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Wow what an INSANE past few days. After leaving south africa and entering into mozambique through the border city of kamatispoort we drove into the capital city of maputo (pic). Crazy traffic, pollution, and everyone seemed to be selling something on the streets. It reminded me a lot of the major cities of southeast asia. I did get talked into buying a couple cds so we had some music for the road. We left maputo after driving around for a bit and headed out of town toward porta malongane which is a small town on the indian ocean. We drove about 20km on paved roads then turned off on to a brutal dirt/sand road for the next 50km. We stopped on the road a couple of times to buy fruits of some kind from kids on the road side - we never were able to figure out exactly what we bought. Only saw a handful of cars in that hour drive but saw lots of hut villages and villagers walkng down the roadside. Most people smiled widely and waved as we drove past. Then we were back on a paved road for another 20km and then that road literally turned into sand dunes which we had probably another 30k on. We were hitting HUGE puddles with the landrover and that thing just powered through anything you could throw at it. It was like we we'e in a land rover commercial or something. After a couple missed turns due to no signs whatsoever we finally made it to our campground at melangane and had a huge seafood dinner at the campground restaurant. The campground was right on the ocean and the scenery was amazing. Almost completely undeveloped oceanfront in both directions. We spent the next morning hanging out on the beach and then decided to walk down to the next town, porto de ouro, which was about 5km away. Just as we began our walk some south african guys that were also at the campground on vacation offered us a ride. Of course we got in which was the beginning of an interesting afternoon of 4x4ing in sand dunes and then on to hit some bars in the next town. Things got weird as these guys were basically the south african version of southern good ol boys that liked to booze hardcore. We ended up just having to leave them at the bar and go back to the camp on our own. They did make it back because we saw them later that night but wow did they know how to get after it. Today we got up early and I went scuba diving (which was awesome) and then we drove 5 hours back into s africa to durban where we'll spend the next couple days before flying back to capetown. We're going out now for indian food because durban has the highest population of indians outside of india so it should be good.