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Published: February 12th 2018
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After a slack day of doing the Panorama route in the area around Hazyview, one place was the so-called window of God, with amazing views of the landscape, they said.
God was not on his best mood and a heavy fog closed his window and gave us 10 m visibility.
I was riding around with a German bloke who stayed at the same B&B as I did and it was fun to have some company and i got to practise my German a bit and managed to polish some of the rust away.
Unfortunately there are not many cafes around, we stopped at a petrol station and bought some water, yes indeed water!
I visited the little boys room and had the smell in my nose for the next hour, not so much fun, especially knowing that my sense of smell is not very good.
Next on the agenda was Mozambique so after a breakfast that was part leftovers from the previous days night’s dinner and some scrambled eggs and toast and some brown tinted water that they called coffee I took off and along the road took fare the well of my German friend Emil.
Emil had 25 kgs of spare parts with him and with two panniers a duffel on the back and a tank bag looked like he was going to the end of the world.
I only have a puncture kit and rely on luck…
The border was a bit of mayhem with the local touts wanting to help you, for a fee of course, they did not hit pay dirt with me.
All of a sudden everything went flat, gone were the undulating landscape of SA, flatter than a super model’s chest aka boring.
When i got to Xia-Xia enough was enough, the hotels were quite sparse to put it mildly, not like SA where there’s a B&B in every other city.
It was getting dark and finding hotels in the dark when you don’t speak the lingo is no so much fun, I did find something and it looked more like one of those hotels where you bring your mistress or girlfriend.
The room was ok, the food was cold, cold greasy chips is not the first item on the menu of international cuisine.
The breakfast had more cold graesy chips and
I told them that there was no way that I was going to pay for that.
Off I went to Inhambane further up north, once in Inhambane I rode around and managed to drop the bike when it stalled.
Just outside a restaurant and the guy who came to help was and is a Dane who lives there and has a hotel and a restaurant.
So he took me under his wing and we went around Inhambane looking at the sights and had a beer here and there and then met up with one of his ex-pat friends and had some more beer, in the end maybe too many.
But we had fun and laughed a lot.
I’m sitting in his restaurant typing this and his is at his bank getting some dollars that I’ll probably need in Zimbabwe.
I left Inhambane with a load of Uncle Sams best green backs in my pocket, going north up past the common border part with SA where the Kruger park is located, as the Kruger park is about the size of Denmark the are some km to be done.
Next town is Vilanculos , a
resort town, in my point of view not very interesting so the only thing to do was to get a nice hotel and hang out, a bit of rain and a bit of sun and just the flat boring costal plains of Mozambique
Nothing to se and the only thing to watch out for was pot holes.
A nice dinner of grilled Squid and some overpriced beer, bed time.
The inn keeperesse told med that the road going up towards the border crossing , Chimoio was bad, she was right, 100 %.
I arrived like a James Bond martini, shaken but not stirred, in places the road was so bad that vehicles went off road just to avoid the road, pot holes the size of jacuzzis.
On a bike you can miss 99% of them but sometimes you just can’t, and to bust a rim or a tyre was not a option, besides which getting a rim job in south east Moz did not seem like an option.
Chimoio was not particularly nice and the hotel was dump with shit for breakfast.
On the ground floor there was a bar that played music
very loudly with lots of bass, my bed was vibrating
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