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BACK FROM THE JOLLY!!
Well i have retured safely from mozambique, even if there was an earthquake that read 7.8 on the scale, i didn't feel it as i was on the beach that night!!
Its was a totally amazing place where we stayed! In little huts made of wood and dries palm leaves! We were just behind a sand dune with a beach on the other side! Blue waters, white sands, it was perfect!!
On the way to Moz we spent a night in Swaziland with the volenteers there, Its an amazingly friendly place so different to South Africa! While we were there we went to a club called House on Fire and saw a band called FRESHLY GROUND who are now one of the best bands i've ever seen, the atmosphere was buzzing and everyone going mad for them! Its was cool to meet loads of new people again and spend the week with them, bit more of a mix as well with dutch and germans!
In moz we went out on an ocean safari and snorkled with whale sharks and mantarays, both creature incredable! Whale sharks are about 12m long and just swim round feeding! the only problem was jellyfish!! I avoided them but alot didn't, like Nicola who got stung everytime she got in the water! Few people also had problems with seasickness as the sea was quite rough! Good waves though for boddy boarding which i did one afternoon, waves brought you straight into the shore! Had a good seafood buffet as well on my last night, lots of prawns, calamari and baracuda! also had a Baracuda briaa while we were there! Have dicovered Tipo Tinto, a local mozambican rum which is very nice and drank lots of throughout the week, at what works out to be 1.20 a bottle who wouldn't!?! The money is crazy, 25 pounds makes you a millionaire!! Made it really hard to work out what you were spending.
The journey there was amazing to see the changes from South Africa to Swaziland to Mozanbique! I can't wait to travel now! Swaziland doesn't look that much different to Barberton, bit more hilly and no seperation of the blacks and whites unlike SA! Into Mozambique and you suddenly notice how much poorer it is, shacks in the middle of nowhere, stalls alond the sides of the roads where you come to a few more houses! Sometimes there was nothing, you really felt like "this is the middle of nowhere"! Maputo where we stayed for a nite on the way to Tofo (where we spent the week) is a run down city although the capital, parts have not been touch after destruction from the civil war, bullet holes in the walls! Other parts of the city have been revamped, or just built again, its now the fastest growing African country!
It was a crazy, mad and amazing week that i won't forget in a long long time!!
Sure i've forgotten a few things but will add them when i remember!! x x x
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