Kasungu National Park Cave (paintings and iron kiln)
The park is known for a cave painting in the northern mountains around Miondwe. The cave is set in the side of one of the hills and has a couple of cave paintings. Not being an expert on cave paintings all they appear to be are a series of parallel lines in red. There are no humans or animals depicted. These are very quickly being eroded away and some say it is the Zambian poachers that are doing this deliberately. The less tourists that come to see them means the easier it is for the poachers to poach without being caught.
To get to the paintings it is a 2 hour drive from Lifupa main camp and the iron kiln is around 1.5 hours drive.
Close by to the paintings is the last remaining intact iron smelting kiln. This used to be protected by a fence many years ago but has long disappeared. This kiln is around 2 meters tall and about 1m in diameter. The exact age is unknown but believed to be used before the park was declared a park around 100 years.
The area around the mountains is quite unusual for this part of Malawi and quite beautiful. Most of the animals around here have all been taken by poachers so don’t expect to see anything in this area.
The park is known for a cave painting in the northern mountains around Miondwe. The cave is set in the side of one of the hills and has a couple of cave paintings. Not being an expert on cave paintings all they appear to be are a series of parallel lines in red. There are no humans or animals depicted. These are very quickly being eroded away and some say it is the Zambian poachers that are doing this deliberately. The less tourists that come to see them means the easier it is for the poachers to poach without being caught.
To get to the paintings it is a 2 hour drive from Lifupa main camp and the iron kiln is around 1.5 hours drive.
Close by to the paintings is the last remaining intact iron smelting kiln. This used to be protected by a fence many years ago but has long disappeared. This kiln is around 2 meters tall and about 1m in diameter. The exact age is unknown but believed to be used before the park was declared a park around 100 years.
The area around the mountains is quite unusual for this part of Malawi and quite beautiful. Most of the animals around here have all been taken by poachers so don’t expect to see anything in this area.
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