Blogs from Southern, Mozambique, Africa - page 16

Tofo is your typical backpacker’s beach paradise. The beach is ok and the beer cold, plentiful and cheap. Just the thing I needed after doing nothing for three weeks. Not much more to say apart from that my headache is getting better by the minute and I left the place without any permanent damage to my liver. It would have been the place to see whale sharks and manta rays but with my knee still not in great shape that wasn’t an option. A short but worthwhile stopover was Inhambane from which we intended to get a bus further up north. I already resigned to African cities being boring but Inhambane had a very pleasant feel to it which is partly explained by trash free wide tree lined streets, the near absence of cars and the ... read more

EN FRANCAIS PLUS BAS MORE PHOTOS HERE Understandably, Jen and I didn't sleep much that night. Caro took care of her nervousness with gin so she was fine, but still, waking up at 4.15am so we would be ready to be picked up at 5.00am was a challenge for the 3 of us. Unsurprisingly, the bus was about an hour late, but we were lucky not to be the last in being picked up and to have real seats, with head rest and all, what a luxury! As the sun was rising and we were driving away from the city into increasingly "African" and somehow also "latino" landscape, we looked at each other puzzled every time the driver would put on a new CD: Brian Adams, hard techno music, Dire Straits...? After 8 hours of an ... read more

i've driven like a fiend straight down, across, through and around and now out my hotel window is shining, strange maputo. it's a city that is still learning how to be a city, the way that africans in general seem to be learning how to be people, people from the television. if there was never a television imported to africa these africans would not know about wearing their hats backwards, or low over their eyes, or about walking with a swing step, or about building and living in cement. everyone says it who has come here, that the problem is wherever the west goes, along with it goes the problems of the west. the question is if the original problems of africa are worse than our replacement problems. the original problems... disease, famine, poverty... they can ... read more

Hi! It's been quite some time since my last post. I've been wanting to add more pictures from Nambiia to the site, but the uploading has failed everytime. So, I can only hope that when I try to add my new pictures from Mozambique, they'll load properly. But now, I'd like to fill you in on what I've been up to. This past week I've been in Mozambique. We had a few days off school for public holidays so a few of my housemates and I decided to skip a couple of days of school and make a holiday of it. We went to Maputo for a day at the beginning and a day and a half at the end of the trip. The rest of our days were spent in Tofo, a seven hour drive ... read more

Happy Easter everybody. We are currently in the beach town of Tofo, still on the southern coast of Mozambique. I appreciate all the messages people send me, and emails, and facebook posts, etc. In other words, I like the attention. We have spent 8 nights here, and are leaving for the capital city of Maputo tomorrow. Tofo is a popular travel destination for South Africans, and right now is spring holidays for both Mozambique and South Africa. Needless to day the place is littered with tourists, though it is more of a destination for families than for backpackers at the moment. Mozambique is not as friendly as Malawi, and also much more expensive. Our bank accounts have survived by staying in dorm rooms and cooking our own meals. Our time in Tofo has been extremely fascinating. ... read more