Category: Mozambique

  • Best Of Southern and Eastern Africa

    Our three and a half months in Africa were extremely varied: we marveled at some beautiful landscapes, had some wonderful wildlife experiences, got to travel with friends, summited a mountain, endured some really rough and uncomfortable overland travel, dealt with some frustrating logisitcal setbacks, and overcame a bit of a “what are our goals here?”…

  • TIA: This is Africa

    A boy walks up to your bus trying to sell you a mousetrap, razor blades, wallets, and watering cans. A woman walks down the highway carrying an infant on her back and the largest sack of potatoes I’ve ever seen on her head. A truck drives by with several large, dead fish hanging off the…

  • Yum: Mozambique’s Seafood

    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

    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…

  • Mozambique’s Beaches

    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…