The best of Mozambique

My Mozambique trip has ended. I thought to review some things and clear up some confusions that a certain travel guide, Lonely Planet, gave some of my fellow travellers regarding price.

R250 bus ticket from Midrand to Maputo

Maputo:

BEST place to stay is The Base Backpackers - the nicest people, friendly helpful and you meet very nice people there (a few of whom travelled with me all the way to Vilanculo)

Dorm price: 350 Mt (divide it by four to get rands). Only 6 beds per dorm.

600 Mt in total to get to chappas leaving spot (chappas are mini bus taxis), ad then chappa to Tofo.


Tofo:

Fatima's nest is way over priced and over-rated. And the dorms are dark. Dorm price 500 Mt. Camping is supposedly 150 Mt but on arrival my friends from Maputo found it to be 350 Mt.

For dorms rather go to John's Spot. A small place, lovely bright airy rooms with only 4 beds to a dorm, as opposed to Fatima's with 16.

30 Mt chappa to Inhambane 915Mt for person, 15 Mt for bag)


Inhambane:

Pencao Pechica (Hotel Pechica). 400 My a dorm. Decent. There is another backpackers that charges 350 Mt. I had walked all the way to Pencao and it was hot and I was only staying on night and it was very close to the ferry that we had to take to get to Maxixe to get to Vilanculo.

Ferry to Maxixe: 10 Mt. Chappa to Vilanculo including bag: 250 Mt. But other people got them down to 225 Mt


Vilanculo:

For dorms take Zombie Bananas. 50 Mt more expensive than Vilanculo backpackers but it is worth if for the light open rooms and nice setting. Vilanculo bpackers is well old, dark and in the middle of nowhere. So dorms at Cucumbers 400 Mt.

For camping go to Josef e Tina. Next door to Cucumbers, it is 150 Mt including breakfast (a breadroll, jam, butter, coffee and tea.

Beira bus (for Chimoio we get off at Inchope junction) heading to Chimoio. Leaves at 4am. Costs 450 Mt (100 Mt more if you dot want to sit with you bag on your lap, or between your legs etc). About 40 Mt from Inchope to Chimoio.


Chimoio:

Pink Papaya dorms are 400 Mt. I dodnt stay there, they were fully booked. I stayed at Hotel Madrinhia, 250 Mt a night for a room. HORRIBLE ablution at back of shabeen so noisey until after 12 midnight. But an experience none-the-less and cheap for one night stay.

Bus to Tete: 300 Mt leaving at 4am

Didnt stay in Tete. Went straight through to Zobue, the border to Malawi. That chappa ride cost me, 100 Mt for person, 50 Mt for bag.

NOTE: all buses leave from a place in the city called Mercado Municipal.