Ibo Hotel

... ) that come to visit the islands. We had booked two nights (Saturday and Sunday) in Ibo Island Lodge, a former Technoserve client and luxury hotel that occupies a restored colonial mansion. Their business is oriented towards benefiting the local ...

... colder. The few showers made sure I stayed awake. We arrived at 8:30pm and I booked into Pensao Esplanade. Yet another terrible hotel. I have to say outside the tourist areas the hotels in Mozambique have to be the crappiest and most expensive I've ...

... was during the walk that the rain started again and we got soaked! There went my last set of dry clothes. Back at the hotel all my other clothes were getting laundered and hung on the washing line. Unfortunately the ladies who laundered them were all sat ...

... trip worth having and anything you have seen and experienced differently, well, you've experienced it WRONG.  (I was admonished for liking a hotel that someone else had had a bad night at once...oh how could it be!)  They had traveled to Syria, ...

... bribe against a tourist in my whole time in Africa. We finally ditched Roberto, or Pedro as we now affectionately called him, at the hotel we were going to stay at. The final straw came when there were two good rooms and a dorm available. He jumped in ...

... worse vehicle, that was basically an old truck with wooden benches welded to the back.  Wooden benches and rough roads are not a good mix. Caught up with emails, skypes and blogs before resting in a hotel room before another early start the next ...

... to get to the 3.5km bridge that takes one to the island. As one can't camp on the island itself we booked ourselves into a hotel and enjoyed a few hot days wandering around. It was easy to daydream and see ourselves live there. Renovating an old house and ...

... Nusa Lembongan. We packed things up and decided to go to the street, with our heavy bags, to find a cheaper taxi than the hotel, so we go out there and strangely enough there are no taxi cars just motorbikes. This was extremely weird since the day before ...

... into while we were swimming no further than 30 m from it. Replaced window with some perspex and after dropping M&D back at their hotel decided to play it safe and put some fuel in the tank as it was running low. Should have watched more carefully as ...