The unknown fashion of Mozambique...

we are the parties to the august 5 sudafrica
you can read the story of our journey always on this site.
our steps are:
cape town,
head of good hope
kruger park,
blyde river canyon
de wildt cheeta reserve
continue our journey: unforgettable...!
for any info: didodandan@fastwebnet.it

 

ARRIVAL IN MAPUTO..

Alba.
What day is today?
Where are they?
A few moments later realization of loss, Mozambique, but not yet.
We are still on board dell'Intercape from Nelspruit, where we loaded last night, will bring us up to the border through MAPUTO Rossano Garcia is precisely where we are now.
Around us, thousands of people awaiting the opening of the border that will be the 6th Many machines full of everything from mattresses to chairs of plastic bags from bicycles to full of clothes.
Expect.
Finally the "Stuard" station notifies us that it is time to get out and shows us what we need to enter offices and in what order.
No problem, although we still face full of sleep and offices are overflowing, we have no difficulty and we do our bureaucratic process smoothly (only pay 12 rand a head), because the visa the embassy we had to do Mozambican Rome (spent € 25 a head more for his € 8 for shipping and passport photos).
E 'come forward to go away and we must do so on foot, the bus will be waiting in Mozambique to a hundred meters.
We reach all six guards in front of the taking in hand the first passport, the look, we see a smile and say "Italy, compion du mundo!" And we get to sing "popopo popo po po", and there are almost no pass do other checks ... but better than a visa!
Arrived at the bus we see that if we all went smoothly, unlike it was for our means of transport: a truck carrying wood has a reverse nerve and sticking a beam in the windshield like a big leg and has left as they a large part in the crystal cracked now ... free air conditioning, with the driver's happiness!
Finally lifts and repair for MAPUTO.
It 'incredible journey we have just a few kilometers, but the view is diametrically opposite the barracks instead of laughing lamiera restaurants, swamps and scrub instead of well-tended gardens, the men mostly by bicycle and on foot instead of working on pik-up ... insomma l 'AFRICA.
In a couple of hours we arrive at the destination, MAPUTO, and we see that although we do not see as Town-ship in South Africa, the periphery is really degraded while in the alternate modern buildings or banks with offices in casermoni fallen and colonial villas.
We arrive at 07:30 at the end, collect your luggage and we look around for a moment, the atmosphere is new and we thrilled.
We immediately surrounded by people who in return for very little money we want to find accommodation for the night ..
A man shouts "Fatima, Fatima!" ... Our hotel and the follow up to the shuttle that will take us to do a nap.
Centrally located in MAPUTO - Mao Tse Tung Ave, 1317
email: fatimas@tvcabo.co.mz
Phone: +258 (0) 82 4145730 - +258 (0) 82 3070870 Fax: (+) 258 1 300 305

Our shuttle is however a van Bagnarola as open on the back so that it loads "weapons and luggage" on the chest ... at least we do an overview of the city without a filter.
At a traffic light a car alongside us and asks us where we go and we feel we have a wheel on the ground, we say that we go to Fatima ... and yes maybe we are coming!
And there we come. The trip lasts 15 'and we have already understood that the world has changed and we adapt laugh.
From outside Fatima looks like a fortress with guard at the door, barbed wire, guard dogs, gate and double gate, inside the house seems to my grandmother ... discarded sofas, ashtrays made of shells, a porch with a mini kitchen where everyone can make a the, just after that wash the cup that he used and in general a very bohemian. It 'a great accommodation Peace and Love ...
Gigioniamo waiting for someone to make us see the rooms, finally reaches a Mozambique-Jamaica (only for the rasta el'erbetta assume that is never missing), which makes us choose between rooms with private bathroom with 4 beds (225 rand) or with shared bath (180 rand) ... we choose the one with private bathroom and Raffa & Andrea B. , Jael & Andrew F. opt for the other.
Took possession of the room a few minutes we hear knocking ... Jael and Andrea F. have not found their choice of a room (parure of bra and panties attached to the handle of the window) and we decide to divide the room ... (also sincerely hope to save a few euro dividend) ... no problem, the room is small, the bathroom is microscopic but only for one night!
Shower and then on the track, ready to discover the face of this city.
We are on the streets in search of an ATM, a telephone and a video store items ... who knows if we will be happy!
We find the cash machine and withdraw Metical (€ 1 = 33 ± meticales) without problems.
We call for a shopping mall and tell him about twenty minutes of walking ... running very well!
The streets are overflowing people in every corner chioschetti selling mandarins (which we will know well) or sweet biscuits, here and there on the pavement are exposed merchandise, from shoes to Batic, everything that is not tourism.
One thing strikes us, we are the only whites, but here it seems that we do not care for anyone!
Under the building of the shopping center's un'affollamento of vendors of souvenirs and call us, we look tirano, aims, buen precio! As expected in any good market from Tunis Africa in MAPUTO.
Entered the mall is another world!
Cleanliness, order and progress, the path of a country among the most disastrous for the tunnel exit height differences between social and contrasts.
Stroll, but in fact there whim nothing, all artifact too.
We go out and now it is time for lunch.
Diego famelica vision sight with a small restaurant on the other side of the square "PIRATES"
It will eat fish, we hope!
The menu is very appealing especially for the prices that have nothing to do with South Africa (and even with Italy) but find the prices to be higher Mozambicans in general (we pay € 27.6 per couple).
Eat from being sick and all very good.

