Nampula - Gateway to the intriguing islands

Nampula - third largest city in Mozambique and the province seat.

A gentle first stop for many, maybe for the first time visiting Africa, with wide and spacious streets and lush surroundings, Nampula offers all you need, and in a slow welcoming way.

The few sights to be seen includes the beautiful Carheral of Nossa Senhora de Fatima, The National Ethnography Museum and the Sunday morning Craft Market.

As a Monday keep most museums in the world closed for us we did the cathedral and went visiting a local railway station planning a alternative and adventurous way of getting here, before picking our fellow travellers on the airport. 

For evenings Nampula offer many different restaurants, with tasty Portuguese inspiered meals.

Today Ihla de Mozambique is our destination, a 3 km long and 500 m wide intriguing island with all of its culture and history...

Roadtrip Mocimboa de Praia to Nampula

Starting the day after a good night sleep in Chez Natalie, a good breakfast - with a view our roadtrip started.

Normally we never do this route with our guests, this is our transit to receive our people in Nampula where you will fly in.

The nature in Northern Mozambique is quite different to what we are used to in Tamzania. More hills and variations, very lush and green these days.

Only with a "village lunch" break consisting of spicy rice and goat stew as a break, we entered Nampula late afternoon after having a few showers in the outskirts of the city.

Today we'll do some sightseeing before vollecting our friends at the airport at 14.15.

To be continued...