We were spending a night at the next door joint called Baobab Backpackers, who are a participant on Open Africa’s Vilanculos Route route. There was a lively bunch of travellers sharing the bungalows and having a party for the one British guy’s 30th birthday. After making friends in the first 5 minutes, we were invited to share in the shenanigans, and had a great evening socializing and drinking the bar dry. Finally, after an amazing day at sea and an eventful evening ashore, we collapsed into the bunk beds. After nearly a month of not a single rainy day on The Journey, the heavens opened in full force at 4 in the morning. The downpour was so loud on the thatch that I lay there just waiting for the roof to cave in! None of us could hear the other shouting over the rain! We were caught in an infamous Mozambiquan tropical storm – bright flashes of lightning through the roof and thunder like a lorry driving through the room.
The morning was luckily calm, and we got on the road again heading inland towards Malawi. Our Mozambique adventure was coming to an end…but Malawi was waiting. We drove all day on hot dusty roads through village after village, passed the beautiful Gorongosa National Park (which has recently been taken under the financial wing of Bill Gates, who aims to help get it on track) until we reached Caia. We crossed the bridge and camped on the banks of the Zambezi, woke up early and made our way slowly but surely on the dusty rural back roads of inland Mozambique to the Milange border.
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