Return in the shopping center to call Delito, our friend MAPUTO known as friends of friends in Cape Town where he was on vacation.
Delito the evening to take us and leads us to her home, introduces us to his family and other friends.
The atmosphere is surreal, it seems that we know has always been communicating un po 'in inglese un po' in an imaginative improvised by the Portuguese Diego and Raffaella.
Eat dinner together a simple but tasty and we are explaining something of this mysterious country where there are no tour guides or other straight and where we dive, we have almost no idea about what we found.
The situation in some areas is really dramatic, but on the sea where we we should not have surprises, ne diseases (malaria, etc..) Ne other kind.
Delito also gives us the number of some of his friends to TOFO (our first stop) and VILANCULOS (the other step) to get support in case we need it or even just to have tips on where to stay.
They are truly a wonderful family, have spent the war but have a sweetness and a wonderful kindness!
Ten minutes before we were strangers and now we are a family ..
Their love will remain forever in the heart, making us wish they could be reunited in the future ...
Fatima returned to take arrangements for the bus at 5 o'clock in the morning will take us towards TOFO .... The type involved in the management of the Back pakers try making the smart pay the room from 4 beds to 225 rand pair tot.450r ...
Then a little 'we worry ... we are deprived of privacy and freedom to pay more than you would have spent if we had been all in one room ... Something does not return! The Kindly do note that the price list behind it says a room by 4 = 345rand him say it is wrong ... we do not want to have problems, we still have to spend the night and suffer and pay in the room .. but I promise all the advertising on the internet can no longer ...
Alarm clock at dawn and find an envelope slipped under the door with a message of apology to 105 rand and we are returned, apologized and we will return the money?
What happened?
Our assumptions are indeed two three ... 1) the Italian girl who has just moved his suitcases into the room of the type we have put a good word ...
2) Andrea B that was the last of us to parlagli said a magic phrase that has touched his heart ..
3) one of us seeing our mood a little 'black simulated has to make us all happy ...
The truth will not ever ...
In conclusion my opinion about Fatima is: find an alternative ... and there certainly are not the only ones in the area ..
The cleaning is minimal and even less in the bathroom .... And then cleared it all and maybe get to write the thing agreed to avoid future misunderstandings ...
This applies worldwide.

