Lukwe means ‘ a place of natural beauty’ and is perched on the side of an idyllic valley, where the Manchewe and Kazichi Falls plunge 80 metres below into a deep and untamed gorge. The view from the deck at the main lodge, where meals are served and dreams are dreamt, crosses a valley with Nyika plateau in the back drop, leads you to Lake Malawi and takes you across the great expanse of water, into Tanzania and the Kipengere mountain range. Lukwe offers tranquil lodging and camping on 5 hectares of Brachystygia and Miombo woodland.

Unusual architecture welcomes you at Lukwe complemented by handcrafted wood and functional sculpture. Meals are served under the stars or near a crackling fire in the colder months, when the clouds roll up the valley. The lodge is solar powered and wood fuelled. Drinks are cooled by the sun and we serve home baked bread and meals from our wood burning stoves.

Lukwe is essentially bush living.

Thatched chalets built from natural materials face the valley, with the sound of the Falls in the background and the view to wake up to. A donkey-boiler provides gallons of hot water for showers. Nature spoils you at Lukwe, the staff does too – by servicing the chalets, lighting kerosene lanterns and log fires at sundown and providing freshly squeezed orange juice or morning tea and coffee to your chalet. Campers with roof top tents find good flat camping sites at Lukwe. Tents with bedding can be hired. A thatched lapa and camper’s kitchen caters for larger groups.

Edible gardens, landscaped to produce a diversity of organic food stuffs year round, carefully designed to permaculture principles by caring for the earth and all living things. The Lukwe Gardens provide training in and a living demonstration of a sustainable, crop producing eco system, through techniques such as water harvesting, soil building, integrated animal and land use management and permaculture design. Needless to say we offer scrumptious food from our gardens at the lodge restaurant. Our organic home grown coffee, roasted on an open fire, ground in traditional hardwood mortar and pestle is for sale at the lodge, to take with you as a reminder of your stay.

Lukwe is home to many different living things – birds of prey, seed and insect eaters, butterflies, frogs, baboons, vervet monkeys, jackals, otters, bush babies and the seldom seen Samango monkey.

Rest weary legs after a hard day hiking on the multitude of trails to nearby Chombe Plateau , Manchewe Falls, Historic Livingstonia Mission , Smallholder Coffee Farmers or choose just to meander about, greeting farmers and their families along the way as they go about their daily lives.

Lukwe truly is an ecological tourism site in Northern Malawi. The concept of integrating tourism, sustainable living, free range food and community service at Lukwe goes back to 1996, when Lieza and friends first set up camp in the bush at Lukwe. Auke joined a few years later and his remarkable skills and love for nature has complemented all that Lukwe is. A wealth of information and inspiration is available to visitors at Lukwe.

‘Come and share our passion at Lukwe’