Thankfully our hut at Casa de Luis had a thatched roof, so when the fright that awoke us from our brief siesta sent us through it, we didn't sustain any serious injuries. Being woken up by a fanatical muslim, chanting verses of the Quran through no less than a dozen speaker phones at close range is about as pleasant as being woken with a bucket of ice cold water at 6am on a monday morning. If this was our reaction mid afternoon, Mohammed only knew how we'd react at 4am each morning when he sent one of his messengers to lead the days call to prayer. Ihla de Mocambique lies 3km off the mainland of Mozambique and it's ties to Persia, Arabia, Madagascar, East Africa, India and elsewhere date back as far as the 14th century.
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