FINALLY WE'RE AT TOFO

WEDNESDAY '16/08/2006

At 04:30 there are two taxi 300metical to expect, we bring in what they call the station but it is only a shed outside, behind a shed ...
Once again we are approached in turn by local ...
We are a little 'suspicious and prevented, in the end we understand that just want to scrape a little money or help ..
We are told that the bus does not start at 5 but at 6 days ... but will in future Mozambican calm.
Opens at 6, using the imagination, a kind of ticket .. We pay 640 mt 50mt per couple with luggage ..
The station is the bus that Oliveras from afar looks like a nice bus, more than decent, but then more you see him approaching in its entirety and you wonder why you love to travel with the local media.
The bus has at least 20 years and is experienced, very experienced ..
Just before leaving the station was filled with all sorts of vendors, from the water, bread, mandarin, toothpaste, hot soups, etc. ..
Women are beautiful in their colors, with their children wrapped behind his back ..
In those wonderful children certainly miss many things about Western children, but it lacks some maternal contact and love ... They have the best without knowing it ..
Are tossed up and down every time their mother bends, moves and laugh without problem ...
Oliveras fortunately is not pienissimo, we have about three jobs per person and convenient travel ...
The roads are often not paved, are full of holes .. across all villages.
Not much in areas where the bus stops and we are literally surrounded by women with children on their backs and baskets on their heads full of mandarins, bananas, etc. ... or kids who are selling cookies, drinks, or dried fruit. .
Given that the journey is long, we too take advantage of this "shop ambulante
Since the trips are on average throughout the day is likely that we should use the bathroom ... but I do not want to dwell too much on description.
As the search for the time being constipated for a pee and a place simply repaired ..
The bathroom is a dark room lit only by a window where everyone removes their waste which will stop where they are placed because there is no water to pull ... the rest I leave to your imagination ..
But one thing I want to clarify: I am not sure that these small inconveniences stop me or make me run away from a country ... We need the spirit to want to adapt ... dive into their world ... and redo everything I did in this trip ..
Inhambane to arrive at 16:00, then where will a ciapas to TOFO.
Retrieve backpacks that now have suffered a metamorphosis: resembling dusty bags, red and sticky seen bags of potatoes and every possible thing that came into contact more and the bus is full of cracks, the poor roads of red he lined ...
We are literally assaulted by hordes of kids and that driver again ... want to join the majority shouts from Fatima by fatima! (No thanks, I will reply!)
PRAIA DO TOFO, Inhambane - Moçambique
Tel +258 (0) 82 4145730 and +258 (0) 82 3070870 Fax: (+) 258 1 300305
Email: fatimas@tvcabo.co.mz
We are determined to have a better, play the card "a friend of Delito" a telephone Nimberto and after ten minutes doing his knowledge ..
He knows the place and knows who to ask ..
TOFO to us with his off-road full of our backpacks and four of us follow him on ciapas ..
At 17:30 we are at sea!
There now seems a very quiet area, no one is upset or agitated to our arrival ..
How to describe TOFO: imagine an upside down T, you are coming from the main road to the intersection with the road of sand are the shacks that serve as shops, on the one hand there is also the market with fruits and vegetables and just below c 'is the local market.
TOFO is composed of a long beach and relaxing along the beach there are 2-3 resort name that certainly makes it more in name than in reality .. and then there are individual boxes, we can even call them houses for their standard,
are very simple, but essential ok!
Nimberto us find the accommodation in one of the houses along the beach, time management DONA MARIA and her husband.
The house has a huge living room with fitted kitchen with all crockery, fridge and freezer, two bedrooms and bathroom ..
In the front yard outside the house with a portico in wicker chairs and a Pratini behind the house with a wire to stretch and BBQ ..
We'll use it!
Since there are only two rooms & Jael Andrea sacrifice is very generous in your living room and slept on a mattress on the floor all the time ..
The house is clean but essential.
After a beautiful and rejuvenating hot shower (no hot shower just by law have the resistance to heat water inside the gargoyles ...) go in search of something to eat ... A little further is CASA BARRY

http://www.casabarry.com/

A small resort with everything and will be our reference point as regards food. Dinner on the terrace of his restaurant: good food and plentiful, prices are not normal economicissimi (eating a bit to pay 450 rand tot: 17,6 € per couple).

THURSDAY 17/08/2006

Day to relax, we have to recover energy from the start of the holiday we were always early if not first to be able to do everything, although I must confess that at 22:00 then on average we were all fired and went to bed thought sleep with a good reading, do not sleep that never late in coming.
We wake up to the nine and let's go to breakfast by Casa Barry, there are very good breakfast with a good variety of choice to European prices (€ 10 per couple).
We focus then diving in search of since the days following are spent immersion.
Inside the house there is a Barry diving Padi 5 stars


SCUBA TOFO tel: +258 (0) 232 9030 cell: +258 (0) 828 26014
email: tofoscuba@teledata.mz - www.tofoscuba.com


It makes us feel good, then exactly at the bottom of the street on the other hand there is another diving: it seems equally good, the prices are similar, but Casa Barry inspires us more confidence and is really just a short walk from our accommodation!
Book and return tomorrow at 10:30 snorkelling safari to see the Whale Shark (250 rand per Person € 29) then to 13:30 we have the first draft (about € 40 for diving) and reserve for the eight days following the the 2nd to MANTA REEF to 30mt deep to see the manta rays that are clean by washing fish people ... like the car wash.
To make the 2nd draft, given that we are all open except Raffa; a must do and pay 40 rand for the examination and another 40 for the fuel surcharge, because the place is a little 'further.
Meanwhile book then we will see ...
The most important thing is done, now we relax, do laundry and organize us for dinner, we decided to cook the fish at home, saving and eating more.
Diego managed to buy 4 kilograms of shrimp from local fishermen at the price total of 300 meters around € 10 more than the price ... Italian and then we are sure they are fresh ..
We buy tomatoes for the sauce, pineapple, papaya, beer, etc. ... and it comes out a good dinner and already think that tomorrow evening ...
We decided to return the help given by Nimberto calling him and his wife to dinner with us ...

