We had to leave the truck at the Border post (after leaving Swaziland, entering and leaving S Africa and then arriving in Mozambique all in a few hours). Climbing into the back of a bakkie (ute) we drove across the dunes to the campsite. It took about an hour - with poor old Goodman laying on the tents in the trailer!
Mozambique is poor (average monthly income about $70), slowly recovering from war (still riddled with mines) and ravaged by HIV (about 20% infection rate) and malaria (even more devastating than HIV).
The main language is Portugese, the beaches are spectacular, the seafood amazing and we have pot plants gowing between the tents!
We are staying at a campsite called Ponta Malongane - there's a bar on site but we hike outside over the sand to the unoffical drinking shack where they serve Tipo Tinto Rhum - very smooth, vanilla laced and $10 / bottle.
This is a chill out stop - 6am swims (for those who didn't drink too much Tipo Tinto), potjie cooking (later post), walks along the beach checking out turtle nests, long evenings around the campfire ... lovely ...
I didn't know they had beaches in Africa!
ReplyDeleteyes - it's surrounded by beaches ... really lovely ones ... you can dive in a shark tank off the beach in Cape Town with the Great Whites :)
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