Dany & Diego Di
Alba.
What day is it today?
Where am I?
Moments of loss has now been implemented in Mozambique, in fact, not yet. We are still on the bus that
dell'Intercape from Nelspruit, where we have shipped last night, will take us across the border to Maputo Rossano Garcia precisely where we are now.
thousands of people around us who are waiting for the opening of the border which will take place at 6. Many have their cars overloaded with everything from mattresses in plastic chairs, from bicycles to bags packed with clothes.
wait. Finally
the "Stuart" tells us that the bus is now going down there and show you what we have to enter offices and in what order.
No problem, although we still faces full of sleep and the offices are crowded, we do not have any difficulty and make our bureaucracy smoothly (only pay 12 rand per person), because we did a visa to do ' Mozambican Embassy in Rome (spent 25 € per person for visa for more than € 8 P passports and photo).
E 'come forward to moving away and we do walk, the bus will be waiting in Mozambique a few hundred meters.
We get all six in front of the guards taking the first passport in hand, look at him, look at us and say, smiling, "Italy, compion du mundo!" And we will get to sing "little bit popopo population," and let us pass without almost do other checks ... but better than a saw!
At the bus we see that if we all went smoothly, unlike it was for our means of transport: a truck carrying wood did a reverse nerve and stuck in the windshield as big as a beam and a leg left impaled a large part in the crystal cracked ... day free air conditioning with driver's happiness!
finally go back to Maputo and repair.
It 's amazing, we covered just a few kilometers, but the view is diametrically opposite shacks made of sheet metal instead of laughing restaurants, marshes and weeds instead of manicured gardens, especially men on bicycles and on foot instead of workers on short pik-up ... Africa.
In a couple of hours we arrive at your destination, Maputo and we realize that although we do not see how Town-ship in South Africa, the periphery is very degraded and modern buildings in the center alternate with banks or offices in the colonial houses and tenements forfeited.
come to an end at 07:30, picking up your luggage and we look around for a moment, the atmosphere is there and new thrills.
We are immediately surrounded by people in exchange for very little money it takes to find accommodation for the night ..
A man shouts, "Fatima, Fatima!" ... And we follow up our hotel to the shuttle that will take us to finally 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 1300305
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The shuttle, however, is a tub in the small open at the back so that we charge "bag and baggage" on the box ... at least we do
an overview of the city without a filter. a motorbike at a traffic light alongside us and asks us where we go and we feel that we have a flat tire, we tell him we're going to Fatima but yes ... maybe you can find it!
And we get there. The trip lasts 15 'and have already realized that the world has changed: we laugh and we adapt.
From outside Fatima looks like a fortress with guard at the gate, barbed wire, guard dogs, electric gate and double gate, inside it seems my grandmother's house ... sofas broken, ashtrays made of seashells, a porch with a mini kitchen where everyone can do a tea, just wash the cup after it has used and general atmosphere very bohemian. It 's a great accommodation Peace and Love ...
hamming waiting for someone to make us see the rooms, finally comes a Jamaican-mozambique (only for rasta el'erbetta assume that you do not miss ever) that makes us choose between rooms with bathroom suite with 4 beds (225 rand) or with shared bathroom (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 a knock ... and Jael Andrea F. have not found the room to their liking (parure of bra and panties attached to the handle of the window) and decide to share a room ... (we hope honestly even 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 walk the streets in search of an ATM, a telephone and a video shop ... who knows if we will be pleased!
We find an ATM and withdraw Metical (1 € = ± 33 meticales) without problems.
a shopping mall and ask him to tell a twenty minute walk ... well on its way!
The streets are overflowing with people in every corner kiosks selling mandarins (which we will learn to know well) candy or cookies here and there on the sidewalk are exposed merchandise, from shoes to Batic, everything is not tourism. One thing hits us, we are the only white, but here it seems that if you take care of anyone!
Under the building of the mall is crowded with souvenir sellers and all they call us, we roll look, aim, buen precio! As you would expect in any good African market from Tunis to Maputo.
entering the mall is another world!
Cleanliness, order and progress, the path of a country among the most devastated by the tunnel exit height differences between social and counterintuitive.
swan, but in fact there whim anyway, all too artificial. We go out and
now it's time for lunch.