FRIDAY '18/08/2006


Loads and we are excited to add to all the animals seen until now marine ...
Barry breakfast at home ... have a call .. PADI made of yogurt and muesly, energizing and great ..
At 9:30 we go diving for all practices and complete the forms and find the equipment for the draft ..
They are a nice team, and everything happens quickly.
Starting at 10:30.
First you must push into the sea (and when I write I mean push push) the inflatable boat stranded on the sand, making help from the top of reflux.
Everyone must drive according to the method already tested the diving.
E 'un po' fun!
Once at sea the raft was launched at full speed or nearly .. in some cases literally on flights' water with its jumps and landings that followed ..
I do not like Gardaland, I do not like the rides and I'm not fun at all ... are the only pizza company ... others are enjoying a lot.
Also my stomach does not appreciate and begin to report its presence ..
What snorkelling safari?
If I had known I would not have done ....
It goes around in search of shark's also the little man on the tower to facilitate sighting and once located the tipa of diving (in this case, Tania) shouts: "Now!"
Everyone is thrown into the water frantically heading towards the place where he was seen ... A problemino there: the animal is not stationary and not waiting for you, then a score that we do are just a few .. i faster and those with seems less ...
I admit are terrible, I have my technique for getting off the dinghy, I'm afraid of the depth of the beasts and bad ... and I just jot down the first time, I am a beautiful jellyfish before ... the world stops at that moment!
Now my goal is no longer seeing the sharks but avoid the jellyfish!
Everything is very hectic ... .. you throw 3-4 minutes in search of whale sharks and then recover, the raft moves and everything is repeated ..
Thrown back to us but I Diego and we are too slow and then the idea of going on to a 6.7 meter shark though somewhat innocuous' hangs there ..
The third possibility Diego and I have already given up, I have the stomach upside down and Diego is not so sure you want to see ... the others are excited ...
We see the shark from gommone pile of water, a great and beautiful manta away from the whales jumping Raffaella ... but just threw himself down and screams ... dating a "medusina" blue filaments with a meter long took it in the neck and remained in silent moments ... are not pleasant for you and for us mostly the help.
Diego off the filaments from the neck, Urtica to turn out, then pour the water (the only thing we have ...)
I now dangle from the water, I proceeded to give my breakfast to fish,,
I look forward to all ends.
Another woman shortly after following my example ... What joy!
Dive two more times and then back to shore by jumping on the water as the sea is a little 'rough, even if the guy driving is good. Once near the shore say they keep you tight and launch the dinghy into the sand at the maximum speed is arena .. again.
Return and is already time to leave for the real draft, I do not have any desire:
from sea sickness and lack of experience ... (I took the patent in June with Diego and Jael and the diving for the exam I have not made other)
Tania understands everything and is very nice, encouraging and reassuring ..
First give me a pill against sea sickness and I promise to be my shadow.
Ok, you need to break the ice for what I paid for the patent.
Diving to find all the equipment ready to be checked and only mounted on each piece is our name. They are an excellent diving.
As a first experience abroad is really ok!
We prepare, we do brefing and Raffaella which fortunately has recovered from the encounter with a jellyfish, I reflected as it is all in English.
Here's the story that repeats itself ... Push the dinghy in the water etc..
Once at the exact point attempt with gprs and dive master with the wire down and behind us.
Tania and another girl control group ... There is a 'outlet and helps me Tania.
Once below are very quiet and I have more problems, I enjoy the draft even though I have yet to find the right attitude.
The waters of TOFO are full of life ... one of my dreams materializes two meters away from me: by leaving a cavity a huge turtle swimming in front of me and quickly disappeared into the blue.
I am fascinated by these animals, but so huge agile in the sea ... I had seen in Sipadan in Malaysian Borneo doing snorkeling, but this is the first to see underwater.
We see so many fish that I am not to list, a nice diving watch from the boys of diving, as we end the air began to turn lifts: 1 Diego is dating with another girl of diving, then later are I with two others along with Tania the last guy with the guide.
Still feel sea sickness while I do the safety stop and while I wait for the raft to retrieve at least with no call.
I am happy to have it done, but Diego and I decide to take things calmly and reject the Manta reef to make another dive to 18 meters quiet .. SSI following school (before you at least 12 dives and then you can take the patent to 39 mt). I want to calm myself with my experience. Thanks to Tania for doing his job so well!
Once at home we divide the tasks, do the shopping because we have guests this evening ... We buy a slice of barracuda from grilled fare and be done with spaghetti sauce with shrimp.
There gasiamo the idea of spaghetti cooked by true connoisseurs of pasta!
Well, not ever buy pasta abroad unless it is from Italy, betting only on Italian spaghetti or rice, choose ....
The result is a careful life of our guests and ask him to dinner, our spaghetti become inedible glue lose quality by the excellent sauce made from Diego.
Raised the dinner with the grilled fish and shrimp sautéed in a pan.
Luckily he likes the fish on the spot since not much choice.
Leaving a beautiful evening, communicating in Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and a little English.
As soon as guests leave my friends are starting to study for the exam is tomorrow in English, thank goodness that we have changed his mind ...

