Mozambique

It was awesome. We slept, we sprawled on the beach, we splashed in the Indian ocean (which is warm water btw) The water was beautiful shades of blue.

That's me, in the Indian Ocean

We go there on a tiny plane that we just walked right onto. They flight was pretty short, only three hours. The airport in Mozambique was tiny! You walked in, walked through the two people at customs, then baggage claim was there, turned a corner and you were where flight check in and security ( a sole metal detector) was. There was a tiny food place called "airport restaurant" The visa was easy too. We didn't get it before we left (we kinda forgot until it was too late) but we just showed up and they let us in.

This was where we stayed.

                                                                                                            

 We got food stuffs here a lot. On the left was a bakery filled with deliciousness and on the right was fresh bread and rolls. Most of the roads were not paved like this one, they were sand.

One day we sailed out to one of the islands near by and did some snorkeling. I had forgotten how much I enjoy sailing and the fish were awesome and had some amazing colors.

One day we went horseback riding in the morning. It was a lot of fun. My horse had these horse type sunglasses over her eyes because the pigmentation was poor or something. Her name was Evita. She enjoyed stopping to eat grass and occasionally going fast while we were on the beach. It was super fun.

Most of the time we spent lounging around on the beach or in the water or on this little deck thing enjoying the view.

This is what we saw when you opened the room door.

We tried to see the sunrise. One morning it was red!

The tide was crazy. High tide the water would start splashing up on the steps where we walked on to the beach. during low tide it was super low and sandbars would appear way out into the ocean. One morning we walked out to the sandbars. This dog that lived next door apparently came to the conclusion that we had no idea what we were doing and when it saw us swimming out there (or walking as it was pretty shallow) it came and swam with us to the sandbar. We walked across it to the ocean on the other side and when we stuck our feet in it yelped like oh hell no don't go in. Then it swam us back to shore, glancing back when the water got deep enough that we couldn't walk to make sure we'd be okay. It was adorable.

 

Can you see those little specks on the sandbar? That's us!

Local animal wise, there were chickens, a few goats, a whole lot of stray dogs that had a tendency to follow us. And then these lil critters.

Here are just some photos of local Vilanculos things

Housing

working on a boat

Playtime!

I am so glad I went! We had an awesome time.