Diego sighted vision with a ravenous restaurant across 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 (let alone with Italy), but we discover to be higher than the prices Mozambicans in general (we pay 27, 6 € per couple).
eat from being sick and all very good.
fall within the mall to call Delito, our friend of friends of friends known from Maputo to Cape Town where he was on vacation. The evening
Delito comes to pick us and brings us to his house, introduces us to his family and friends.
The atmosphere is surreal, there seems to always know
, let's talk a bit 'in English a bit' in a Portuguese imaginative improvised by Diego and Raffaella. We eat dinner together a simple but tasty and we do explain some of this mysterious country where there are no tour guides or other tips and where we dive, we have almost no idea about what we found.
The situation in some areas is really dramatic, but the sea that we will, we should not be surprised, nor of diseases (malaria etc.). It's the other kind.
Delito also gives us the number of some of his friends in Tofo (ns the first stage) and Vilanculos (the other step) to get support if we had need or just to have tips on where to sleep.
They are truly a fantastic family, spent the war but have a wonderful sweetness and a kindness!
Ten minutes before we were strangers and now we are a family ..
Their love will remain forever in the heart, making us want to embrace them in the future ...
Fatima returned from making 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 test to be clever by making us pay for the room 4 bed 225 rand per couple ... tot.450r
Then a little 'we worry ... we are deprived of privacy and freedom to pay more than we if we had been spent in each room ... Something does not come back!! We make kindly note that the price list says a room behind him by 4 = 345rand he says 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 publicity on the internet can be ... more negative
Rise early and find an envelope slipped under the door with a message of apology to 105 rand and we are returned: apologizes and gives us back the money??
What happened?
Our assumptions are in fact two three ... 1) the Italian girl who has just moved his bags in the room kind of put us in a good word ...
2) Andrea B that was the last of us to talk to him to say the magic phrase that has touched his heart ..
3) one of us seeing our mood a little 'black simulated has everything to make us happy ...
Truth is not the conclusion we will never know ...
Fatima is my opinion: Find alternative ... and there certainly are not the only ones in the area ..
Cleaning is just reduced to a minimum and even less in the bathroom. ... And then clarified always write the whole thing and maybe let agreed to avoid any future misunderstandings ...
This applies worldwide.
WEDNESDAY '16/08/2006
At 04:30 there are two taxi
300metical waiting for us, lead us into what they call the station but it's just a shed outside, behind a shed ... Once again we are approached in turn by local
... We are a bit 'suspicious and prejudiced, in the end we understand who just want to make some money or help ..
We are told that the bus will leave at 5 but not at 6 days in the future ... We will learn the Mozambican peace. At 6
open, using the imagination, a sort of ticket .. We pay 640 meters to 50 meters of torque with luggage ..
The station is the bus that Oliveras from afar looks like a nice bus, more than decent, but then you get closer you see it in its entirety and will you ask, because 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 water, bread, mandarin oranges, toothpaste, hot soups, etc. ..
women are beautiful in their colors, their children wrapped behind his back .. A
those wonderful children who will certainly be many things the kids western, but he still got some contact ... They have the best mother's love without knowing it ..
are tossed up and down every time their mother bends down, moves and they laugh with no problem ... luckily not
Oliveras III & IV, we have about three places for people and travel
comfortable ... The roads are often unpaved, potholed are
.. through all the villages. There is not much in areas where the bus stops and we are literally surrounded by women with their babies on their backs and baskets on their heads full of tangerines, bananas, etc. ... or kids selling cookies, soft drinks and dried fruit ..
Since the journey is long we take advantage of this "shop on wheels
Since the trips are on average throughout the day is likely to prove necessary to use the bathroom ... but I will not dwell too much on description. How
council look all the time to be constipated and a sheltered place to pee is enough ..
The bathroom is a dark room lit only by a window where you remove all their waste which are deposited where they stop 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 to be adaptable to want to dive into their world ... ... and I would do it all that made this trip ..
around 16:00 We arrive in Inhambane, where he will take a Chiapas to Tofo.
reclaim the backpacks that have meanwhile been transformed to resemble bags of dusty, red sticky and saw the bags of potatoes and every possible thing they have come in contact plus the bus is full of cracks, the poor roads of red coated them
... We are literally assaulted by hordes of boys and taxi driver who once again want to ... accompany the majority of Fatima by fatima cries! (I say no thanks!)
