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Experience, observe and learn about Mozambique's native Bantu and Swahili cultures in areas where local traditions of arts, crafts, entertainment, cuisine, religion, work and other interesting ways of daily life are still performed and practised.
Southern Mozambique
Santa Carolina (One of the Bazaruto Islands) hosted the popular and well known TV Show 'Survivor South Africa' in 2010.
Southern Mozambique
If you are in town in November then the annual dhow race is something not to be missed. It draws huge crowds and offers the winner substantial price money (almost the equivalent of their annual earnings!)
Southern Mozambique
Believe it or not - boarding a ferry to Inhambane is the fastest way to get there than by road (and vice versa)
Southern Mozambique
The lakes near Quissico offers a range of exciting activities to do including kayaking, skiing, parasailing, canoeing and kitesurfing. Anglers have the opportunity to catch kingfish, grunter and various other fish species. The lakes are ideal for exploring. You can take a long boat trip north through numerous lakes and winding water channels towards Inharrime where magnificent scenery and an abundance of birdlife is there to appreciate!
Southern Mozambique
The bay waters are clear, calm and relatively shallow between mainland and the islands providing ideal conditions for kitesurfing and safe bathing. Diving, snorkeling and big game fishing is extremely popular within the Bazaruto Archipelago and is renowned as one of the best fishing regions off Mozambique's coast for black marlin.
Southern Mozambique
The Limpopo River is Africa's 2nd longest river stretching approximately 1,750 kilometres and a catchment area of 415,000 square kilometres.
Central Mozambique
The Chicamba Dam ecosystem attracts a prolific amount of birdlife and wildlife you can expect to see (depending on where about you visit around Chicamba Dam) includes giraffe, zebra, ostrich, vervet monkeys, horses, antelope among others.
Central Mozambique
Chimoio (formerly known as Vila Pery under Portuguese administration) won its first Mozambican Football Championship title in 1969!
Central Mozambique
The Chinhamapere Rock Art site is considered sacred by the by the Shona people and is used for rain making ceremonies; rain dance animals depicted in rock paintings are usually large herbivores such as antelope or hippos!
Southern Mozambique
Hop onto a ferry for a 25 minute ride to Maputo and admire spectacular views of Maputo, the bay and the modern Maputo Katembe Bridge that's very akin to the renowned Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco which is beatifully lit up like a Christmas tree at night ...
Southern Mozambique
Maputo is where historical monuments with beautiful architecture still stand and where museums invite you to tell the story behind Mozambique's rich colonial history. Interesting places to visit includes the Natural History Museum, The Central Railway Station in Maputo, Maputo City Hall, The Iron House in Maputo, Jardim Tunduru in Maputo, Maputo Catholic Cathedral, Maputo Special Reserve nearby and Xefina Island.
Northern Mozambique
Mozambicans love clothes and if you have spare clothes (especially board shorts), then remember to take some with you, to trade with!
Northern Mozambique
The Island of Mozambique has played an important role since the 10th century in intercontinental trade to the East, in the 16th century is was an established and wealthy trading port for ships sailing on monsoon winds and where cargoes of ivory, gold and slaves were traded for fabrics and spices from India and Arabia.
Northern Mozambique
To help sustain and support the local community, it would be appreciated if you bring unwanted supplies along such as clothes, toys for kids, medical supplies (bandages, medicine etc), school stationary or anything else you could think of that would put a smile on the communities faces. Every bit counts!
Northern Mozambique
Did you know, Nacala's port is the 2nd deepest port in the world (as deep as 200m)!! This region also boasts some of the best diving locations in Africa! Explore numerous dive sites that are hardly known of with experienced dive charters available.
Northern Mozambique
The area and landscape here is very beautiful and unique to Mozambique. Amongst the rolling hills and high mountains, large volcanic rocks (inselbergs) protrude from the earths surface creating a bizzare yet fascinating landscape.
Northern Mozambique
The Portuguese East African Company named the town Cuamba in 1937. In 1952 its name was changed to Nova Freixo - in 1971 it was granted city status and, after independence in 1976, it reverted to its original Cuamba.
