Day 38 Nhanabwe - Pomene

January 16, 2016
After few nice and relaxing days, we decided to move on. We had a Couchsurfing friend in Maputo, so we were on the way to visit and stay with him. We left our camp, and little jack russell that was our friend during the stay was sitting there and saying goodbye to us. It was so sad...:(

To get to Inhassoro we took coastal road this time and drove on the sand:

We met some fishermen pulling nets:

Went through Vilanculos once again and then back to main road. We turned off the main road near Nhanchengue and there was beautiful small sandy dirt road:

Soon after we saw bunch of people stuck on the road:

Their car was broken. But the guys knew what to do, but they didn't have a jack, so we stopped and landed them ours. They were eager to be on the camera, so they asked us to take some photos of them :)

After a while the car was fixed and we headed towards Pomene Nature Reserve:

Nature and scenery was really beautiful. Really wild, no people. Some monkeys and baboons and lots of birds. The road got more narrow and sandier:

 There was a swamp on one side of the road:

 Finally we arrived to the lodge, and no surprise, we were again the only ones camping there:

 Later on the evening we cooked some dinner: pineapple and mango risotto! Was delicious :)

 We camped not too far from the sea, but not too close to hear the waves:

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Day 36 - 37 Nhamabwe

January 14-15, 2016
For the next two days we were enjoying the sunshine and paradise beach in Nhanabwe.

There is a building that used to be a restaurant and bar, but there is nothing happening here, people use it for camping:

The view from the restaurant:

The bar, what is left of it:

Toilets in the corner, the place has been looked after:

Tables still there:

Pathway to the restaurant:

We went for a walks on the peninsula, there was beautiful lodge where we met the owners they were from Zimbabwe, moved to Mozambique many years ago:

There were two parrots:

Swimming pool at the lodge:

So we were just enjoying and relaxing for the two days, reading books, getting hot and trying to cool ourselves in the water:) Stunning sunsets:

When it got dark, we went for a swim and there the plankton was shinning when we moved the water, it was spectacular!!!

Day 35 Buffalo Camp - Nhamabwe

January 13, 2016

This day we were going back to our favourite spot in Mozambique - Nhamabwe. We were not far from there so there was no rush. On the road again typical african scenery - overloaded vehicles, this time bus: :)

Things for sale. Around this area there was a  lot of delicious honey for sale. We are not big fans of honey usually, but this one was really good, it was pretty liquid, with a smokey flavour to it. People use smoke to get out bees and gather the honey.

Soon we arrived to Vilanculos. Nice beachy style town. Many lodges around this area. We went to garage to fix mudflap for the car, it was loose.

The streets are sandy here:

Then we went to Johnson's Bar, that is the place you can buy permit to drive on the beach to get to Nhamabwe. Otherwise you must take the road that goes through the swam.

We left Vilanculos and drove towards Nhamabwe through a very small road, most of the time the road led us through people's gardens:)

Looks like a small path rather than a road:

There were lots of bushes and thorns on the road:

And one huge thorn on our tyre! So we stopped and changed the tyre:

Next thing - the swamp! That was slip and slide drive!!!

Anyways soon we arrived at our favourite spot in Mozambique! We set up our camp, went for a walk. Close to us there was a small local bar:

The bay:

On the other side of the peninsula there is an open ocean:

 Signs for the lodges that are around here:

Soon we got hungry and cooked delicious prawns that we bought in Vilanculos:

Prawns and pineapples!

So we were nicely settled and our plans were to stay here for a couple of days...

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