by Sam Hollis | Mar 21, 2021 | Coast trips, Travel
It has been a little while since we have posted. With the rise in COVID numbers as discussed in the last blog, life got a bit more restricted and a blog about my latest exploits with online shopping and not leaving the Condo much seemed a little dull. But numbers are...
by Sam Hollis | Jan 24, 2021 | Coast trips, Life in Mozambique, Visitors
Having arrived in mid March 2020 we had not seen in person any of our family or friends. The toll was starting to tell and by November we were keen to get family out here to visit. The UK December lockdown with associated travel ban put paid to that idea. But with a...
by Sam Hollis | Oct 25, 2020 | Coast trips, Travel
After a morning relaxing and walking the dog, we headed over to Mozambique Horse Safari. It was an interesting drive, down small dirt roads through the outskirts of Vilankulos past lots of roundhouses. If we went the wrong way the local children were very good at...
by Sam Hollis | Oct 18, 2020 | Coast trips, Travel, Underwater wildlife
Many places you visit are over-hyped, over-promoted and over-sold. This isn’t the case for Vilankulos. I knew relatively little about it before we came. I knew there was an archipelago just off the coast that was a marine reserve, there was some horse riding and...
by Sam Hollis | Aug 5, 2020 | Coast trips, Near Maputo, Travel, Wildlife
After a late lunch in Ponta D’oro (see the previous blog) we decided it was time to head up to Ponta Malongane and the Sky Island Resort where we were booked to stay. The Pontas (points) are a series of points heading up the coast. Each point has a sheltered bay...
by Sam Hollis | Jul 25, 2020 | Coast trips, Travel, Wildlife
Our neighbours have been telling us for a while what an amazing place Ponta D’Ouro is. It’s well known with South African’s and is right on the border. From us, in Maputo, it’s about an hour and a half away. So we had a quick skim of AirB&B...
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