SATURDAY 19/08/2006


We wake up quietly while the rest of the group early to the draft to come back .. manta reef enthusiasts while we prepare for our 10:00.
Again, this is beautiful, we see starfish beautiful and wonderful colors.
Return cooked and hungry, we end all the food we have in house because we leave early tomorrow morning TOFO direction Villanculos ... We do a tour in the local market by buying some memory is a beautiful and then we regret that you have not bought many more things ..
Contract to find that the six ciapas us to Inhambane.
Overnight to pay Donna Maria that every day spent cleaning the house and check that we did not need anything.
Recommended! Pay a total of € 75 for 4 nights per couple, less than € 10 per night per head .. To book here is the phone number:

DONA MARIA 258-25574943.

For more info on TOFO:
http://www.tofotravel.com/
www.TOFO.co.za

IN VILANCULOS

SUNDAY 20/08/2006

From Inhambane we stop to have breakfast by Nimberto and Grace for the last farewell: we face a breakfast and Pantagruel us even more ashamed of our past dinner ... Maybe one day if you are in Italy we can return their affection ...
Accompany us to the harbor where they tell us that there is a boat to cross the bay and meet again in Maxixe ... we try but we do not see any ferry ... scanning the horizon, but even the shadow ... arrived at the end of the pier hidden ... there is a Bagnarola (a boat) used by fishermen already overflowing with people ... Once again perform a miracle can find accommodation for us and our backpacks.
None of our family s'immagina where we finished and what we are doing ... with the camera the whole movie even though discreetly, not ever want to attract too much attention.
We laugh at the situation we are in a nutshell overloaded and float. Once again, our spirit of adaptation is strengthened!
A Maxixe unknowingly make a painful choice: we can see a small bus station (ciapas) and investigate other possibilities too we stop the "first stand" (do not ever perhaps there is a little more favorable choice below ...) C ' ciapas is a vacuum that goes to Villanculos, we contract the price and we then load the backpacks on the roof of the bus ... we sit here comfortable and some of us make wrong choices due all'inesperienza tactics:
Andrea the highest of us went to sit in the back seat so he has more legroom then pair two for each row of seats ... What a beautiful ciapas everything for us ...
Here's the error: the ciapas does not start as the bus at a set time but only when it is full, overflowing even better!
A little further is the real bus station Oliveras, ask!
We waited about two hours before departure and when we have dared protest we have had to leave only for us but at a price doubled, and we stingy by angry we have refused to go through the usual plucking tourists from ... as we all suffer more!
Perhaps now many of us would accept a price tripled!
To not take it for too long, I conclude by saying that the ciapas had a normal capacity of sixteen people, whereas we have found in twenty-five plus two children and two cocks at ... the way they kept picking up people, you can not describe positions taken by some travelers as true ... Andrea F contortions he was in a place the lowest and most of all and locked he could not even move his arm .... The journey took about five hours ... How council if you happen to choose this means of transport: the last climb to choose the seats or behind the driver ... usually there is more space there is a window and when the people down and salt is more likely to succeed every time to get some valuable cm space! I say this from experience, in this journey that was my place.
We paid for this tour "sull'inferno" Metical in 1200 as a group ... when you get to your destination, we have tried to pay less seen the condition of the journey but we have not blackmailed deliver backpacks and once again we accepted their conditions!
We are almost all exhausted, standing by the first six, and this trip there has certainly recharged ... Once again we fell surrounded by groups of kids (call them without offense stink: dislike very wash and deodorant ...) should be used the fact of being surrounded by people who will pull the suitcase to bring you somewhere to sleep with the sole purpose of receiving some coin for bringing customers ....
I do not know whether to blame the tiredness or the environment, this time we are even more on the defensive and do not ask and do not accept help from anyone .... We close a training impala ... Everyone in the circle with the backpacks in the middle!
Read as B & B are recommended by the lonely Planet ...
Children persevere and continue to say a name: "BAOBAB BEACH '

http://www.baobabbeach.com/
082 7315420/023 82417
email baobabmoz @ yahoo.

