Postcard from
Maputo 
11 August 2001

From Nelspruit in South Africa I ran over to Maputo Mozambique on the Indian Ocean for a couple days to work out transportation up the coast. The city reminds me a lot of other former Portuguese colonies I've visited. As I spent only three expensive nights here and found no cyber cafes, my PenCam stayed in its candy wrapper case. Night travel by bus has been discontinued in the country due to many serious road accidents. That means buses stop wherever they happen to be around eight o'clock and people are expected to "sleep" in their seats until dawn. All of the soft living for the past month has made me reluctant to accept such "hardship" and I jumped on a bus back to Pretoria to re-think my travel options.

Peace,

Fred Bellomy 11 August 2001

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