Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Inhambane

Buzz It
At this time we visited the beaches of Inhambane (Tofu & Barra), 600km away from Maputo. To save some money, we hitch-hiked. Our way to go up like this, was amazing. We liked the best the pickups. The sky is beautiful here and we just lied down in the back of the pickup and enjoyed the clouds and the environment passing by.

Chilling Out


Dreaming


Wonderland


In Inhambane, we stayed at the volunteers working there, actually at this time only one volunteer is there: Miguel from Portugal. He showed us around in Inhambane, shared lots of stories, introduced their project there - we enjoyed very much his hosting.

We also checked out Inhambane's famous beaches: Barra & Tofu


A very nice lodge & restaurant on the Barra Beach, where we had our lunch


The view from the restaurant


The 'Altar'

In the summer time, many couple comes here to get married on this beach. Just imagine this wonderful scene with a white tent around the altar and some chairs around it... ;)


Enjoying the Beach


Resting


Somebody mush have had some very romantic mood here... :)


Ocean view


Sleeping & Speeding

On the way back, we were very lucky. A guy picked us up in Inhambane and took us directly home to Maputo. It turned out, this guy used to be a car racer here, in Mozambique so we got back to Maputo in record time. However we were pretty tired after this weekend, so we slept well in the back of the car - we just got up a few times when our racer had to brake hard and we got some of his cargo in our face...

All in all, we had unforgettable memories in Inhambane. The people in that project, the local people, the beaches, everything was very nice. However the price sometimes were for the South African tourists - I would say it was still reasonable. The only bad thing was the distance - it takes one day to go up there and another to come back.