Holiday Inn Mutare City Center

We headed off from Gorongosa towards the Zimbabwe border crossing with a little in-trepidation based on the earlier media reports in Australia.. we got to Chimonio to fill up and get supplies as we were under the impression things are had to get in Zim, however we had not planned on the only supermakardo ( Portuguese for super market) not having power thus no food was to be purchased.. so we reluctantly headed ...

Le voyage au mozambique est penible non acause de la chaleur (c est l hiver), ni a cause des bus (assez moderne meme si on est un peu entasse) mais a cause tres l heure matinale des departs pour les bus longues distances. Ainsi, les departs se font generalement a 4-5H du matin. Et si on enchaine les departs a se rythme on devient vite fatugues.<br>

Meu caminho de saida de mocambique foi aproveitando para passar por cidades onde haviam amigos. Sem duvida esse foi o melhor aspecto da volta. Entre outras coisas porque muitas dessas pessoas que achava que nao ia poder ver mais. Por isso mesmo, por nao ter expectativa de encontra-los eh que foi tao bom. Alem da surpresa de reencontra-los tambem eh sempre positivo o apoio que se recebe, ou melhor dizendo, que se troca, com as pessoas ...

Estou a caminho de volta para Europa. Em alguns dias estarei em terras de "primeiro mundo" (usando essa expressao que saiu de moda, mas que pra mim faz mais sentido hoje do que quando ela ainda era utilizada). Estou aproveitando a longa viagem de volta para pensar um pouco sobre o que passei nesses meses aqui. A verdade eh que ainda nao me sinto nem partindo daqui, nem voltando para a Inglaterra. Ainda nao percebo a volta. Creio que isso eh ...

Next morning the world champion of car packing Amy made Little Red ready for the trip to Zimbabwe. Cecilie and I each had plenty of room in back even though we could not actually see eachother. After a good breakfast we were on the road - for about 100 meters. Here we met a couple of Germans who had gotten their (unloaded) rental car stuck in the sand. Amy drove expertly through the sand and parked ...

04 July In the morning, Helmut called the director of his client firm, who is also a good friend of his, on his mobile phone. He chatted with this man for about ten minutes before the man revealed that he was currently sitting in jail as they were speaking! The man had accidentally killed someone by hitting him with his car, and he had been in jail for the past two days while awaiting a resolution to the case. As he ...

I hit the quarter-century mark on the 15th of May, and had been wondering how I should mark the occasion. For starters, it was decided that I would spend the day in two countries, simply because I could. I had also met a man, Justino, in my lodge in Harare, who lived in Chimoio, which was to be my first stop in Mozambique. Not wanting to spend this important night alone, I had made plans to meet him on the evening of my birthday, by when he said he should be back in Chimoio. I allowed ...

The journey from Masvingo to Mutare was pleasant enough, although uncomfortable. The bus was one that must have been built in the sixties, essentially made from metal panels welded together, with cramped seats (benches in fact, room for three on one side, two on the other) whose backs fell out unless gingerly sat into. The land we passed through was at first grassy flat bush, and then the kopjes started to appear. First one or two of them, then more and more, always stuffed ...

... We descended upon Casamsika at about 4pm where the welcoming committee came out to greet us.... millions of ants! You couldnt put your feet on the ground without having a huge set of mandibles dig into them. Ants cant swim, so we decided to go for a dip in the pool. Unfortunately this plan had one fatal flaw... there was no water in the pool! But the bar had beer and there was free pool (of the billiards variety)! Bonus! The next morning we had ...

... cities (read chaotic) you find other places. Looks beautiful, and you cant really tell that the country is totally screwed up. Of course you get an idea when you talk to the taxi drivers just over the border, but on the surface it looks like the country is functioning normally. The supermarkets seem to be fully stocked, except from flour and cooking oil. BUT 95 % of the population can't afford to shop there. When they make 4-6 dollars a MONTH, then only the basic basic is what they ...