Watery journeys in far-flung places

A ferry across Lake Malawi Lake Malawi is the country’s “pride and joy – a dazzling inland sea that demands attention”, says Amelia Duggan in National Geographic. David Livingstone named it “the Lake of Stars” when he first saw the fishermen’s lanterns glinting on the water at night, and it is still a life source for the many villages dotted along its banks. The MV Ilala, a ferry built in Glasgow in 1949, has cruised the “vast length of freshwater” between Monkey Bay and Chilumba for almost 70 years, taking in a dozen ports twice weekly. There are only six cabins, so most passengers make themselves comfortable on the upper deck. The lake takes on a different character at various sections: some marshy and filled with hippos and crocodiles, others “tranquil…

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