Malawi sits in the Great Africa Rift Valley. The map is dominated by Lake Malawi with its palm-fringed beaches – providing most of the eastern border with Mozambique in its length of 570 kilometres.Varied mountain scenery rising to over 3,000m, wildlife at Liwonde Park (one of nine national parks) and lakeside resorts variously offer great hiking, game viewing, scuba diving and waterskiing. This really is the friendly heart of Africa.