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Vilanculos Slideshow
Top Hotels in Vilanculos
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Dugong Beach Lodge Vilanculos
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Travel Blogs from Vilanculos, Mozambique
In Search of Sunshine in Mozambique
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 418 Temperature : 26 degrees Weather : Sunny...yay! Vilanculos is a small sprawling village about 4 hours drive north of Tofo. We had come here to visit the Bazaruto Archipelago, a number of islands which are renowned for their ...
Tofo - Swimming with Whale Sharks
This is a top pick! 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 ...
The Islands
This is a top pick! Well, I was told the islands off Mozambique were breathtaking, but I had no idea. I think I will let my photos tell this ...
The Chapa to Vilankulo
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Road Trip!
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Sky diving is for pussies, try ...
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Let me tell you some facts about Mozambique
This is a top pick! ... new route to the east. It is a member of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries and the Commonwealth of Nations. Mozambique (Moçambique) was named after Muça Alebique, a sultan. There are still landmines in Mozambique, mainly in the ...
Our Time in Vilanculos, Mozambique
... day of the trip. In order to get back to South Africa, we had to take a very bumpy 11 hour bus from Vilanculos to Maputo (the capital of Mozambique), then grab a flight to Jo-burg. The bus left downtown at 2 am, so the sweethearts Jude and Anna got up ...
Boottocht naar Magaruque
Met een man of zes vertrekken we met een dhow naar het eiland Magaruque, alwaar we gaan snorkelen en lunchen. Al gauw blijkt voor vertrek dat men verschillende prijzen hanteert voor deze reis. Ik heb de uitkomst van het SA/NL stel niet meer vernomen zij ...
More Sand
... off the mosquitoes.. very handy. We bumped into a Irish National who is now living at Zorao having setup a diving business with some Mozambique doods.. nice chap good for a chat and gave us some great tips. His biggest complaint to date was during the off ...
25-26 de kerstdagen
Op deze dagen het kleine plaatsje doorgelopen. En ik kan zeggen dat het hier ongelofelijk warm is. Bijna niet uit te houden overdag. Je moet of gaan zwemmen of in de schaduw rustig liggen of een boekje lezen. Ik doe juist weer iets anders... Ik bezoek ...
Amazing Tevele
... anthem, another couple songs, then Maleco spoke again. The foreigners were all introduced. There was a representative from Mozambique Association for Urban Development. After 1992/93 civil war work with most disadvantaged focus was onn schools. Donor ...
Requins baleines
Quel coin !!! On peut voir 10 requins baleines dans une journée et nager avec. Voir des raies mantas de 5m, faire des plongées incroyables. Manger sur la plage, poissons et crustacés pour quelques broutilles. Donc, forcément, je suis reste quelques ...
Fantastic beaches, coast and islands of Mozambique
... I spent lazy and wonderful days on the coast of Mocambique. 6 days at Bamboozi Backpackers in Tofo and 5 days up around Vilanculos (or Villanculo? Or Vilanculo?). What can I say? Highlights? 1. Snorkling with a whale shark for over 30 minutes must be ...
Whale shark!!
... around at Diversity Scuba and watched 'Jaws' with them. Interesting choice of film for a dive outfit working in the 'shark-infested' Mozambique Channel... Then I went back to go to bed - up early for the chapa to Inhambane in the morning. On the walk ...
Humpback whales!
Yey! No more penicillin! I celebrated by having a Savannah Dry - mmmm... Beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky. There was an en masse up-and-leave as everyone packed up and moved on, most treading the well trodden trail up to Zombie Cucumber in ...
Blantyre to Vilanculos via Chimoio
... was a much needed destination after this hellacious 24 hour transit from Malawi. Ripped off by the minivan from Chimoio to Vilanculos, I was not happy upon arrival but soon became so as I looked at the coast and realized my decision to hightail it ...
Small world
Glorious day. Spent the morning with Hans and Ruadhan - talking to both of them at the same time makes my head hurt cos we are all on different wavelengths. I must stop hanging around with people like this - Vix is the same! I went down to Tofo to ...
Manta Rays!!
Got woken at 7.15am by Hans sticking his head in the door and shouting, "It's 9 o'clock!!" Bastard. Took my tablets for sea-sickness (not that I needed it) and trotted down to Diversity Scuba. The trip out on the RIB was exhilarating - it bounced ...
Back from Mozambique!
... despite the fact that the plane was supposed to leave at 10.30. 2 hour flight, the end of which over the clear blue waters of Mozambique. Picked up by Paul, Angie’s hubby, who helped me get a visa, $31. Go to Angie and Paul’s house, where ...
Argh! Malaria?
... isn't so bad when the sun has gone down. Ruadhan and I sat with a guy from Namibia called Hans. He and Ruadhan played the guitar and sang Radiohead's 'Karma Police'. Bit of a crappy day - not really what I had in mind when I came to ...
Mozambique so far - Damn it is hot
... of me). Did finally get a chapa from Pambarra to Vilanculos, where i am now safely shacked up. LAZING BY THE SEA IN VILANCULOS, MOZAMBIQUE By my reckoning i deserved a bit of a rest after that trip so booked onto a dive course starting the next ...
Super Dutch
... we had been lifelong friends and already made plans to see Brenda in Toronto (she is a flight attendant and frequently flies to north America). Early the next morning (4 am) we made our way out of Tofo and on a bus to Maputo, the capital of ...
My first step in the Indian Ocean
... more about our tour and whale sharks: http://www.diversityscuba.co.za/snorkelling.htm One morning we all woke up at 5ish and watched the sun rise and later went for a swim. We met some great people and loved our time in Mozambique. xoxo M ...
Super Beach and Fish Town
As we chilled for a couple of days in Tofo, we enjoyed some of the highlights. The water is warm, clear, and wonderful to swim and frolic in. A great reprieve from the heat of the day. There is also an ever-present breeze from the ocean that also ...
Note to self: Don't touch Bluebottles!
In the early hours of this morning I got up to go to the bathroom and tripped on a tree root. I can tell you, taking the tip off your second-to-little toe is extremely painful! Especially when the water supply is off so you can't get the sand out of ...
Hospital quest
Feel better again today. Still, my throat is white so Hans and Ruadhan accompanied me to Inhambane to find a hospital. I got up early to wash my hair, but half-way through shampooing, the water supply cut off. I stood in limbo for 30 mins (which, ...
Dancing in the moonlight
There are two guys in my dorm, and this morning I (having an alarm clock) agreed to wake one of them up at 7am so he could go diving. This proved to be more of a challenge than I first realised. He eventually came to when I threw my empty water bottle ...