Mozambique Travel Blogs

Day 3 on the buses and Pemba
Mar 23, 2006

Boss took advantage of my hospitality by getting up at 3am for the 5am bus! My alarm was set for 4:30, I bit more of a sociable hour, but not much! The bus was half empty, what sort of African country had I come to! Stopping in the villages was also ...

Another crap Mozambique hotel
Apr 2, 2006

... 5am to Mocuba. The landscape was all very green and wooded with a few patches cleared here and there for agriculture. Mozambique doesn't have a huge population and many of the areas I've passed through still have plenty of forested areas. I wondered how ...

Spice Holidays...
Nov 16, 2004 (13 photos)

... we've sailed back to Dar Es Salaam, driven down through southern Tanzania, spent a few days on lake Malawi, and transited through Mozambique (camping in the middle fo the bush) to get to Harare in time for the cricket match that they're not playing. Oh ...

4 days wait for the daily train
Apr 1, 2006 (1 photos)

... to stay here for 4 days! I don't know if it's the Portuguese influence (they stayed until 1974) but the towns in Mozambique seemed so different to anything else I'd experienced in Africa. Met Barnaby and Avery for a very nice Indian fish curry that ...

Bribed by the cops in a World Heritage Site
Mar 29, 2006 (16 photos)

7 hours in a bus and then 1 hour in the back of a pick-up to get us to Ilha de Mozambique - Recently the whole island was turned into a UNESCO World Heritage site. We picked up plenty of food on our bus ride from street vendors. Guava was 20c for 30 and ...

The Journey to Tofo
Mar 23, 2005 (8 photos)

"It's a miracle we actually fit in this cab" As I watched our cab driver ram sack 4 packs into the boot. The cab itself was typical, broken door, no seat belts and cheap. It took 10 minutes and 10 Cdn dollars to get us to our destination but we arrived ...

Tofo - Swimming with Whale Sharks
Mar 24, 2005 (6 photos)

I spent my first 4 days in Tofo relaxing and enjoying the beach. We spent our days picking coconuts, bartering for fresh avocados, body surfing, swimming and swinging in the hammock. On the 5th day Ester and I decided to go snorkeling for Whale ...

Inhassoro, Vilanculos, Inhambane and Tofo
Feb 6, 2007

... net and all, then sat down on the same chair for the following eight hours advising backpackers which transport routes to take through East Africa.  I  felt a sense of completion - 71 days of travel, 10 countries and 5000km of Mozambique!  

Quelimane and Zalala Beach
Feb 4, 2007

Quelimane & Zalala Beach 3rd - 5th February 2007   Silva heard of a trendy night club that was supposedly still happening and jumped in the truck eagerly trying to find the place.  The girl (I can't remember her name, but will refer to ...

Week Seven - Tofo Beach Mozambique
Oct 8, 2003 (9 photos)

Day 43 - Tuesday 7 October Try again. Up to dive centre and straight out to Barra Lagoon. This time joined by Beth from the deserts of mid west USA. Nicola gets on much better with skills this time, Peter not so good. Finished by 1.30pm. Tomorrow ...

Moçimboa de Praia and the Mighty Rovuma
Jan 31, 2007

Moçimboa de Praia & Rovuma 29th - 31st January 2007   Silva was a very interesting man.  He kept telling me how he was confused that he'd let me join him.  He told me he had three rules against travel partners: 1.    ...

Mozambique and Boss runs out of cash
Mar 22, 2006

... They had all been disgusted with the transport costs, but when you have a monopoly there is not too much choice. After Mozambique immigration we had another 2 hour wait before we could get our transport to Mocimboa de Praia. The 4 hour trip on the ...

Still not in Australia
Apr 9, 2006 (25 photos)

Viva Mozambique So still not in Australia... Armed with a couple of phrases in Portuguese from Marcel, I arrive in Mozambique. Crossing the border from Malawi there is about 5 kms of no-mans land between the borders which is an uphill struggle ( ...

Nova Golega
Feb 5, 2007

Nova Golega

Maputo
Mar 21, 2005

Before traveling to Mozambique I was well aware that the war ended in the early 90's, but I was still shocked to see the aftermath. As we entered Maputo you could not miss it. In the middle of the down town buildings stood as there exterior crumpled. Not ...