PRAIA DO Tofo, Inhambane - Mozambique
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 location, we play the card "Delito friend would phone and ten minutes later we Nimberto his knowledge ..
knows the place and knows who to ask .. We are accompanied in Tofo
with its off-road full of our backpacks and four of us follow him on Chiapas ..
At 17:30 we're on the beach!
There seems now a very quiet, no one is upset or agitated when we arrived .. How
Tofo describe: imagine an inverted "T", where you come from the main road with the road of sand are the shacks that serve as shops, on the one hand there is also a market with fruits and vegetables and a little more forward there is a market of local crafts. Tofo is composed of a long beach and relaxing beachside resort as there are 2-3 that certainly makes it more in the name that in real life .. and then there are individual boxes, we can even call them houses for their standard,
are very simple, basic but ok!
Nimberto there is accommodation in one of the houses near the beach, the date on management DONA MARIA and her husband.
The house has a huge living room with open kitchen with all utensils, fridge and freezer, two bedrooms and bathroom ..
in the little courtyard in front of a house porch with wicker chairs and a lawn behind the house with lots of wire for hanging out and BBQ ..
We will use everything!
Since there are only two rooms & Jael Andrea sacrifice themselves very generously in the living room and sleep on a mattress on the floor throughout time ..
The house is basic but clean.
After a nice and refreshing hot shower (no hot shower just by law has the resistance to heat water inside the shower head ...) we are looking for something to eat ... A little further on there CASA BARRY
http: / / www.casabarry.com/
A small resort full of everything and will be our point of reference with regard to food. We dine on the terrace of his restaurant: good food and abundant, not very cheap prices normal (eating a tot pay 450 rand tot: 17, 6 € per couple).
THURSDAY 17/08/2006
Day devoted to relaxation, we recover energy from the beginning of the holiday we always dawn or earlier to get things done, although I must confess that, on average, then at 22:00 we were all fired and went to bed, sleep with a good read, do not sleep that never was late in coming.
We wake up at nine and go to breakfast at Casa Barry, there are very good breakfast with a good variety of choice in European prices (10 € per couple).
We focus then diving in search of since the days following are devoted to diving. Within Barry
house there is a Padi 5 star diving
Tofo SCUBA tel: +258 (0) 232 9030 cell: +258 (0) 828
26014 email: tofoscuba@teledata.mz - www.tofoscuba.com
There is a very good impression, then just down the street on the other hand, there is another diving: it looks equally good, the prices are similar but House Barry inspires more confidence and is really a short walk from our apartment!
return is booked for tomorrow at 10:30 snorkeling safari to see the whale shark (250 rand per person € 29) then at 13:30 we have the first dive (cost about 40 € immersion) is booked for the eight days of the next 2 to MANTA REEF to 30 meters deep to see the manta rays that are made clean by the fish workers to wash ... like washing car.
For the 2nd dive since we are all open except Raffa need to do an exam and pay 40 rand for the examination and another 40 for the fuel surcharge, because the place is a bit 'farther. Meanwhile, we reserve
then we'll see ... The most important thing is done, now we can relax,
do laundry and get organized for dinner we decided to cook fish at home, saving money and eating more. Diego is able to buy 4 kilograms of shrimp from local fishermen at a price of 300 meters about 10 tot € price ... but Italian and then we are sure that they are fresh ..
buy tomatoes for the sauce, pineapple, papaya, beer, etc. ... and it is out an excellent dinner and already think that tomorrow night ...
We decided to reciprocate the help given by Nimberto inviting him and his wife to dinner ...
FRIDAY 'We are loads
18/08/2006
and excited to add all of the animals seen so far ... even marine
Barry Breakfast at home ... .. I have a call made from yogurt and PADI Muesly, excellent and energizing ..
At 9:30 we are diving to attend to all practices and complete the forms and find the diving equipment ..
are a good team and everything goes quickly.
At 10:30 we leave.
First need to push into the sea (and I mean when I write push push) the boat stranded on the sand, making you help by reflux of the wave. Everyone has to push
following the technique already proven diving.
It 's a bit funny!
Once at sea the boat was launched at full speed or nearly .. in some cases literally on the cheap 'water with their jumps and landings that follow ..
I do not love Ben, I do not like the rides and I do not enjoy it at all ... they are the only pizza company ... everyone else is enjoying a lot.
Even my stomach does not appreciate and begin to report its presence .. What is
snorkeling safari? If
I had known I would not have done ....
You go around looking
shark is also the little man on the tower to facilitate sighting and once located the girl in the diving (in this case, Tania) yells, "Now!" All are thrown into the water frantically heading towards the place where he was seen ... there is a little problem: the animal does not stand still and do not wait, then a score that we do are just some of the fastest .. and those with less
I think ... I admit are scary, I have my technique to get off the boat, I'm afraid of the beasts of the deep 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 not to see any more sharks but avoid the jellyfish!
Everything is very hectic ... 3-4 minutes .. you're rushing to search for the whale shark and then go up again, the boat moves and everything is repeated .. There
thrown back but me and Diego are moving too slowly and then go on to the idea of \u200b\u200ba shark 6, 7 meters, even if a little harmless' blocks us .. 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 the boat on the water, and a nice big manta distant whales Raffaella jumping ... but you just got thrown back and screams ... a "medusina" with blue filaments of one meter took it in the neck and remained in silent moments ... are not pleasant for her and for us that mainly help .
Diego severing the filaments from the neck, nettle, in turn, a hand, then pour the water (the only thing we have ...)
In the meantime I swung by the water I proceeded to give my breakfast to fish,
I can not wait to finish everything.
Another lady shortly after following my example ... What fun!
dive two more times and then back to shore by jumping on the water as the sea is a bit 'rough, even if the guy driving it is still good. Once near the shore they tell you to keep you firmly in place and launch the boat into the sand runs aground at full speed .. again.
return and it's time to go out for a dive true, I have no desire:
between seasickness and lack of experience ... (I got the patent in June with Diego and Jael and apart from the diving 's I made no other examination)
Tania understands everything and is very nice, encouraging and reassuring .. First
me a pill against sea sickness and I promise to be my shadow.
Ok, you have to break the ice for
everything I paid for the patent. At diving are all the equipment ready and fit only to be checked on every piece there is our name. They are an excellent diving. How
first experience abroad is really ok!
We prepare, we do brefing and Raffaella which fortunately has recovered from the encounter with the jellyfish, I saw that everything is translated into English.
Here is the story that repeats itself ... Push the boat in water and so on.
Once there look for the exact spot with the GPRS and the dive master down to the wire and behind us. Tania
control group and another girl ... There is a bit 'current and Tania helps me. Once
below are very quiet and I did not more problems, I enjoy diving even though I still find the right setting. Tofo
waters are full of life ... one of my dreams materialize two meters away from me: a cavity out a huge turtle swimming in front of me and quickly disappearing into the blue.
I'm fascinated by these animals so huge but agile in the sea ... I had seen in Sipadan in Malaysian Borneo snorkeling, but this is the first to see it underwater.
We see so many fish that I am not to list, a nice dive by the boys watched the diving, we end up as the air begins to turn the slope: 1, Diego is going back with the other girl's diving, then later I am with other Tania ver the past two with the guy driving.
I still feel the sea sickness while doing a safety stop and look when they come to rescue us with the boat but at least does not call.
'm glad I did, but me and Diego we decided to take things slowly and give up the Manta Reef to do another dive to 18 meters .. quiet following the school (SSI
first get at least 12 dives and then you can take the patent for the 39 mt). I want to be quiet with my experience. Thanks to Tania for doing his job so well! Once home we divide the tasks, grocery shopping this morning because we have guests ... We buy a slice of grilled barracuda to do and to make spaghetti sauce with shrimp. There
gasiamo idea of \u200b\u200bspaghetti cooked by a true connoisseur of pasta! Well
never buy pasta abroad unless it is from Italy, betting only on Italian spaghetti or rice to choose .... The result is a careful
the lives of our guests I invite to dinner, our spaghetti become inedible glue, causing loss of quality to the excellent sauce made from Diego.
revive the dinner with the grilled fish and shrimp stir-fried.
Good thing he likes to fish on the spot because there is not much choice.
It leaves a nice evening, talking in Italian, Portuguese, English and a little English.
When the guests leave my friends started to study for the exam is tomorrow in English, thank goodness we have changed his mind ...
Saturday, 19/08/2006
We wake up quietly while the rest early part of the group for the dive manta reef enthusiasts back .. while we prepare for our 10:00.
This is also beautiful, we see beautiful starfish and wonderful colors. We return
cooked and hungry, we finish all the food in the house because we leave early tomorrow Tofo Villanculos direction ... Let's take a trip to the local market by buying some memory: it is a good market and then we regret not having bought many more things ..
negotiate to find a Chiapas there at six ports in Inhambane.
We pay your stay at Donna Maria that every day spent cleaning the house and check that we did not need anything.
Recommended! We pay a total of 75 € for 4 nights per couple, less than 10 € per night per person .. To book here's the phone number: 258-25574943
DONA MARIA.
For more info on Tofo:
http://www.tofotravel.com/
www.tofo.co.za
Sunday, 20/08/2006 Going from Inhambane we stop to have breakfast with Grace and Nimberto a final farewell: we are facing a gargantuan breakfast and we are ashamed even more of our dinner ... Maybe if you spent a day in Italy we will reciprocate their affection ...
accompany us to the marina where they tell us that there is a boat to cross the bay and Maxixe find ourselves ... but we try
ferry ... we do not see any scan the horizon, but even the shadow reached the end of the pier ... ... there is a hidden tub (a boat) used by fishermen already packed with people ... Once again perform a miracle they can find a accommodation for us and our backpacks. None of our family imagine where we finished what we are doing ... with the camera also filmed the whole if discreetly, we never want to attract too much attention.
We laugh at the situation we are in a nutshell overloaded and float. Once again our ability to adapt is strengthened! A
Maxixe unknowingly make a painful choice: we see a small minibus station (Chiapas) and without inquiring too much about the other possibilities we stop the "first stall (do not do it maybe there is never a choice in favor of a little later ...) C 'is a void that goes to Chiapas Villanculos, we negotiate the price and we will pay for the backpacks on the roof of the van ... we sit back and here some of us make choices mostly due to wrong tactics: Andrea
the highest of us went to sit in the seat behind it has more leg room then two pair for each row of seats ... What a beautiful Chiapas
everything for us ... Here is the error: The Chiapas not as part of the 'bus at a scheduled time but only when it is full, or better say packed!
little further is the real bus station Oliveras, ask!
We waited about two hours before departure and when we have dared protest have offered to leave only for us but at a price doubled and we outraged by stingy we have refused to go through the usual crowds and charlatans ... better to suffer like everyone!
Perhaps now many of us would agree also a price tripled! For
not pull it too long, I conclude by saying that Chiapas had a normal capacity of about sixteen people, and we found ourselves in twenty-five plus two children and two cocks along the way ... still picking up people, you can not describe the positions taken by some travelers as true contortionists ... Andrea F found himself in the most lowest and most of all blocked and could not even move his arm. ... The trip lasted about five hours ... As a suggestion if you happen to choose this means of transport: the last to go up or choose the seats behind the driver ... usually there is more room for the feet, there is the window, and when people up and down is easier than any time unable to get a few inches of precious space! I say this from experience, this trip was my place.
We paid around this "hell" 1200 Metical as a group once they arrive at their destination ... we tried to pay less, considering the conditions of the journey but we have not delivered the backpacks and blackmailed again we accepted their terms!
We are almost all exhausted, standing before six, and this trip has certainly recharged ... Straight off we are again surrounded by groups of kids (no offense stinking call them: do not like to wash and deodorant ...) We should be accustomed to being surrounded by people who will pull the suitcase to take you somewhere to sleep for the sole purpose of receiving some coin to bringing our customers ....
do not know if because of fatigue or of the environment this time we are even more defensive and do not ask and do not accept help from anyone. ... We close ourselves to training impala ... All in a circle with backpacks in the middle!
read as B & B are recommended by Lonely Planet ...
boys do not give up and continue to say a name: "BAOBAB BEACH"
http://www.baobabbeach.com/
082 7315420/023 82417
baobabmoz email @ yahoo.
a bit confused and stressed Diego and Andrea B sent on ahead ... turn useless in six dragging behind women, children and animals "or pardon dragging their packs light ... not at all
wait at least an hour, the sun begins to go down, the kids do not loosen his grip and studying our every move ... see a pen and a piece of candy they want to see .. and ask ... so sometimes I have even made fun of us .... we are always strangers instill in their world
... ... From a distance we see a van with pop up on Andrea and Diego ... they have found the right place and they came to get with the owner of B & B. A boy tries
: Says the guy who was he to tell his name, we do not like lies and contradict all this time ... nothing is missing ... and learn not to cry just a name but to offer more choices.
The most famous name is often not the best choice ever see Fatima! We
Josef & Tina .. a new structure made by Josef sent by the European community to experiment with new crops in agriculture.
The lodge was built, perhaps to round off a good accommodation in the house
There are three bedrooms, a huge living room complete with TV and sofas and a kitchen complete with everything just as great for guests. Then there are the bungalows
Circular the thatched roof to provide a more simple with shared bathrooms. ...
There is also a restaurant bar where he served until 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, addresses for any other accommodation:
http://www.smugglers.co.za/ 082 770 3720
Casa Rex
www.casaguci.com 023 82048 00258 82 8686540
info@casaguci.com
Blue Water
082 807 5750 / 082 7683400
MONDAY '21/08/2006
We ask Josef, who proves
available to satisfy our curiosity or doubt, how do you go around the islands on the other hand ... we came up to here to see how popular the Bazaruto Archipelago National Marine Park .... Despite the cloudy skies throughout the day we book the tour by DOW (another nut shell sailing with that for some mysterious force of nature can be full of people can float and move).
It 's a wonderful sea, with beautiful colors, some photos can not do it justice ... the sea is calm and even though I am coward, no better foresight to say by nature ... I can also enjoy the journey outward. ... in the boat as there are only chairs of the axes of the wooden cross and form benches.
The crew consists of the driver of the boat and cook ... we meet a lonely crab fisherman who swims in the sea without a boat and stabbing all the crabs he meets. ... The chef will buy six for a € ... (I refuse to eat ... I'm not vegetarian but in my mind only a few animals are destined to die ... I feel sorry for others and I can not eat them ... my fellow adventure when you gather them grilled as opposed to me will make him a big party.
to continue the journey ... eleven faces a one-hour break on the first island, Benguerra
; is pretty much the classic picture-postcard island: long beach and pristine white sand with palm trees behind.
wander the island and we meet with two children who want to sell their toy, a sailing boat made from them that the demonstration made it floats and moves well with the wind ... price 10 €.
The problem is not the price but overall, being able to take her to Italy without breaking ... give him two shirts and a pair of shorts ... and we also do a photo ...
This island is also possible to stay there because have build a tourist village but of course the prices are the tourist to get here and the price is not even comparable with our DIY!
off again at 13:30 and will dock on the other island: Manguerra, certainly more suitable for snorkeling ... we relax on the beach while the cook prepares us for lunch ..
The island is currently inhabited only by locals but they are building hotels, they begin to spoil this paradise ... building tourist facilities along the beach without taking into account the context where they are .... Ok hotels were less intrusive but more suited to place ....
There is a wonderful group of children waiting for the usual gifts to us tourists ... and we learn later, also waiting for the leftovers of our food and can literally lick the pots and then wash them in the sea ... and deliver them to the cook, immaculate!
The boys devote themselves to tell us snorkeling and fish and a huge amount of life imaginable, all bodes well for the dives that we hope to do.
eat rice with a good tomato sauce, grilled fish, crabs and the poor ... I enjoy an excellent pineapple to eat a hen with her chicks that have adapted to eat just about anything ... even the fish every so often ... I feel a little St. Francis the patron saint of animals ... ...
Time is changing, dark clouds on the horizon ... you look better to take the way back ... I do not want
stressing telling you how I enjoyed finding myself in a tiny nutshell at the mercy of rough seas and wind ... we must follow the current at least in my opinion takes us farther and farther from the shore. ... waves occasionally washing those who enter directly into the boat is in sight ... sometimes we are the only ones on the horizon and then pass on my mind thoughts like, "if we reverse no one will notice our absence. "
Some of us laugh have fun, I growl
saying that we should not go around looking for trouble ... ok adventure , Ok .. but the spirit of adaptation there is a limit to everything. In hindsight that was not so bad but I hate any carousel that moves ... and that day the sea had decided to move.
At 17:00 we return and I can kiss the ground ... we paid the tour 1800 meters per couple (about 28 € each) ..
go around looking for a reliable way to book your scuba diving for the day after ... The lonely speaks very well of AQUA BLACK call you ... but it is already full ..
we worry a bit 'because we had decided to stay one more night and then leaving for South Africa getting closer to returning to avert any unforeseen last minutes ... Some people say "we can divide us, I want to dive and stop a day more." Who says "I want to see Blida river canyon in South Africa and childbirth."
But we are a group and eventually we all come to meet us and we can satisfy the wishes of all ... do not categorize ourselves ... we decided to stay one more day ... with a pledge by us women to get up early in the morning with the hope of find a free diving for the same days
TUESDAY ... '22/08/2006
Jael we start at six and I look for a diving center, but we are not in a very touristy area and how it has struggled to find a place to stay the same , He becomes even more complicated for diving centers ...
It is however a good chance to see the sunrise, do some nice pictures and take a relaxing stroll on the beach, we also find some beautiful shells. ... One of those still inside with the animal that will cling to life with all his strength and even more ... (His attempts to escape and my prayers for liberals and donate it to its wonderful sea, were not used to anything against his tormentors in the name I shall conceal (in the name of friendship that binds us!)
but his death will weigh on their conscience each time show the shells collected in Mozambique!) I know you do not care nothing ... but a diary is also full of personal memories that you want to capture in time.
I resume the path of the story: We call on all local and they send us to the diving of the baobab beach ... this is our target: we get that is opening up but tell us that today do not carry out because the dive boat is broken .... To have availability tomorrow!
We come back after lunch and all six return to the center to gather more info ... The center is composed of Viki.Ben ASKi and their dog and some black boy ... does not seem to bad and then we do not have much choice ... book for two dives days later.
www.odysseadive.com
scubaben_uk@yahoo.co.uk
00258 82 7817130
Again, a day devoted to relaxation and some shopping in the center of the country ... ... there is an Internet point where we can book your car once you arrive in South Africa, some of us took the opportunity to call home ... and so on.
There is a market for local products ... all very characteristic ... and discover that there is also the soap from them, they sell it to the piece and have many types and with different tastes ... but then why the majority of them do not use it?
Delito telephone call to the late afternoon and make his acquaintance ... we offer you something to drink and once again I take this opportunity to expand our knowledge about the area ... We ask
information about malaria ... or if there are just exaggerations ....
He speaks as if he were speaking of the influence ... has just recovered from about six months on average once a year and takes it.
us a bit 'scared of us ... we're just on that one has malaria prophylaxis ... ... five of us are against us before leaving us informed and we have drawn this conclusion: there is no real
vaccine against malaria, but only a prophylaxis (the Lariam) which is passed by each other and, according to who has taken it has significant side effects (also suspect a case of suicide) especially on those who suffer from depression or similar ... for six months you should absolutely avoid pregnancy ... etc ... It is certainly not a light thing and then wishing you the malaria
bills anyway ... There is also a drug charge € 50 a carton: Malarone (the name itself inspires me a lot of confidence), but to that of many it is more tolerable.
Given that assures you will not catch nothing we opt for the behavioral profiles.
course I hear tell us the type of nest once a year brividino few passes for the back ... but we console saying we are at risk for 4 days, for him a life ... his points are likely to be more certain, we sleep in a concrete house with bed nets on him ... in a hut with a roof straw. Congratulations !!!!!
Of course they are surprised when we explained to him that in Italy has been eradicated a long time ... Amazing, is part of life for them ...
Six months have passed since our return home and want to reassure you that none of us got sick !
Again we buy the fish and Diego tries his hand for a good lunch while taking advantage of spices taken from the garden and the remains of Josef also become our dinner. Relax
WEDNESDAY ... '23/08/2006
At eight o'clock we present DIVING Odyssey and depart shortly after diving on the island of Bazaruto to climb ... on the boat is less "traumatic"
that of Tofo. ... The sea is a table of colors and beautiful, made even more special by yellow sand and broke it emerges here because the low tide ...
I immediately realize that this was safe diving
few stars less is more homemade ... we can define the gommne ... there is only the blonde Viki (with a little 'of snobbish) and the guy driving the boat. I now ask myself "if she goes ahead and acts as a guide, who is behind the end of the control group?" No logical answer!
ask immediately Raffaella (The Advance of the group) to give me a look in the descent (my big Achilles' heel) I feel more peaceful, indeed my friend Diego is like me but he is on his third dive and is already so if he can take care of himself ... because he can not count on my help ... at least during the down ..
