New Year and Snorkelling in Vilanculos (Dec 28th- 2nd) Vilanculos was somewhere that I thought sounded amazing when reading about it in the guide book before arriving, the gate way to the magical (if expensive) Bazaruto Archipelago and all it's underwater wonders.At first sight it looked like it was going to disappoint but we had a small inkling that it wasn't the paradise that it might have been when on our Christmas day horse ride Volker had told us it had bee...

Tofo - Christmas at the Beach (23rd - 28th Dec) As we left the camp site, we hadn't heard from Alex the day before, as there was no phone reception, so didn't really know when he would arrive in Xai-Xai. Not long after we left the beach for the 10km drive to town we hit some phone reception and the texts began coming in, with the last one saying he was in town already and was begging us to get there and pick him up. As we approached the "bus station", ...

Xai-Xai and our 1st glimpse of the Mozambiquian Coast (Dec 21st - 23rd)We headed out of the camp going along the same dirt road we came in on before continuing on more of the same until we reached Massinga, where we cross over the Dam wall and started out on a good tarred road. As we were leaving the park and showing our park permit to the "guard", he said that he needed some Rand's and we realised that he wanted to help us change some money into Metica...

Kruger to Campismo Agula Pasqiera (Fish Eagle Camp) Mozambique!!! Real Africa here we come or at least I woke up on the morning of Dec 20th hoping that the day would go well and that by night fall we'd be in Mozambique! It went very well the road in Kruger was open, as we got closer to the border and the Limpopo National Park on the Moz side the wildlife seemed to disappear don't know whether that was due to the amount of water around or whether animals just kne...