On Friday afternoon, we left the office at a reasonable hour and walked over to the dock where we took a ferry across the harbour to Catembe. It is located across the bay - a 3 hour drive by car or a 15 minute ferry ride by boat. It is like a whole other country over there. Instantly, you are removed from the busy city streets of Maputo and taken to a serene countryside. After cramming as many people and cars into the boat, we set sail for Catembe. A mixture of visiting tourists from South Africa, commuters going home, and people like us just going for some food and drink.
Kevin, Lina and I walked the dirt road to our eventual destination - a local eatery. We dined on locally caught prawns, which were fabulous by the way, and some fish steaks grilled to perfection. We washed it all down with some cold ones.
If the food wasn't enough to satisfy my curiousity, the view certainly was. Maputo looked gorgeous! After it started to get dark the view was even better. The coastline light up by the shopping centres and restaurants. Shortly thereafter we decided to head back to the mainland. A trip around Maputo without a little scare. I delayed as long as I could before embarking on our 15 minute journey to avoid an inevitable sea sickness. The boat to take us back was one of the local private operators. It was cramped, damp, and stunk of burnt diesel fuel. But, we made it safe and sound...yeah!
3 comments:
Those first 2 pics are gorgeous! It looks so peaceful. Oh and of course the 3rd pic is pretty hot too ;) Is that a pic of inside the boat?? omg...it does look kinda scary. Glad you're safe and sound.
Yeah I wasn't saying much on the way back, just counting down the minutes until my two feet were on dry land again.
ur friend Kevin is cute!!
I never would have thought u would bring ur greedy belly overseas!
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