Maputo, Mozambique Feb 8, 2007
Today is Thursday we must be in Mozambique!
This is a former Marxist Russian city, but now with extensive shipping & mineral refineries it has been struggling to be a democracy. It extends over 1500 miles along the coast between So Africa & Kenya. Just east lays the non-continent Madagascar. We toured (in a bus) Maputo, the capital, during a hot muggy day. We saw old colonial buildings such as the railway station (green building) & all iron home, both designed by Gustave Eiffel of the tower fame. Sad to say, the unemployment rate is over 70% & medical case is pay as you go. There is an extensive colony of ultra modern designed hotels along the shore of the bay. One embassy is bigger than the next. And, there is a profusion of beautiful flowering trees towering along the wide thoroughfares that criss cross the town of 2 million living in mansions or shanties.
Photo above-as you steam into port the city seems very modern. Unfortunately, its not been maintained. I love the drive along the beach-in town women carry things on their head in plastic containers-not woven baskets-and the famous train station.
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