By the time we arrived in Vilankulos it was late afternoon, dusk was approaching but the town was still a hive of activity. There was very little to Vilankulos with regards to infrastructure, even less than Inhambane, just a spread out dusty town with the odd concrete building. We had expected a lot more with it being the main centre for tourism in Mozambique. The town centre extended little more than a couple of blocks and beyond this, Vilankulos was nothing mor...

We pulled into Bamboozi on the afternoon of the 23rd. We were full of excitement, this was to be one of our highlights and there had been plenty of talk in Capetown about these next 5 days. Coincidentally Dan had just completed checking in when we arrived and he seemed as pumped as we were. The place had a party feel about it, similar to Airlie Beach I guess, and we were itching to get boozied at Bamboozi.From what we had heard, Tofo was famous for 3 things - wha...

We arrived in Xai Xai, one of Southern Mozambiques major commercial centres around mid afternoon. It was not what we expected. We drove through town, grass hut stalls lined the road on either side, people were wandering everywhere, animals were wandering everywhere. Olds, cars and vans were parked here and there, it was noisy dusty, it sure was Africa, but where was the town? But for a couple of blocks of run-down, dilapidated concrete buildings, the whole place ...

Our first day and night in Mozambique was to be spent in Limpopo National Park (if you could call it that). Limpopo NP now stands as part of the greater transfrontier park which includes that of Kruger NP and another NP in Zimbabwe. Once a great park, plentiful with animals, Limpopo's wildlife was decimated during the recent years of civil war in the country with the animals commonly used as target practice and/or a source of food. With political stability return...

We cruised on to Kruger, and although Paul and Susie had been previously, for Kaz and I it was our first world-class game reserve. As we crossed the river into the park we were met by a couple of large crocodiles sunning themselves on the banks………"not a bad start". We signed in, checked the spotters board for the day and proceeded through the gate. I sceptically remarked that "apparently there had been some Rhino spotted just with...