Mozambique style

We are in mozambique! yesterday we visited the open air market in the center of Maputo and saw all sorts of fresh food and crafts. It was beautiful and crowded! afterwards we headed to the fish market for lunch and were bombarded by waiters trying to get you to come to their restaurant. it was absolutely insane! after we decided on one they brought us fresh fish that had just been caught to show us, we picked out what we wanted, and they cooked it. we had two kinds of fish grilled and three huge tiger prawns. the fish was delicious, and the prawns were ok. while we were there a guy named moses spent a good 15 min trying to get me to purchase some fabric from him. it was hilarious, and man was he persistent. after the delicious dinner we had to head back to the hostel and so we were going to take public transport on a chapa, their version of bus. bus is used very liberally here becuase they are actually mini vans, but they squeze what looks like 50 people in there! it is pretty remarkable the number of people in the chapa. and there is always someone riding hanging out of the sliding door as they leave. needless to say there was no room for six people on any of the chapas. but after asking a chapa driver if his chapa went where we were going a man in a big truck waved us down and offered to give us a ride. so we rode back to the hostel on the back of a truck... true african style! and it was only $2 versus about $10 for a taxi for all of us. it was definitly an exciting ride! now we are off to the beach in Xai Xai (pronounced shy-shy) even though everyone says we should go to tofo, but we dont have time to go that far north. so off we go to camp on the beach! africa is wonderful!