A bit confused and stressed Diego sending and Andrew B avanscoperta ... turn useless in six dragging behind women, children and animals "or dragging behind Perdon backpacks not light at all ...
Expect at least an hour, the sun starts setting, the kids do not release the socket and studying our every move ... see a biro and want to see a sweet .. and ask ... etc. I think sometimes we are also made a mockery of us .... We always infuses strangers in their world ... ...
In the distance we see emerge over a van with Andrea and Diego ... they have found the right place and have come to take with the owner of B & B.
A young boy is trying: it says the guy who was he to tell his name, we do not like the lies and denies all this time ... for anything tip ... and learn not to scream but only a name to give choice.
The most famous name is often not the best choice ever see Fatima!
We are by Josef & Tina .. made a new by Josef sent by the European community to experiment with new crops in agriculture.
The lodge that was built perhaps to round off a good accommodation
We are in the house three bedrooms, a huge lounge with a television and sofas and a kitchen full of as much of everything for the use of guests.
Then there are the circular bungalow with thatched roof to provide a more simple with bathroom in common ....
There is also a restaurant bar where we serve up late at night.

email: info@joseftina.com
www.joseftina.com
tel: +258 82 9652130
Metical pay 750 per couple with breakfast.


FOR MORE INFO OR TO FIND ALTERNATIVE please contact:
VILANCULOS Tourist Services Tel: 082 7642140 email margi@teledata.mz

Here, however, other useful addresses for housing:
http://www.smugglers.co.za/ 082 770 3720

Casa Rex
023 82048

www.casaguci.com
info@casaguci.com
00258 82 8686540


Blue Water
082 807 5750 / 082 7683400

MONDAY '21/08/2006

Ask Josef, which shows available to meet our every question or curiosity, how to make a trip to the islands ... also we came to here to see the archipelago known as BAZAR national marine park ....
Despite the cloudy sky all day book tour in the DOW (another nut shell sailing with that for some mysterious force of nature even if full of people unable to move and float).
It 'a wonderful mare, with beautiful colors, a few photos can do justice ... the sea is calm and although I am fifona, no better foresight in nature ... get to enjoy the journey outward .... In the boat as we sedie are only the axes of the wooden cross and form benches.
The crew is composed of the driver of the boat and cook ... we meet a crab fisherman from that alone and without the boat as they swim in the sea all the crabs he meets .... The cook will buy six for a euro ... (I refuse to eat it ... I'm not vegetarian but in my mind only a few animals are destined to death ... the pain and I do not I eat them ... my adventure when you find them cooked on the grill as opposed to me to make a big party.
We continue the journey ... to the eleven we make a pause of one hour on the first island,
Benguerra; is almost the classic island postcard: long beach and unspoilt white sand with palm trees behind.
Travelers on the island and we know the two children that we want to sell their toys, to sail a boat made by them that the demonstration made floats and moves well with the wind ... price € 10.
The problem is not the price but the outline, we can bring it in Italy without a break ...
Give the two shirts and a pair of Bermuda shorts ... and we also do a photo ...
In this it is also possible to stay there because they have built a tourist village, but obviously the prices are for tourist and get here the price is not even comparable with our do-tea!
Let us go to 13:30 and landed on the island: Manguerra, certainly more suited to snorkelingk us ... we relax on the beach while the cook is preparing lunch ..
The island is currently inhabited only by local but are building hotels, are beginning to disfigure this paradise ... building tourist facilities along the beach without taking into account the context where they are .... Ok hotel but would be less intrusive to the most suitable place ....
There is a wonderful group of children waiting for the usual tourist gifts from us ... and we learn later, also expecting the leftovers of our food and can literally lick the pots and then wash into the sea ... immaculate and returning to the cook!
The boys devote themselves to tell us snorkeling and fish and a huge amount of life unimaginable, it is a good omen for the dives that we hope to do.
Eat rice with a good tomato sauce, grilled fish, crabs and the poor excellent pineapple ... I am fun to nourish a hen with her chicks, which have adapted to eat almost everything ... even the fish ... every time I I feel a little St. Francis ... the protector of animals ...
The weather is changing, dark clouds on the horizon ... look better take the way back ...
I do not want stressed telling you how I find myself in is like a tiny walnut shell at the mercy of rough seas and wind ... we must follow the current, at least in my opinion takes us further and further away from the shore .... The waves at times come directly in the boat who is washing a shot ... other times we are the only ones on the horizon and then pass in my mind thoughts like: "if we upset anyone will notice our absence."
Some of us enjoy laughing, grumbling, saying that I should not go around looking for trouble adventure ... ok, ok the spirit of adaptation .. but there is a limit to everything.
With hindsight that was not so tragic but I hate any carousel that moves ... and that day the sea had decided to move.
Return at 17:00 and I can kiss the ground ... we paid for the excursion in 1800 mt per couple (about € 28 a head) ..
We go around looking for a reliable diving to book the dives for the day after ... The lonely speaks very well of AQUA NERA telephone ... but it is already full ..
We worry a little 'because we had just decided to stay another night and then leave for South Africa to return closer to avert any unforeseen last-minute ... There are those who say "we can divide us, I want to dive and I will stop a days more. "Who says" I want to see Blida river canyon in South Africa and first childbirth. "
But we are a group and in the end we all meet and we can satisfy the desires of all ... no ... we are divided we decide to stay one more day ... with the promise on the part of us women to get up early in the morning with the hope of finding a free-diving for the same day ...

