Backpacking In Malawi🇲🇼: Cosy Dorm Bed At Mabuya Backpackers Hostel In Lilongwe (The Capital City)

It’s often said that capital cities of Africa are usually not the best spots to backpack through to experience that there country.

Underwhelming and lackadaisical could be said of a few of my prior capitals on that there continent. Examples that springbourne to mind are Porto Novo (Benin), Lome (Togo) and Kampala (Uganda). In Malawi, I also stayed at Mufasa Eco Lodge in Monkey Bay, as well as eating fish by Lake Malawi and backpacking at Cape Maclear and Dedza.

I originally was only going to backpack the sights of Lilongwe on a day trip but eventually decided on a night here. Backpacking in the capital city of Malawi will hardly be a highlight from this humungous continent but I still got to see a bit of this capital, which houses just under 1 million people.

I’ve skipped a fair few African capital cities down the years. By that I mean never even went to them yet was in their country. I byballed Mbabane (Eswatini), Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania),  Kinshasa (The Democratic Republic of Congo), Rabat (Morocco), Lusaka (Zambia), Harare (Zimbabwe), Gitega (Burundi) and Maputo (The Bake). Finally I rocked up to backpack Lilongwe which I nicknamed “The Long Way”. I stayed in a textbook backpackers hostel here. Mabuya is definitely a decent spot.

Mabuya Backpackers Hostel in Lilongwe was only $12 US Dollars a night for a dorm bed.

I was top bunk loyal in an 8 bed dorm where some foreign freak coughed spluttered and farted all night as a COVID loyal freak.

Still I managed to get a decent night sleep here in a cosy hostel despite the COVID loyalist gimp. I had mosquito nets.

They had working WiFi in reception and nearby which allowed social media uploads and Hotmail.

The leafy large gardens and balcony are a good place to chill.

The kitchen or restaurant was closed on my visit but chilled beers of an evening and decent coffee of a morning were possible. The local beer is KK – Kuche Kuche.

Here are the details for booking a room or dorm at the Mabuya Backpackers Hostel in Lilongwe in Malawi:

https://www.facebook.com/MabuyaCamp/

http://www.mabuyacamp.com/

Email:[email protected] or [email protected]
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Tel: +265 (0)99 746 3054 or +265 (0)99 859 9005

Here are some videos from my stay At The Mabuya Backpackers Hostel in Lilongwe in Malawi though unfortunately due to a nasty criminal due to go to prison, there is no sound in these videos: