We felt much better waking up this morning, but we both still had to visit the toilet. We drove to Nampula where we refuelled. The petrol station didn’t have air so we stopped next to the road where someone inflated the wheels by taking out the inside pin of the valve and just putting a [...]
Before checking out Caro went for a quick swim in the ocean for old time's sake as we were heading inland again for a week or two. We, unfortunately, had to drive the same long road back to Nampula, but at least we spent a good week here to make up for the long drive. [...]
After a French toast breakfast we set off for Ilha which is just 5km from us as the crow flies, but 65km on the road. On Rod and Pam's trip report, we saw they visited an old Governors house or palace that was overgrown with plants, but we couldn't find any Points of Interest on [...]
The sun baked us out of the tent again. Caro hand blended bananas to make a banana smoothie for breakfast. After packing up and settling the bill we took the gravel road to Fernao Veloso instead of just directly going back to Nacala. After the Shaquila Lodge which has rooms in modified containers the road [...]
Today will be the longest distance of driving on our whole trip so far so we really wanted an early start. We set an alarm 06:30, but then only left at 08:00 again. We gave a small donation to the mission as there is no official rate for camping. The road was very good and [...]
We got up by 07:00 which felt like a personal record and packed up. People were already started to line up around the fence to try and be our guide so we decided against the hike as we didn’t want the hassle of a guide. Being tired from the hike would probably also not be [...]
We slept until we had to get up so as to not miss breakfast. We were told that breakfast is included in the price for camping so we went to the ‘Giraffe’ room. We helped ourselves to coffee and toast and then Hugo found the breakfast menu. At the top, it clearly said breakfast is [...]
The sun heated everything up in the morning and we got up to a beautiful morning. Gerrie has to be in South Africa in 3 or 4 days so they set off towards Blantyre. We had to catch up on some work so decided to just go to Casa Rossa halfway down the plateau if [...]
We really took our time to pack up and Hugo had some quick work to do. Caro and Lisa also took out all their souvenirs and especially cloths to show each other. This caused both of them to want to buy even more fabrics. Gerrie and Lisa left before us, but we are potentially both [...]
We took our time to pack up as we only had a short drive ahead of us. We left Fat Monkeys at 11:00 and stopped in the town to buy some eggs and fresh produce. The road to Liwonde was the same as usual, but the last 10km had roadworks. First, just short detours around [...]
