Around the World: Mozambique

Our tour in Mozambique started off at the local market. The market started off similar to the one in Seychelles with fish and vegetables but then as you kept walking there were stalls for hair products, cashews, souvenirs and shells. Mozambique has a lot of illegal immigrants and on the way out of the market we saw two police officers with rifles grab this guy and pull him along down the street. Our guide told us later on the bus that they wanted to see his I.D. and he didn’t want to show them. We did see them letting him go after. Next we took a tour of the city and saw Gustave Eiffel’s steel house which was made for a governor but after it was built they realized it was too hot to live in. Afterwards we went to a natural history museum where we saw a stuffed lion that was given to a governor as a present and also some other animals most of which were hard to tell if they were real or not. At the end of our tour we found out that our guide Irena was 16 years old. The unemployment rate in Mozambique is very high and Irena has 2 older sisters and 3 younger sisters so I think she is helping out her Mum by guiding a bit. She said that she was missing her first class of the day but after the tour would be going to school until the evening. We didn’t overly like Mozambique although we didn’t really see a lot of it and it wouldn’t be on our to visit list again or at least not Maputo which was the town we docked in.