Vilanculo, Mozambique

Palm Sunday

Local boat we had to take

locals walking

Today we left Tofo to head to Vilanculo another beach village.  We first had to take a 30 minute shuttle, to a 25 minute boat ride to a 6 hour shuttle.

Once we got off the first shuttle and the boat we had to wait 2 hours until the shuttle was completely full before leaving which we had somewhat gotten used to.

As we waited Adrienne danced with a drunk man(at 8am), we asked to hold a crying baby that wouldn't stop crying to give the grandfather a break and we tried buying a begging child a pair of flip flops(since his were destroyed). but he didn't understand why we'd want to do that.

After they got the two seats filled we headed out on an overcrowded bus. We sat in the front thankfully and I actually got to hold a baby in my lap because her family of 4 wouldn't have fit into the shapa otherwise.  Of course I was thrilled with this, such a cutie!

I must say it's incredible to see the process of transportation in this country and how patient these people are.  I know I wouldn't be able to wait a whole day just to go a few hours away.  Crazy.

Anyway we got to our place opened our bottle of tipo tinto rum we bought and ordered some yummy fish sandwiches... Done!

local market

In the morning I went for a swim, we went for a walk then went to the local market for some local food and ate fish with pap in a coconut/peanut sauce.  Not bad for $1.00.

Today we rented a kayak.  Went to the local market again for some local food and beers, went for a nice walk on the beach then booked our EXPRESS bus back to Maputo!!