Chelinda Lodge
CEDARBERG RATING
Premier
Overview
Chelinda Lodge is set against a pocket of hagenia woodland and overlooking vast tracts of Nyika National Park's rolling grasslands dotted with large herd of roan, eland and zebra. The forest backdrop to Chelinda Lodge provides perfect shelter for an idyllic escape into the highland wilderness of Malawi.
Accommodation
Accommodation at Chelinda Lodge consists of eight log cabins, each with fireplace for those cold highland nights. The cabins are double storey. The ground floor is an open plan bedroom and lounge, with en-suite bathroom with bath and shower, queen-sized beds, comfy chairs and a veranda. Upstairs there is a viewing area. One of the log cabins is slightly larger, offering ideal accommodation to families with two bedrooms sharing a sitting room and bathroom. The main building has a convivial dining area around the fireplace, a quiet lounge which opens onto an outside deck for sundowners and star-gazing which is usually superb in this remote location.
Activities at Chelinda Lodge revolve around day and night nature drives which explore the rolling hills and patches of evergreen forest of the Nyika Plateau. Bush walks and mountain biking are also very popular with a variety of trails of varying lengths on offer. Three dams nearby are brimming with fish and so fly-fishing is also a possibility.
At A Glance
Mountain biking
Birding hotspot
Rural location
In Pictures
Chelinda Lodge on the map
Rooms
Chelinda Lodge - Standard Chalet
There are eight twin bedded chalets. The beds can be moved together to create a double bed.
Chelinda Lodge review, Nyika Plateau, Malawi
In my first 24 hours in Malawi I couldn’t have experienced two more contrasting areas … at Chelinda Lodge on the windswept high mountainous plateau of the Nyika National Park and the sub-tropical paradise of northern Lake Malawi. The Nyika Plateau probably doesn’t fit anyone’s visual image of Malawi. It’s an area of high Afro-montane forest - pretty rare in Africa - with a landscape of rolling granite hills well over 2,200 metres in altitude,
