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Zingwangwa

Zingwangwa is a settlement within the Malawian city of Blantyre.

Zingwangwa
Zingwangwa · Jeremy Bagg and Maldent
The place

Zingwangwa is a settlement within the Malawian city of Blantyre.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Zingwangwa

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Kamuzu Stadium

    The Kamuzu Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Blantyre, Malawi. It is currently used mostly for football matches.

    3 km · building in Malawi · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Chichiri Museum

    The Chichiri Museum, also known as the Museum of Malawi, is a historical and cultural museum located in Blantyre, Malawi. Strictly Museum of Malawi refers to a group of five museums but Chichiri Museum uses the name due to the breadth of its exhibits.

    3 km · national museum · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mandala House

    Mandala House is a historic site located in Blantyre, Malawi. The building was formerly a residence built in 1882 by the African Lakes Corporation.

    2.9 km · oldest house in Blantye · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Michael and All Angels Church, Blantyre, Malawi

    St. Michael and All Angels Church is a church that was constructed from 1888 to 1891 of brick at the Blantyre Mission in Blantyre, Malawi.

    3.9 km · church in Malawi · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Kamuzu University of Health Sciences

    The Kamuzu University of Health Sciences is a public university in Malawi. It was created in 2019 by separating and then merging the College of Medicine and the Kamuzu College of Nursing from the University of Malawi.

    1.9 km · Malawian university of nursing and medicine · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Old Town Hall

    Blantyre Old Town Hall is also known as Queen Victoria Memorial Hall and Old Boma. It is a national monument in the centre of Blantyre.

    3.5 km · Blantyre's town hall also known as the Queen Victoria Memorial Hall or Old Boma, · Wikipedia

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Getting to Zingwangwa

Airports
Chileka (BLZ), 16 km · Tete (TET), 150 km · Kamuzu (LLW), 262 km
  • Lumbadzi → Zingwangwa
    262 km · quickest by road, 5h 53m · $27–37
  • Tete → Zingwangwa
    155 km · quickest by road, 4h 20m · $18–24
  • Mfuwe → Zingwangwa
    458 km · quickest by air, 8h 10m · $270–400
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Zingwangwa

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Zingwangwa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundFor the budget traveller there are basically two ways of getting around Blantyre: by foot or by minibus.
  • Get aroundIt is possible to explore the entire city of Blantyre on foot within a couple of days, and unless you are travelling to Limbe or to the outer suburbs of Blantyre, then it is unlikely you'll require even the minibus.
  • Get aroundIn the event that you do, then minibuses are very cheap, travelling between Blantyre and Limbe costs MK 350 (as of January 2018).

From Wikivoyage: Blantyre, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Cape Maclear (Chembe)MW

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    201 km
  2. 02
    South Luangwa National Park and MfuweZM

    12 ways of moving, 36 sources

    460 km
  3. 03
    Ilha de MoçambiqueMZ

    11 ways of moving, 47 sources

    619 km
  4. 04
    ZanzibarTZ

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    1,164 km
  5. 05
    Pemba IslandTZ

    7 ways of moving, 10 sources

    1,291 km

If you know how people move in Zingwangwa – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Zingwangwa

Zingwangwa is 4 km from Blantyre, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.