Northern Mozambique
Lake Malawi is famous for its huge swarms of lake flies! These tiny harmless flies, which when they hatch, form huge plumes resembling smoke rising up from the water. The local children find them a real treat and when they land on shore they gather them up by the handful then make them into "cakes" fry then eat them!
Northern Mozambique
Lichinga was founded by the Portuguese in 1931 and named Vila Cabral, after Mozambique's independence in 1975 the town was renamed Lichinga.
Central Mozambique
There are a number of interesting landmarks such as the beautiful Cathedral of Beira (Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary) which was completed in 1907 using stone from the ruins of the old Sofala Fort (Fort San Gaetano) which was imported from Portugal and completed in the year 1501. At the mouth of the Pungoe River you will find the Grand Hotel which opened in 1954 and once was revered as the most opulent hotel in Africa and dubbed the "Pride of Africa". The hotel with its impressive Art Deco facade sadly never managed to attract enough guests and closed in 1963.
Central Mozambique
Take a day excursion to Beira, the second largest city in Mozambique. Beira is known as the "Ship Graveyard", so you'll have lots of fun exploring the different shipwrecks along the beaches, especially the southern beaches of Beira.
Central Mozambique
The Cahora Bassa Dam was also the first high voltage direct current transmission system operational in Africa, and the first anywhere in the world to operate above 500 kV!
Central Mozambique
There are a couple of hotels in Songo where you can book accommodation otherwise this a perfect little stop-over or sleep overnight town.
Central Mozambique
The Cahora Bassa Dam (150km north west of Tete) was also the first high voltage direct current transmission system operational in Africa, and the first anywhere in the world to operate above 500 kV!
Central Mozambique
Before the Civil War, Gurue had the largest and most productive tea plantations in the Southern hemisphere!
Central Mozambique
±10km South East of Ilha do Fogo is the visible Dutch shipwreck of Bredenhof which wrecked off Ilha Silva back in 1753. The ship was a Dutch East-India Company (VOC or Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) which contained silver ingots, lead ingots, copper coins, cannons. In 1986, an excavation company discovered a treasure load of silver ingots and copper coins which was taken and auctioned in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Could there still be more treasure to be found?
Central Mozambique
Mocuba is a great stopover town for long distant travellers who are arriving or travelling to Malawi's Milange border.
Central Mozambique
The endless biodiversity of mangrove estuaries are not only a haven for coastal birdlife but also a treat to explore on kayak with stunning scenery to admire.
Central Mozambique
Quelimane has one of the largest coconut plantations in the world! If you take a drive north east from Quelimane, you will end up on a beautiful beach called Zalala beach. White sands stretch for miles in either direction.
Northern Mozambique
Mocimboa da Praia is a perfect beach destination for kitesurfers. The calm surf and shallow waters nearby has put Mocimboa da Praia as a hotspot destination within the kitesurfing community. The word is spreading for those looking to discover new beaches in an almost uncharted territory, so bring your kitesurfing gear and brag about your experience with friends alike.
Northern Mozambique
Many cultural activities can be experienced in Montepuez, such as learning the art of traditional pottery, cooking recipies, herbal medicine initiations out in the bush, hair braiding, a 'mussiro mask' (beauty mask made from tree bark) and learning the art of Makonde.
Northern Mozambique
Palma sits on the inside arch of a massive 225km² bay at the mouth of a beautiful mangrove estuary. A large number of fishermen in their boats can be observed actively drifting around the bay where views of both Tecomaji and Rongui islands can be spotted from the beach.
Northern Mozambique
Pangane is a gateway village to Mozambique's largest island national park, the Quirimba Archipelago.
Northern Mozambique
Pemba Bay is the 3rd largest natural bay in the world (13,000 HA) and the largest bay in Africa from Ponta do Diabo to Ponta Maunhane. It is said that if every ship in the world had to dock in Pemba Bay, there would still be space for more!
Northern Mozambique
Many people claim that the Quirimbas Archipelago islands is not only the best scuba diving and big game fishing location in Africa, but the best in the world! The Quirimba offers you one of the top ten scuba sites on the planet.
South Africa
Botanists will be pleased to know that Kosi Bay is one of the very few regions in the world where five different mangrove species co-exist just in one area.
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