But For the Sky

Author: Claudia

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Yum: Amarula

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    Within a few minutes of leaving the Kruger, we spotted a sign telling us that The Birthplace of Amarula was only a mere 13 km away. For those of you who are not familiar with Amarula, it is the second most popular cream liquor in the world (Bailey’s is obviously first, and frankly I can’t…

  • The Kruger

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    Our final stop in South Africa was the famous Kruger National Park, world renowned for excellent game viewing. Some people had suggested we spent as long as a week in the park because it is so large and the landscape so varied, but we put aside three days and in the end it was the…

  • The Wild Coast

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    Having had our temporary fill of the mountains in Hogsback, we headed yet again for the coast to a backpackers’ called Wild Lubanzi. Yes, this is the third place we’ve stayed whose name starts with the word “wild”, but this backpackers is perhaps the only one where the adjective is 100% spot on. It is…

  • Hogsback: Living Off The Grid in the Amathole Mountains

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    We came here on the suggestion of Ola, the daughter of the owner of Wild Spirit Backpackers’ (the same lovely lady who gave me an awesome haircut during our stay there). As usual, our Lonely Planet book was brief on the Amathole Mountains, but one interesting tidbit we did learn was that Hogsback was a…

  • Yum: Choripan

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    We came across El Rey del Chori (‘The King of Chori’) while wandering around the San Telmo Sunday market. On offer were three meat sandwiches, the most popular being choripan (chorizo +), with your choice of toppings: onion and tomato relish, hot pickled peppers, and a hot pepper salsa. On a sunny day, with live music on…

  • Now It’s Official (Again)

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    It’s been a few months since either of us have worn wedding rings. We left them at home because we didn’t want to risk having them stolen during our travels, and we thought it would be fun to find rings that we could wear for the year at a market somewhere in South America. After…

  • The Dreaded Mullet

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    Business in the front; hippie in the back. We saw this ‘hairstyle’ all over Argentina. Kind of like their take on the American rat tail. i present you with The Dreaded Mullet:  To see the photo gallery for this post, click here