The second week in Mozambique, we headed to the province of Inhambane to visit another field office location. In order to get there we headed from Maputo to Vilanculos and then Vilanculos to Inhambane. As I have learned there are not direct flights anywhere in Mozambique and you can only fly via one carrier called Lam. We left Inhambane and headed to Maxixe which is the exactly location of the office and was about an 1.5 hour drive around the bay on a bumpy dirt road. After the week in the office we headed over to Barra beach for some R&R over a long weekend.
It was beautiful, the beaches were amazing, white squeaky sand, no one around for miles on end and the water was a perfect temperature along with have amazing visibility. All and all I would say I was a bit shocked to see how beautiful it was there. I had a great weekend there, went for some nice runs on the beach, got to see amazing sunsets from various locations, swam with WHALESHARKS (that's right!!!), went horseback riding and managed some time resting on the beach. So I would say it was a huge success.
So just a bit about the whalesharks, apparently you can only swim with them in like 10 locations around the world and we happened to be staying at one of them. They call it an ocean safari since they take you out searching for animals. When we first got out there they thought they spotted one but it turned out to be a shark, luckly no one had jumped into the water yet. After checking him out we went around for about an hour looking and looking and they couldn't spot a whale shark anywhere and then finally when we were able to get back they found one. So we all put on our snorkling gear (there were about 10 people on the boat) and hop into the water and you basically swim right above and next to the whale shark. It was completely amazing and UNREAL, I could not believe it was happening. These animals are bottom feeders and so they don't harm humans but they are huge, I would say about 30 ft long maybe longer. What am amazing experience and we were really lucky to find one.
After all that the resort we stayed at had a little evening dance routine and live music from local artist. Then all was said and done and we headed back to Maputo but not before we stopped to try some cashew fruit that some local kids were selling on the side of the road...there is a great video of me trying it for the first time that pretty much sums up the taste but thats for another time.
The second week in Mozambique, we headed to the province of Inhambane to visit another field office location. In order to get there we headed from Maputo to Vilanculos and then Vilanculos to Inhambane. As I have learned there are not direct flights anywhere in Mozambique and you can only fly via one carrier called Lam. We left Inhambane and headed to Maxixe which is the exactly location of the office and was about an 1.5 hour drive around the bay on a bumpy dirt road. After the week in the office we headed over to Barra beach for some R&R over a long weekend.
It was beautiful, the beaches were amazing, white squeaky sand, no one around for miles on end and the water was a perfect temperature along with have amazing visibility. All and all I would say I was a bit shocked to see how beautiful it was there. I had a great weekend there, went for some nice runs on the beach, got to see amazing sunsets from various locations, swam with WHALESHARKS (that's right!!!), went horseback riding and managed some time resting on the beach. So I would say it was a huge success.
So just a bit about the whalesharks, apparently you can only swim with them in like 10 locations around the world and we happened to be staying at one of them. They call it an ocean safari since they take you out searching for animals. When we first got out there they thought they spotted one but it turned out to be a shark, luckly no one had jumped into the water yet. After checking him out we went around for about an hour looking and looking and they couldn't spot a whale shark anywhere and then finally when we were able to get back they found one. So we all put on our snorkling gear (there were about 10 people on the boat) and hop into the water and you basically swim right above and next to the whale shark. It was completely amazing and UNREAL, I could not believe it was happening. These animals are bottom feeders and so they don't harm humans but they are huge, I would say about 30 ft long maybe longer. What am amazing experience and we were really lucky to find one.
After all that the resort we stayed at had a little evening dance routine and live music from local artist. Then all was said and done and we headed back to Maputo but not before we stopped to try some cashew fruit that some local kids were selling on the side of the road...there is a great video of me trying it for the first time that pretty much sums up the taste but thats for another time.
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