Likoma is a beautiful island steeped in history. It is the largest inhabited island in Lake Malawi, while officially part of Malawi it resides in the waters of Mozambique and enjoys friendly trade with both sides of the lake. The island exhibits a range of scenery and habitats surrounded by rocky outcrops and sandy shores. The interior is mostly grassland interspersed with a huge number of intriguing baobab trees.
One of Likoma's greatest attractions is the magnificent Cathedral built over a hundred years ago by the British as the centre of the Anglican Church in southern Africa, a wonder of engineering and architecture.
As well as having a large Christian population a lot of traditional beliefs still exist, you can even visit the healing centre which a very famous local witchdoctor ran until his death a few years ago.
