Pumulani

When we were both younger and lived in Malawi, we use to spend our holidays up at Pumulani cottage, which the church owned and rented out. We were both (Jane11 & Er!c) actually at Pumulani together at the same time at least once (possibly even several times) when we were little... I think we have some photos somewhere. . :)

So it was with both happy nostalgia and sadness that I saw pictures of the new Pumulani Luxury Beach Lodge.

Photo Gallery of Pumulani
www.Pumulani.com
NYTimes - 53 places to go in 2008
Pumulani construction photos

The above lodge is not in the same location as the old Pumulani house. This is one of the newer villas which is further down the hill, closer to the beach. At the bottom of the driveway is a huge baobab tree that all us kids use to climb and carve our names into.

One Christmas we (Er!c) were staying at Pumulani and went swimming & snorkeling out to "the rocks" (about 100 feet from shore) when we looked back toward the beach and saw a hippo coming up for air -- Hippos kill more people in Africa per year than any other African animal -- So we made a hasty retreat away from the beach to the nasty part of the shoreline just in time to see the hippo resurface out near the rocks.

If anyone else has any good Pumulani memories they'd like to share please post them in the "comments" area.