I got back on Sunday from my whirlwind first-time visit to Mozambique. Quite an exciting adventure we had.. I went with to watch a friends band play at a music festival there. We got up at 4am on Friday, piled into a stuffed van and so began the 12 hour drive into the sunrise.



We stopped for a leg stretch at the most amazing and vast dam just outside the border, I didn't even know it existed until now, sadly none of my pictures do justice to the epic size.



I saw a rainbow which always makes me smile



The border post was quite a shock for me, I walked straight through to Mozambique to sit at their 'border bar' and no one batted an eyelid or attempted to stamp my passport, after having a drink I started to feel bad so I walked back across in search of someone who wanted to stamp it, the man seemed pretty upset that I wanted him to move even.



I found an amazing. huge moth in the bathroom. It was about as big as my hand, reminds me that I haven't seen a moth in ages!



We had to leave the van at the border because the roads were too bad to drive on, then we all climbed on to the back of a bakkie with the sun setting behind us.



I will fast forward through the part where we arrive at our accommodation (an empty campsite, with no tents) right to where I am sleeping in a cabin, listening to the ocean. I could feel the wind gently rocking the room which at that point was strangely comforting.

I woke up to the ocean looking me right in the face and we ate breakfast looking back at it




That day we had the beach all to ourselves, there was not another soul in sight, nor a bird for that matter. It made me very sad that the whole trip I did not see a single bird, animal, even spider - I'm told that during the war most of the wildlife was wiped out and used for bush meat.




That evening we went to the show, the vibe was really nice, just a bunch of people who loved music regardless of the style and everyone was dressed like superheroes, I had a good time and the band let me throw their giant balloons to the crowd




We woke up the next day and set off and eventually in the distance, I could see the familiar Joburg skyline



I was greeted by a flurry of tail wagging which always makes me glad to be back.
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