Old Post Office Tour

In Malawi’s early colonial days, writing a letter and sending it to a loved one set a complicated logistical postal system into motion. While the Home Office might design a “big-picture” strategy for mail delivery, the postal system was at the local level required ingenuity and innovation.

A letter would pass through many hands, like a baton in a relay race. The letter would travel by land and water, and if fortunate, bypass curious hippos and hungry lions. Considering the thousands of miles a letter would travel from Zomba to England, it was a testament to the innovative postal system in Malawi (then Nyasaland) that it ever arrived at all. But letters did arrive and the postal system eventually became a successful and powerful service in Nyasaland.

General Information

• Minimum 2 pax – maximum 10 pax
• Children under 12 years pay ½ price, children under 2 years are free.
• Large groups may be accommodated on request
• Each individual tour takes ± 2 hours including transfers
• Tours may be combined with other historical or cultural tours to make a half day or full day excursion.

What you need to bring

• Camera
• Hat/Cap, sunglasses
• Sunscreen and mosquito repellent

Excursions Include

• Entrance fees into the museums
• Bottled water
• Return transfers from hotels within Zomba

Pick up times from Hotel/ Lodge.

• Flexible depending on guide availability