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Town or City: Chikangawa
All Year: Yes
Area (ha): 6000
Persons: 2
Category: Organic Farmstay
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Host ID: 15385
Country:  Malawi
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We are a company in the north of Malawi producing essential oils (lemon Eucalytpus oil, Rose geranium, lemongrass and citronella oil) in the middle of the beautiful Viphya Forest Reserve.
Our oils are used in a range of products in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries, and ultimately in natural insect repellents like Mosiguard Natural, that contain no chemicals whatsoever and are effective for upto 10 hours.
CPL is in one of the most beautiful places imaginable and is very committed to its social development in the north through its activities with charity, Expand.
We are now in the fourth year of operations and its still moving along! By January 2012 we would have planted 600ha of Corymbria citriodora to produce our core product, a lemon fragrant Oil that is exported, refined and used in products such as natural insect repellents.
Our distillation plant is up and running and is capable of distilling 5tons of biomass at any one time making us the biggest in the s...
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Town or City: Galileya, Uliwa, Malawi
All Year: Yes
Area (ha): 1
Persons: 2
Category: Backpacker Hostel
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Host ID: 9421
Country: Malawi
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Background
We are a couple (Danish and Swiss) living in the North of Malawi, Southeastern Africa where we are currently in the process of building a lodge. Our idea was to lead a more simple life close to nature so we have chosen a site in the village of Galileya, quite far from any bigger towns. Also it is a very beautiful place on Lake Malawi, one of the largest and deepest lakes in Africa, and with views onto mountains, peninsulas and of course a huge sandy beach! In the process we have become inspired by and interested in natural building techniques which reduce the impact on the environment at the same time as creating healthy, comfortable and beautiful housing. After some research we decided to try out earthbag building, a very new earthen building method which is both easy to learn and carry out and which results in very thick, cool, extremely strong and earthquake resistant walls. So far we have one building standing, the next one is currently being built! We have also be...
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