Southern Sun Maputo

... that was in my face, now floating around in my stomach. Everyone was silent. There were abour 5 of us that had 14 days and not 21....are we all going to jail? I stepped back on the verge of a panic attack while images of the show Locked up Abroad played through my head. "Oh my god, my father was right...I am totally going to be a sex slave." I turned around to look at him again and he was furious. Now the tension in the room has risen...****** off and scared the ...

... 8217;s, of course there&#8217;s a hassle over the fare, but we finally get it straight enough, especially since he wasted much effort and gas through his lack of knowledge of the area. <br><br>Fatima&#8217;s is the original back-packer hovel in town, and things haven&#8217;t changed much. One other place has taken much of their business, but competition is slow to develop. There&#8217;s not much of a business class in Mozambique ...

... leaders!) and the contrasted architecture (communist type buildings, old portuguese houses, messy markets...). <br>Also allowed me to meet Carola, and Austrian girl, at the Immigration office (best place to meet foreigners!).And it gave time to Bo, our friend from Durban, to join us before continuing to the beaches tour. <br>The four of us finally managed to take a chappa, local communal taxi, to go to Tofo, our first beach stop. <br>

... fox karretjie se kattebak toe gesluit word as ons kamp v**laat. Die spreekwoord sê mens word mak. 'n Makgemaakte Phillip is te lui om sy bondel besittings elke ke** in die kar se kattebak toe te sluit en los dit op 'n slag in sy tentjie. Laat daardie middag kom ons met songebrande lywe, taai van die seewat** by die tente na die middag se strandgenot. Phillip se ma** lyf is halfpad in sy ronde silw** tentjie in gekruip, dan bars hy uit in 'n geswets. Uit skone skrik laat val ek ...

... s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, Bush's huge $50BN initiative) money out there, and while I do understand the value of competition and survival of the fittest and somewhere in my public health brain I can see the economic reasoning for all this (though it would be nice if someone would remind me) ... but I tell you, it just felt weird pitching PCI as some great hope all week, when really we're no better than anyone else. Man I hope no one from my organization is ...

... to follow towards the police station.....which happened to be a dark street off the main road. We asked if a bit of cash might sort things out. He seemed to think we were up for giving him $200 dollars but a mere 600 meticals later, we avoided the cells and scurried back to our hotel. We're off for dinner shortly, clutching our passports! PS no photo of the incident are available....

... sign warning to "be careful with the falling coconuts". Sadly the lobster I ordered did not take the promised 10 minutes to arrive so our captain called us back to the boats before our food arrived (this being 40 minutes after we initially ordered so I didn't feel SO bad that we cancelled) and on the way back it was just me and the 3 ladies we had the close encounter with on our boat. Turns out these 3 women were over for the self same mechanical ...

... I pretty much over-compensated for the 20 hour plane trip, 4 hour road trip and 12 hour driven safari by walking like an elephant does to a water hole and i LOVED IT. Sure, it was stupid given the number of kidnappings around here recently and the fact it was clear to me after all the cat calls in Maputo in English "hey baby, hey baby!"...... but it would have felt a waste not to walk that length of the Marginal. And, well...nothing untoward ...

... giving them a tanning. We reached our reef - the famous Manta reef - one of the best dives sites in the world apparently - but the way we had to enter was a negative descent - so everyone falls back at the same time and kicks down - unfortunately for me the 'same time' did not happen and the two blokes either side of me went in late - causing one of their tanks to hit me in the temple - and the other bloke to kick me in the face taking my mask and regulator out. I tried ...

Spring break was awesome. Katie and I bought round trip tickets to Maputo, Mozambique and didn't plan much else, and things couldn't have been better. So we flew through Jo'burg to get to Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. Having confirmed with the hostel we were staying at that Maputo was safe to walk around in at night, we went out to dinner the first night. On our way back, we were extorted by police officers with AK ...