The Islands
Mar 30, 2005 (7 photos)

Well, I was told the islands off Mozambique were breathtaking, but I had no idea. I think I will let my photos tell this tale.

Monkey Bay to Cuamba
Jan 24, 2007

... seeing nothing special on the way.  Now they could head South to the Rovuma river , the border between Tanzania and Mozambique.  They could then see Pemba , Nacala and Nampula and then continue West to Malawi and then through Zambia, Botswana and ...

Back to Pemba and the turds
Mar 26, 2006 (31 photos)

... . Some young kids were selling some older coins from the Portuguese era that we bought. They had Portugal on one side and Mozambique on the other. Later we headed out to an old cemetery, it was during the walk that the rain started again and ...

The Chapa to Vilankulo
Mar 27, 2005 (8 photos)

Our day started early in Tofo and by 8am we were ready to hit the road. The original plan was to catch a Chapa to Inhabane and then the bus to Vilankulo. But we hit the jackpot and scored a ride with the owner into town. The bus was scheduled to ...

Ibo and the masturbating sailors!
Mar 24, 2006 (14 photos)

Made the snap decision to take the Dhow with Steve and Roberto to Ibo. The Swedes had dropped out. I'd wanted to go to Ibo originally but decided I didn't have time. The chance to take a Dhow, something I'd wanted to do also, had changed my mind. Smitty ...

Hunting for Fish in Ponta D'Ora
Jun 1, 2008

... a heavy heart, set off once again for the border post at Kosi Bay, and our journey back in to South Africa. The problem with Mozambique is that there is never enough time. It is a beautiful country with a gentle soul. I love her to pieces. Our time will ...

Week six - Swaziland to Kruger then Mozambique
Sep 30, 2003 (8 photos)

... . Check into Nelspruit Backpackers where there is a chap called Bill who owns a minibus which he is driving to Tofo Beach in Mozambique tomorrow. This is too good an opportunity to miss so we book our places with three other passengers. We decide to do ...

Nampula and Naçala
Jan 26, 2007

... fan. It had been three weeks since I'd left the coast and I was eager to get into the sea.  Naçala was northern Mozambique's busiest port and gateway to some attractive beaches.  It was only 3 hours away but the only direct transport left at 05: ...

Naçala to Pemba
Jan 28, 2007

... night.  I was exhausted by the previous 15 days in which I had traveled all the way from Nairobi to Northern Mozambique, a distance of more than 5000 km, through eight countries, on buses, trains, ferries, taxies, trucks, pickups, private vehicles, ...

Motoring Through Mozambique
Aug 10, 2007 (53 photos)

... U.S. for a visa for about a three hour across the top of Mozambique, we continued on our way. If anything, this part of Mozambique felt even more poverty stricken than rural Malawi. For the first hour, we saw no signs at all of any type of grid; water ...

Nampula Again
Feb 1, 2007

... the boot, while we waited for the truck to be ready.  We checked out the museum, which, like everything else in Mozambique, hadn't changed much since the 70's.  The carver's market was filled with men chipping away at fresh pieces of wood.  ...

Maputo
Feb 8, 2007

Maputo 7th - 9th February 2007 Thursday 8th I woke up at 05:00 after just three hours of sleep and went on a mission to take photographs of my favorite city. I had taken many great shots three years before and wanted to add to my collection. I ...

Inhambane - Tofo
Feb 7, 2007

Inhambane - Tofo - Bamboozi

Sky diving is for pussies, try ...
Jan 27, 2008 (9 photos)

... gets to give all the girls a back rub, which they would not have asked if wifey pooh would have been around. If you go to Mozambique, are close to Tofo and you are a diver: I do recommend the diving shop. It is about what you see but also about having ...

Road Trip!
Jul 6, 2003

I cannot believe I didn't write anything about Mozambique when I was there. Two years ago. Please be informed, this is coming from me in in 2005, even though it's dated 2003. It was our first experience travelling in a car since Nairobi. And after ...