TUESDAY '22/08/2006

Jael and I are starting at six to find a diving center, but we're not a tourist area and how much it was hard to find a place to stay the same, in fact becomes even more complicated for diving centers ...
The result, however, a good opportunity to see the sunrise, do some nice photos and make a relaxing walk on the beach, we also find some beautiful shells .... One of those still inside with the animal that aggrapperà to life with all its forces and more .. (its attempts to escape, and my prayers for liberals and give it its wonderful sea, were not used to anything against his torturers referred tacerò the name (in the name of friendship that binds us! ), but his death will weigh on their consciences when the show shells collected in Mozambique!)
I know you are not interested in anything ... but a diary is also full of personal memories that you want to immortalize it in time.
I take the path of the story: We ask all local and are sending us to the diving baobab beach ... this is our target: we get that is opening up but we are told that today do not carry out because the diving raft is broken .... To have availability tomorrow!
After breakfast and return all six return to the center to gather more info ... The center is composed of Viki.Ben and their dog and some guy ASKI color ... does not seem bad, then we do not have much choice ... book two dives for the day after.

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Again a day devoted to relaxation and to purchase some ... in the center of the country ... there's an Internet where we book the car once you arrive in South Africa, some of us opportunity to phone home ... etc..
Is there a market for local products ... all very nice ... and we discover that the soap is also available from them, they sell the piece and have many types and with different tastes ... but why the majority of them do not use it?
Delito telephone to the friend and do in the late afternoon his knowledge ... we offer you something to drink and once again will use the opportunity to broaden our knowledge about the area ...
The information on malaria ask ... or if there are just exaggerations ....
He speaks as if he were speaking of ... is just about healed by six months and on average once a year the take.
We un po 'di fifa us ... on six of us that only one has made the anti-five ... we ... we do before we leave and we have informed this conclusion:
there is a vaccine against malaria, but only a prophylaxis (the LARIAM) which is passed by the mutual and that of those who have taken the significant side effects (even suspect a case of suicide) species who have problems with depression or the like ... for six months you must absolutely avoid pregnancy ... etc ... is certainly not a light thing and then wishing you the malaria beaks also ...
There is also a medicine pay € 50 a box: the Malarone (already the name inspires me a lot of confidence), but according to many is more tolerable.
Given that nothing gives you Beccarla us not to opt for prophylaxis behavior.
Feel certain that the kind of tell Beccarla once a year brividino us some passes to the back ... but consoles us by saying: we are at risk for 4 days, for him a life ... its likely to be some more points, we sleep in a house of cement with the mosquito nets on the bed ... him in a hut with a thatched roof. Auguri !!!!!
Of course they are surprised when we explain that in Italy has been eradicated for a long time ... incredible, for they are part of life ...
Six months have passed since our return home and want to reassure you that none of us is sick!
Again buy the fish and Diego try for a good meal even taking advantage of spices Dall'Orto taken by Josef and the leftovers will become even our dinner.
Relax ...

