A week in Mozambique

Typical Mozambique. 

I arrived in Swaziland from Mozambique yesterday. I was in Mozambique from 21-27 July, so I haven't been able to update. The internet there is called "john", and he can't be connected to from outside of the room that he is in.

This poster advertises FELIMO, the awesome ruling party.

Mozambique was one of the most interesting places I have ever been to. I was shocked at how different it is from Swaziland there, because the countries border. Compared to Mozambique, Swaziland feels much more modern, but more traditional at the same time. Swaziland feels modern in the sense that you can go to modern buildings, have hot water and reliable electricity, etc. That is not the case in Mozambique. However, in Mozambique, you would not be able to buy a wife for eleven cows, and you would never see a man walking down the street wearing skins to show his wealth. All in all, Mozambique is incredibly poor compared to Swaziland, but it is much more globalized.

I rode in the back of a Soviet truck!!

In Mozambique we mostly did tourist things. The market in Tofo is what I expected to see all over on this trip. Beautiful things for sale and pushy salesmen to sell them are all over Tofo, some of which even show up to the lodge and try to sell things to you there. In Mozambique, lots of the salesmen were willing to do almost anything to get rid of their crafts. If you said you didn't have Mozambican Meticas, they would sell things for whatever currency you did have. If none at all, they would offer to trade for the clothes that you were wearing.

We went on an ocean safari in Mozambique, where we saw lots of humpback whales. We also went kayaking and horse riding.

Wawa and Jess

On the Mozambique trip, I asked Wawa what other trips All Out Africa offers since I will be here for a while. He mentioned something about Zimbabwe and Botswana, but he wasn't very clear. This morning Roland (the head of All Out) was at Lidwala, which is very rare. I asked him if he knew anything about that, and he said he is leaving for Victoria Falls on Friday with two seats available! Kristien from Belgium and I will probably come along with him! I am incredibly excited, as Victoria Falls was something I have always wanted to see, but never believed I would actually be able to.

Most of the volunteers that arrived at the same time as me are leaving tomorrow. Right when I finally learned all of their names. It will be sad to see them go, they were a nice bunch. I can't imagine staying for only four weeks, it feels like I just got here.


I will go back to the building site tomorrow, and work there until Thursday. I don't know what I will work on yet.