From Tete it was a nasty12 hour minibus ride down to Beira, cramped tiny seats with little leg room, no storage space for bags so they go on the floor taking up leg room, seats that fold out into the gangway so no chance of standing in the aisle. At each town a bunch of carrots and onions emerges through the window and get wriggled in our faces, the number one sales tactic in Mozambique, smell before you buy. At Beira the minibus driver demands 100 mets (about 2 ...

We waved goodbye to Happy and the AUP crew and took the bus down the coast to Lilongwe. We had planned to visit Mozambique but after spending the past seven months in 'third world' countries enough was enough, we felt the pull towards supermarkets, pavements and general order in society so we made the decision to bus it through Mozambique and start visiting modern South Africa, our final country! The next day it was down to Blantyre and the day after to the bor...