We arrived in Swaziland at about 6pm on Friday the 19th of October we had booked to stay at a backpackers called Always the Baz bus would only drop us at Legends so we stayed the night there this was the start of our run of bad luck!!
We got up the next day and had planned to travel over to Mozambique for a few days we had met Katie and Dave previously who had recommended hostels in Mozambique to stay. We travelled from Swaziland over to Maputo in Mozambique we got a "taxi" which is basically a mini bus rammed full of as many people possible we ended up sitting next to 3 kids who at the end of the trip were sick on Hayley's leg. We arrived at Mozambique at 5pm and got dropped of at a "bus station"we then had to pull our backpacks out of the trailer with loads of people surrounding us trying to get us to go with them in there taxi it was really horrible and me and Hayley just looked at each other not knowing what to do after being ripped off by a taxi we got to our first hostel in Mozambique called The Base. It was just a stop off as we wanted to go all the way to Tofu which is about a 7 and a half bus ride from Maputo. We had to get up at 5am to get our bus to Tofu, we got to the bus station and where ushered into a mini bus "taxi" we paid the small fee to take us to Tofu we then had to sit and wait until the mini bus was full which took 3 and a half hours!! So before we even left Maputo we sat in a mini bus with thousands of people around us in the market just waiting to leave. We finally left the bus station at 9.30am and left for Tofu we already had numb bums and we hadn't even left yet!
We got to Tofu at 5.30pm and hadn't stopped once we shared the mini bus with men, women, babies and a distressed chicken!! All we could do was laugh after all we had ended are nightmare bus ride in Tofu which was beautiful. We had to walk along the beach to our hostel the water was warm and very colourful it was stunning.
The hostel we stayed in was called Bamboozi and we booked to stay 3 nights the setting was so nice huts dotted around the beach the journey felt worth it now. Are first full day in Tofu we went to the beach and swam in the sea for hours which was warm, we said to ourselves we deserved to rest for the day. The next day we went snorkeling which was brilliant we swam with a whale shark and saw a dolphin close up playing in the sea. In the evenings we drank beer and watched the sun set, we decided after alot of talking that we would do anything not to have that taxi journey again and booked are selfs onto a flight from Inhabane to Maputo which is only a 45 min flight. The airport was tiny and so was the plain! We left Maputo in Mozambique and went to Swaziland which took another 3 hours
We arrived at the backpackers called Sonzela's in the evening which was situated in a nature reserve. We stayed 3 nights and on our first morning we opened the door to our hut and we saw Zebra an Ostrich and dear which were about 15 feet away! It was a really nice place very peaceful and obviously loads of wildlife. During the day we went on walks and saw a crocodile by a watering hole we also walked past Zebras and warthogs. In the evening we drank wine and had food by the fire we also started playing cheat (a card game) and soon got everyone addicted!!
Tomorrow is Saturday the 27th and we are heading to Nelspurit and then onto Kruger National Park to go on safari the park is said to be massive 2 million kilometers!! We have been told to wear neutral colours so pink and yellow it is!!
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