But For the Sky

Month: December 2011

  • Yum: Mozambique’s Seafood

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    Our time in Moz was almost entirely spent on its coast, so almost everything we ate was seafood with either chips (french fries) or rice, with piri-piri sauce on the side. The most popular dishes were camarões (shrimp), lagosta (lobster), lagostina (something between a lobster a crayfish), and of course, fresh fish of the day.…

  • The Long Road from Mozambique to Malawi

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    After three nights in Vilanculos, we were ready to make our way to Malawi. When we got to the bus station to buy our ticket for the next morning, we found out that the bus we needed to take would not be running, so our options were to wait a day or to take a…

  • Weekly Twitter Updates

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    After several days of grueling bus rides, we are finally at the lovely #LakeTanganyika by far the most off the beaten path we've been yet! # feeling a bit stuck right now.the ferry is broken, so plans to go to #LakeMalawi islands canceled. stay in Malawi or head to Tanzania early? # Tried my (Claudia's)…

  • Mozambique’s Beaches

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    After South Africa, we headed east to Mozambique for some beach time. Moz is starkly different from its neighbor; first, the main language is Portuguese, since it had once been colonized by Portugal, the population is almost all black, and the country was in a bloody civil war until the 1990s. Our first necessary stop…