Kategorie: Allgemein
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Harare
Yes, we were warned: The city with the outstanding crime rate: Don’t go out at night, don’t be recognisable as a tourist during the day (very easily said, but difficult to realize for a white person), never let the car out of sight. And we survived Harare. What’s more, we enjoyed it. Bronté Hotel was a…
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Eastern Highlands
Through fertile, successful and intensively used land by white farmers in old times, we drive to the southeast. Where the cornfields, vineyards and banana plantations used to be, you can still guess. In the middle of it: decaying farmhouses. Our destination is the 300 km long mountain world of the Eastern Highlands. After the river…
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Leaving Zimbabwe
How pleased our young revolting hearts were when the Crown Colony of Rhodesia came to an end in 1980 and Robert Mugabe became President of Zimbabwe. 37 years later, he still is. The joy has long since given way. Elections are due again in 2018. Will Robert Mugabe (93) be able to transfer the office…
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Mozambique
„The ceasefire that has been in place between the government and RENAMO since the beginning of this year has been consolidated and extended indefinitely. The military convoys accompanying civilian vehicles will remain suspended,“ the German Foreign Ministry wrote a few days ago. A reliable source. We dare to cross the border to Mozambique at Mutare. We…
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Always on the move
We crossed the border a little late, it’s too far to the coast. One night in busy Chimojo. Neither our desired city nor our desired hotel with a closed parking lot. A hotel directly on main street. But a security guard promises to watch over Toyo. After all, he’s got a rifle! This is hard-core Africa. We’re…
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The Sea!!
„I’m heading south and I want to reach the sea…“ Humming songs from a long time ago and recall these lines of a German singer-songwriter. Fits even today. On our trip to the south, there are now new features in the farmers‘ offerings: pineapple and cashew nuts grow here. Good for us (and the villagers) that…
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Beach Life (1)
Once again a campsite where we are all alone. We are directly at the endless beach with a full day view of Inhassoro’s beach life: The fishermen and their very labour-intensive fishing method: a boat leaves a net into the sea almost 1 km from the beach, pulled ashore by two groups of young people…
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Paradise
Santa Carolina, the smallest (3,000 x 500 meters) of the Bazaruto archipelago’s islands. The Portuguese called it „Paradise Island“. It’s a pity, I would have liked to name the island that way myself. The Portuguese were right. I know few more beautiful places in the world. And a picture doesn’t get out of my head:…
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Beach Life (2)
It is said that Mozambique has the most beautiful beaches of the entire East African coast. Inhassoro, Vilanculos, Morrungula, Barra, Tofo – places we didn’t know four weeks ago, with which we now connect dream beaches in Africa. And since the season doesn’t start until December, we are almost always alone, we don’t even have…
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Food Supply
We haven’t seen supermarkets in a long time. And street vendors, where the meat hangs at 35 degrees (in the shade) on a stand (in the sun), still frighten us. Well. spaghetti al tonno, then. In Inhambane we buy frozen turkey shanks in a shop consisting of only two large freezers on 6 square metres.…