WEDNESDAY '23/08/2006

At present there eight all'ODISSEA DIVING and depart shortly after for diving on the island of Bazar ... climb the raft is less "traumatic"
that of TOFO .... The sea is a table of colors and beautiful, made even more special by the yellow sand here and it arises because the low tide ...
I realize now that this has sure some diving star less is more ... home ... we can define the gommne is the only blonde Viki (with a little 'to stink in the nose) and the guy driving the dinghy.
I now I wonder if she falls and acts as a guide in front, who is behind the end of the control group? "No logical answer!
Just ask Raffaella (The Advance of the group) to give me a look down in (my big Achilles' heel) I feel more calm, also my partner is Diego but he like me is in its third draft and is already so if you can take care of himself ... because it can not count on my help ... at least during the descent ..
This is the crucial moment, all in water: Viki and threw himself with the rope makes its way ... I can not get off me but Raffaella tirandomi literally down after it ... ok ... Viki goes ahead on his road is not the slightest interest in the group: we could also be kidnapped by a giant octopus, one after the other if she would be noticed only when touched her ... has never turned back at least count on the sign or have us ok!
You're quite nice once you land in the sub to all the world ...
The sea is certainly beautiful in this area, there is no mass tourism and commercial exploitation in damage, at least for the moment ...
Diego as usual end to the air first and warn Viki .. she runs the platform and continues its dive ... Diego expects a signal ... and then realize that must go back alone ... I was assigned no companion you care for me ... and moments of panic through my head ... I can not go back and I do not want to be alone ...
Start to ration the air for not finish before the others ... fortunately I F and Andrea along the end and I completely entrust your experience to lift the stay and security ... all ok!
Let us pause and another one on a dive shop.
I am a victim for the umpteenth time in my stomach and I deckchairs on the sand and not move even one step, Jael is the victim of the recall of the sun and sun deck-chairs for a while '.
The other is to the discovery of the arrancar ... climbing to the top of the large sand dune that gives the idea of being in the desert, but the top opens the show the rest of the island: an unsuspected garden full of trees, palms and lakes ... breath-taking, while the other part the colors of the sea, sky and the beach create a spectacle no less exciting!
But I want to go back to talk about the "nice" Viki and his diving center.
Nobody had taken the trouble to inform us that our past we would have lunch on a desert island ... otherwise we would have brought something edible!
The blonde eating her two sandwiches, while we suffer from hunger.
With everything you've done to pay the two dives you could not go to any sub a package of something to put on the teeth or two mandarins at the local market do not cost anything?
Spending 630 rand a head for the two dives to 60 rand to the entrance to the park, tot around € 80 a head.
The second dive was a little 'more disappointing from a marine environment, we see a much, but it is nice being inside the aquarium and not over ... we are part of the world!
Return after fifteen affamatissimi and catapult us to the restaurant of the Baobab Beach ... not bad even if they are a little 'long in service ...
Who eat fish, meat me about a pizza ... not bad pay for a pair 400m (€ 12.5)
At each evening preparing the bag for the transfer.
We Oliveras legendary coach of the three in the morning.
Before going to sleep Josef pay that over and everything was offered, or rather did not have much choice, to accompany us to the bus stop at that crazy night for free in exchange for good publicity on the internet.
B & B recommended!
4 nights pay 750 rand or 3000 Metical that are translated into € 23.4 per night per room ... maybe you want something less? go to the Baobab Beach huts of straw, perhaps more romantic, but most certainly at the mercy of mosquitoes ...

THURSDAY '24/08/2006

Alarm for un'orario absurd and once again, created by the passing of Josef in a bus station ghost, we get to wait.
Immediately someone approached us and told us that he left the bus before, others after two hours ... which is better than to stop taking us a little ... 'but we doubt not to give up ... we understand that after all the competition they want attract more customers as possible, we expect Oliveras betraying him ... not like we did to same for any ciapas course ... if you try to imagine the scene:
Increased from just three of the night, six young people all in white circle with the backpacks at the center expect cold and axons un'autobus means that perhaps has already started or is delayed for a few hours ... is not a scene properly allegra .... but we also survived this!
Oliveras has come to half past four and loaded our backpacks (already prepared to dirty for the umpteenth time) with its own ... once we appropriate all the space possible.
From those parts is called un'autobus luxury, in Italy we call it a catorce to be scrapped, but in this case we have "loved", arrived and led us to use ... we will not make as sardines as in ciapas and treated as people.
The controller of tickets waiting to see us asleep so we can all wake up with the excuse to give us breakfast ... a Mandarin-to-head .... And then again ... there it is sleeping all that back to ask to check the tickets that he gave us at the start ... exquisite and friendly person ... Again stops in "autogril" ... traveling and meeting with their bathrooms ....
We arrived at the starting point of our trip to Mozambique in MAPUTO that is, to nineteen in the evening ... a journey that lasted about 14 hours to 400 km, between holes, laughs, photos, mandarin, books, dried fruit, Jun flights from the seat causes a hole too deep and the excellent suspension dell'autobus ...
Paid travel 900 meters (32.5 € per couple).
Journey that will remain within us like the sea that we have seen, the landscapes and people that we know ...

This is the story of our adventure in Mozambique, to find a less technical, less detailed, but that tells only the feelings and emotions try to Jael about this wonderful country, you can read:

http://www.viaggierelax.it/viaggi/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=142&Itemid=15



The day after we take the bus from MAPUTO to Nespruit dell'Intercape ... .. We are back in South Africa!