Red Zebra Tours office is at Kambiri Point (features on many maps of Malawi) right on the lakeshore in Senga Bay, Salima district - 20 kilometers from Salima town and 120 kilometers from Lilongwe city center. The main focus is on Lake Malawi safaris with tour participants usually observing the fascinating underwater habitat that is the home of the world renowned Lake Malawi cichlids. And the natural harbour at Kambiri Point facilitates a direct crossing in our comfortable diesel vessels to Cape Maclear National Park, a journey of a little over three hours. 

Arrangements can be made to incorporate a four-day three-night visit to the South Luangwa National Park in Zambia. This feature/concept is growing in popularity as many overseas visitors wish to have a lake safari combined with enjoying a quality game experience in this world class wildlife area. 

Another journey that many visitors may wish to pursue is a day trip to Liwonde including various excursions up the Shire river into the Liwonde National Park. Sightseeing of elephants, hippo and crocodiles is usually excellent with many birds and lesser game on the river banks.  This is an attractive day adventure or a two day option incorporating a worthwhile visit to Mua Roman Catholic Mission.  The Mission is renowned for its quality artefacts and carvings and other craft products.

"Sandra Lane"- 36'

Lake safaris will involve one or more of  the diesel boats "Lady Louise" "Lord Justin" or "Sandra Lane".   An ideal group for a lake safari consists of 8 - 12 persons. Basic diving equipment comprising aqualungs (US system) weights and a compressor is available. Certified divers should bring their own regulator, vest, mask and fins. Snorkeling is also a good way for pure swimmers to see the underwater world of the lake - it is best that visitors bring their own mask, snorkel and fins to ensure a good fit.

Many interesting dive sites do involve some lake traveling; for lesser journeys snacks and cold drinks are served. Longer lake trips that can span two or three days (or even more) require meals either at lake shore stopping sites or cooking at beach campsites. For camping days and nights a cook travels on board with the safari group and arranges all on the beach as required using firewood, charcoal or gas braziers. Diesel boats are equipped with lifejackets and VHF/HF radio linked to Kambiri Point.

"Years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.  So throw off the bow lines.  Sail away from the safe harbour.  Catch the tradewinds in your sails.  Explore.  Dream.   Discover." -  Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"Make voyages!  Attempt them...there's nothing else." - Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)

"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.  I travel for travel's sake.  The great affair is to move." - Robert Louis Stevenson, 1878.

"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship." - General Omar Bradley (1893-1981)

"To travel is to be alive." (Translation) Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)

"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today."  William Allen White - American journalist (1868-1944)

"Once...in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days."  - W.C. Fields (1879-1946)

"Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise."   (Sign over the door of  Shakespeare & Co., 37 Rue de la Bucherie, 75005, Paris, France.  George Whitman, proprietor of the shop for over fifty years on Paris's Left Bank, facing Notre Dame Cathedral)

"If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all." - David Livingstone (1813 - 1873)

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"Instead of tying, Seamen always say, 'Make Fast!'"   CAPTAINE JOHN SMITH (Sometimes Governour of Virginia and Admirall of New England): A Sea Grammar, 1627

"At the Head of the Shanke there is a Hole called an Eye, and in it a Ring...To bend the Cable to the Anchor, is to make it fast to the Ring."  CAPTAINE JOHN SMITH...

"To bend two Cabells or Roapes together, that is, to tye them together with a Knot, and so make their own Ends fast upon themselves: This is not so sure as Splicing two Roapes together, but it is sooner done, and most commonly used when we mean to take them a-sunder againe, as when a Warp, or any other Roape is too short for the present use."   SIR HENRY MANWAYRING: The Sea-mans Dictionary, 1644

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"Always along a waterfront, there is a stirring of the airs of adventure: the  young feel it and hear it in the creak of cordage, in the slap of waters that faintly echo the orchestration of the seas.  Where there is the smell of tar, the faint rise and fall of wooden ships, there the blood is bound to quicken, the spirit strain a little at its cables of land-bondage: Hark, hark, my soul, and Beyond, beyond Beyond there lies...?"  MARGUERITE STEEN: The Sun is my Undoing, 1940