http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Mozambique en-us Mon, 12 May 2008 13:37:43 BST Mon, 12 May 2008 13:37:43 BST Waiting in the car park that doubles up as a bus stop in Manzini Swaziland I passed an entertaining hour watching a master class in packing with the luggage destined for Mozambique slowly and seemingly quite precariously being piled higher and higher. We'd left the hostel around 6.30am catching a minibus that took us as far as the next main minibus stop and from there we'd squeezed into ano http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/Southern/Tofo/blog-272791.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/Southern/Tofo/blog-272463.html MozambiqueWe wanted to walk to the bus station but hostel manager tells us that it is safe but he never brings anything with him. He wonrsquot even wear shoes and they still tackle him hold him down and search him for money. He says its fine because most of the time they apologize. This guy does not look like a prime target by any means he is missing three of his front teeth kind of looks http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/blog-271846.html After all the visa hassles we finally found ourselves in Mozambique in a little town called Metangula on the shore of lake Malawi.Tourism is at its infancyalmost nonexistant here it took is 3 days of travelling including a very pleasant train journey from Cuamba to Nampula to get near the east coast... the views from the train were spectacular and we had a cabin with fold down beds more she http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/blog-271831.html Mosambik Skrevet i Mauritsius 30.03.08Heisann alle sammenHar vrt en stund siden nhellip men IKKE lett oppdrive internett i Mosambik.Sitter n p Mauritsiushellip ting skjer61514 Kom hit i grkveld med fly fra Johannesburg.Siden sist har vi reist en god del. Vi dro fra Blantyre Malawi til en liten grenseby hvor vi ble i en natt. Brre og Nathan en amerikaner vi mtte i Senga Bay http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/blog-268339.html I do not have time to post a lengthy entry but I will explain the pictures I am posting and the video that probably will not make it due to its size.Gaining my name back Peace Corps style. I believe I explained this in my last entry and since I know that everyone reads every word I write here there is no need to explain it again. That sign is taped to my front door.I built a book shelf. Like http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/blog-268250.html Photos of Mozambique Holiday http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/blog-265924.html Not a long entry today but just a few pictures. I spent the last 4 days in town where my organization is setting up a group of people that will do the same thing as the group of peple I work with in my town. Natually I was called upon to offer my expertise so I relinquished and helped with the 4 day training. At the end each participant graduated and was officially crowned peer educator. A tr http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/blog-260828.html 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 spr http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/Southern/Tofo/blog-260312.html Alright I have received enough email lashings to know that it is just been too long for my adoring public since my last blog entry. I thought that writing was part of what was keeping me sane here but clearly all of you back in the states rely on it much more heavily than I do. Please accept my apologies and take my word that I will do everything in my power to not deprive the good ol' U S of http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/blog-256998.html Bom Dia Quite a crazy last week or so and I thought I would let everyone at home know about it. After a night in Blantyre Malawi we took off for the country of Mozambique. After a 3 hour minibus ride we had a reasonably problem free border crossing. The main difference with Mozambique is that we were leaving an English speaking country and entering a country where Portuguese is the ONLY l http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/Southern/Inhambane/blog-256961.html Greetings from Africa Irsquom alive and doing well. Although I did accidentally swallow about a liter of a muddy African river a few days ago but more on that later. Starting out on this trip I honestly thought Irsquod find wifi hotspots in the hostels we would be staying at and maybe even at the bush camps which are pretty substantial. But guess what I discovered Africa is not like http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/Southern/Maputo/blog-255493.html Even though i'm actually an african I had never travel outside of South Africa in Africa. Shocking I know especially because its so beautiful. At work on tuesday i was invited to go to Mozambique for 4 nights and i jumped at the chance. The boarder was so relaxed they did not even check that the passboards the were stamping actually belonged to the people in the car one person just takes the st http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/blog-248183.html Here is my real address. Sorry for anyone who may have sent something to the other address or maybe i should just say sorry mom.Jimmy Schneidewind PCVCaixa Postal 395Praca Da Bonga N 24QuelimaneMocambiqueAnother entry coming I promise. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/blog-246971.html So I spent a weekend in a place called Ile where myself and all the other volunteers from Zambezia got together for Zambeziapalooza which also doubled as a pig roastapalooza. Ok enough with the paloozas but that is the background for these few pictures that I will be posting. Lets just say although Wilbur might have been radiant it was probably just because of the oil and garlic that http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/blog-244381.html Just a few pictures of what my house looks like. Plus a new creation. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/blog-239559.html No falo portuguesCrossing into Mozambique we left behind empty shops and multimillion dollar bus tickets and returned to a country where English is not the first or even the second language. After the ease of English speaking Zambia Botswana and Zimbabwe it was a bit of a rude awakening to encounter customs officials who could not speak English. Portuguese is the mother tongue here but with her http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/Southern/Tofo/blog-239019.html So I know it had been a while since I last wrote and maybe the one or two of you who read this are a little curious to know what the hell has been happening to me over the last month. I will get to that but first I want to tell you all a story of courage bravery and a person succeeding despite bumbs in the road and against all odds.So if you have skipped ahead to look at my pictures in true http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/Northern/Pemba/blog-237081.html So we've spent the best part of four days over Christmas in the Mozambican capital Maputo. Maputo comes closer than anywhere else we've visited to the lazy Western stereotype of the African city dusty litterstrewn potholed streets choked with black clouds of pollution from cars that should have been consigned to the scrapheap years ago the better older buildings quietly decaying while th http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/Southern/Maputo/blog-230532.html Hmm... for the first time I have spent the last week with one of my subscribers hello Becky hope you got back OK so I had better make sure I tell the whole truth and nothing but...As most of the people who are reading this probably know the genesis of this whole trip was an invitation to the wedding of the lovely Dan and Katherin at Katherin's parents' family estate near Harare in Zimbabwe. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/Southern/Maputo/blog-229799.html Another exciting day...For some reason people like to plan meetings and then cancel them at the last minute. It leaves me and S. sort of roaming around the Ministry for Health with not a whole lot to do but wait until the next meeting. However today we had to go and pick up my tickets for Malawi. Because the whole eticket fad hasn't caught on here in Mozambique. So we've been to the travel http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/Southern/Maputo/blog-229308.html so i just got back from my camping trip thing in kosi bay and OH MY GOD.wow so so so much fun it was so beautiful there. i loved it. it was just amazingthe first like 2 days it was really cold and rainy during the day and i was super bored cause if you cant be outside there isnt really much to do. then at after the first few days it warmed up a bit and it go so beautifull and sunny and thats http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/blog-228719.html So I originally put this paragraph last but I figured I should put it first because I donrsquot think it would ever be safe to assume that anyone who began reading a blog entry of mine would actually make it to the end. I want to say that after 10 weeks in the lsquoBique I still know nothing at all about Africa and next to nothing about Mozambique. The things that I have seen and noticed http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/blog-226697.html eigentlich wollten wir am montag 3.12.2007 den bus von johannesburg nach maputo nehmen aber da uns diverse leute erzaehlt haben dass die busse an der grenze nicht warten um ein visum zu erhalten haben wir uns entschieden am montag in johannesburg das visum fuer jennifer zu organisieren und dann am dientag den bus zu nehmen... der letzte abend in johannesburg war lang und intensiv. wir waren in m http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/Southern/Tofo/blog-226082.html 00 12. The sound of a dentistrsquos drill penetrating my temple wakes me up. Covered in sweat I sigh it's just a dream. Itrsquos not a dentistrsquos drill there are mosquitoes in the tent. A wild hunt begins and ends in handclapping then silence.02 23. Something has awoken the dogs. Loud barking ricochet in the distance as every dog in the village joins the cacophony. A dog yelps as his http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/Southern/Inhambane/blog-225921.html Is it a whale Is it a shark No it's a whale shark Despite its name it is neither a whale nor a shark but in fact the largest fish in the world and we FINALLY got to swim alongside oneThere are only a few places in the world where whale sharks hang out and Mozambique is one of them. We spent the majority of our time in the seaside town of Tofo Mazombique's main backpacker haunt. Our littl http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/Southern/Tofo/blog-225851.html So I don't have any time to make an entry today but here are a bunch of photos. I got my site assignment and I am going to be living in the Zambezia province close to the capital city. Although I cannot say the exact city on this blog I'm sure that my mother or father could tell anyone interested enough to call them. We are done with training a week from tomorrow and I just passed my final lan http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/Southern/Maputo/blog-223703.html I like to spend some time in MozambiqueThe sunny sky is aqua blueAnd all the couples dancing cheek to cheek.It's very nice to stay a week or two. Bob Dylan on the album DesireWell my dear friends Tom and I have spent a week or two in Mozambique and I am glad to say Bob Dylan the greatest living American has got it right at least in part.It is hard to know where to start. We did some of the http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/blog-222900.html Let me begin with a word of warning never ever have anything to do with the Mozambican police if at all possible. They are bent corrupt rude xenophobic and vindictive and that's just the nice ones. They are without a doubt the worst officials I have had anything to do with in the whole of Africa most of the continent's border guards and cops have been surprisingly friendly and not bri http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mozambique/Southern/Maputo/blog-221490.html