for you as a tourist. You can stay by the Lake Niassa (with large populations of cichlid fish and sandy beaches) and try to feel the emptiness within the wilderness. Or you go with a local guide through the Niassa Reserve (the largest game reserve in Mozambique that offers spectacular scenery and some unique wildlife features that will be an exciting bush experience well off the beaten track). Either you chose to focus on the province or go to Niassa on your way from Zambia or Malawi further on to the coast with the beaches of Pemba.
Famous investors, such as Rani Africa, have started to renovate tourist attractions that were destroyed during the civil war. From the early nineties until today the number of tourist visiting Mozambique each year has increased rapidly from 10 000 to more than 150 000 per year. The northern part of the country sees more European tourists, while the southern part attracts a lot of South Africans. Around the Lake Niassa there are several lodges that can offer good accommodation for you.
Boarding Houses
Pensão Ponto Final at Av Filipe S Magaia-Lichinga. Tel: 2712 09 12
The demand for traveling to different or exotic parts of the world has increased a lot in both Europe and the US during the last few years. With its 2500 kilometers long coast line Mozambique can offer beaches, tropical islands and coral reefs that are still more or less untouched by the human. The province of Niassa can take it even one step further. Some people claim that Niassa is The Last True Wilderness.
Niassa Reserve is one of the most pristine wildernesses in Africa. The vegetation is mostly Brachystegia (miombo) woodland (50%) – characteristically low productivity woodland, occurring on poor soils, where 95% of the biomass is found in herbaceous vegetation. This Miombo Woodland is interspersed with open savanna (40%), and wetlands (5%) - grassy depressions where water collects.
