Folks,

I went down to Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, for a few days last week. Rather than deal with the hassle of vehicle papers, I left my bike in South Africa (White River, at the house of a motorcycling friend I met in South Africa a couple of months ago) and headed to Mozambique by the minibus taxis that all the black people use.

Mozambique has been in civil was for much of the last 20 years, so the infrastructure is creaky to non-existent. Water is only available in Maputo for half the day, as they lose too much underground otherwise. Power cuts are frequent.