Here we are at the crucial moment, all in water: Viki and the rope is thrown his way ... but I can not get Raffaella helps me literally pulling me down ... then it's ok ... Viki goes on his way not care the least about the group: could also be abducted by a giant octopus one after another that she would have found it only when it was up to her ... never in any way or make us turn back to count the sign ok!
worry
nice that once on land you recommend it to all divers in the world ... some The sea is wonderful in this area, there is no mass tourism and commercial exploitation to ruin, at least for the moment ... as
Diego usually ends up in the air to warn first and Viki .. she launches the platform and continues its dive ... Diego waiting for a signal ... and then realize that must go back alone ... I can not be assigned no companion care of me ... and moments of panic go through my head ... I can not and will not go back alone ...
start to ration the air to not finish it before the others ... and luckily I'll end Andrew F together and I trust her completely experience for the ascent and safety stop ... okay!
We pause between dives on the island of Bazaruto.
I am a victim once again of my stomach and I lay on the sand and not move even one step, Jael is a victim of the recall of the sun and lies down to sunbathe a bit '.
The others go to explore the island ... trudging climbing on top of the large sand dune that gives the idea to meet in the desert, but the show opens at the top of the rest of the island: an unexpected garden full of trees, palms ... lakes and breath-taking, while across the colors of the sea, sky and beach draw a spectacle no less exciting!
But I want to go back to talk about the "very nice" Viki and her diving center.
No one had bothered to warn us that we would spend our lunch break on a deserted island ... otherwise we would have brought something edible!
The blonde eats his two sandwiches, while we suffer from hunger.
With everything we've done to pay the two could not go scuba diving every package of something to put under the tangerine or two teeth at the local market do not cost anything?
spend 630 rand per person for two dives + 60 rand to the entrance to the park, total around 80 € each.
The second dive proves a bit 'disappointing from the perspective of the marine environment, we do not see much, but it's still good to reunite within the aquarium and not over ... we are part of the marine world!
returned after the fifteen, and very hungry
catapult us to the restaurant of the Baobab Beach ... not bad even if they are a bit 'long in service ... who eat fish, some meat pizza not bad ... I pay 400 mt per couple (12, € 5)
the evening, everyone prepares to transfer the backpack.
We bus the legendary Oliveras at three in the morning. Before going to sleep
Josef pay more than that everything was well offered, or rather did not have much choice, to accompany the bus stop at that absurd night for free in exchange for good publicity on the Internet.
recommended B & B!
Pay for 4 nights or 3000 750 rand Metical that are translated into € 23, 4 per night per room ... maybe you want something less? go to the Baobab Beach in thatched huts, perhaps more romantic, but certainly more at the mercy of mosquitoes
THURSDAY ... '24/08/2006
Alarm absurd at a later time and again, thanks to the passing of Josef arrived in a station Phantom Coach, we get to wait.
Now someone comes and tells us that the bus has gone before, that other part that after two hours ... you better take another one ... we stopped a bit 'but we doubt not give up ... we understand that after all the competition who wants to monopolize many customers as possible, we expect Oliveras ... as we did not betray outward for all Chiapas ... Of course if you try to imagine the scene:
's been just three in the morning, six white youths in a circle with all the backpacks in the middle waiting for cold and sleepy un'autobus means that party or maybe it already has been delayed a couple of 'hours ... not a happy scene properly. ... but we also survived this! Oliveras
arrived around half past four and uploaded our packs (ready to get dirty for the umpteenth time) with the owners ... more appropriate once we have all the space possible.
those parts is defined un'autobus of luxury, in Italy we call it a lemon to be scrapped, but in this case we have the "beloved", has arrived and led us to target ... not making as tight as sardines in Chiapas and treated as persons.
The ticket inspectors expect to see us all asleep so we can wake up with an excuse to give us breakfast ... a tangerine head. ... And then again everyone is asleep ... here it comes again to ask to check the tickets that he himself did at the start ... very nice person and very nice ... Again the stops in "Autogrill" walking ... ... and meeting with their bathrooms.
We arrived at the starting point of our trip to Mozambique in Maputo that nineteen of the evening ... a journey that lasted about 14 hours to 400 km, between holes, laughter, photos, tangerines, books, dried fruit, flying down from the seat due a hole too deep and excellent suspension of the bus ...
paid travel 900 meters (32.5 € per couple).
trip that will remain within us as we have seen the sea, the landscapes and the people we met ...
This is the story of our adventure in Mozambique, to meet a less technical point of view, less detailed, but that tells only the feelings and emotions by Jael on this wonderful country you can read:
http://www.viaggierelax.it/viaggi/index.php? option = com_content & task = view & id = 142 & Itemid = 15
The next day we take the bus from Maputo to Nespruit dell'Intercape ... .. We're back in South Africa!
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