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Day 10
This morning Maputo is enveloped in cloud and drizzle. Our hotel doesn’t offer breakfast and is unrepentant on their pricing so we leave early in search of food and another hotel. After a few transactions with street vendors we have ourselves bananas, bread, tempura and water, and are marching towards Fatima’s Backpackers, the Maputo branch of the place we found quite hospitable in Tofo.
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Day 9
Time to leave Kaya MJ behind us. Artur arrives at about 6:30am with the Land Rover and we load ourselves in for the journey to Maputo. Nick is in the back with Artur’s wife and daughter, and I’m in the front. The weather is bright and sunny, and the car quickly gets hot and stuffy. We start by going to Barra Lodge to see if they have my sunglassses, which I lost on the ocean safari yesterday (they don’t), and then on to Inhambane to fill up with fuel (an exorbitant 2100 meticals – about £65) and pick up Artur’s luggage from his house. By the time we’ve done all that it’s already 9:30am and we haven’t even left Inhambane yet.