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I got my bags packed on a roll.

I'm heading out there and I'm ready to go.

Looking real good in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler, episode 505.

Today the amateur traveler talks about lighthouses and beaches,

scuba and the spice trade as we go to the African country of Mozambique. should be heading home but maybe not

maybe not so the day.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen.

We'll hear more from our new sponsor Rover.com but first let's talk about Mozambique.

I'd like to welcome the show Simon Lewis from Travel Concept Solution who has come to

talk to us about Mozambique.

Simon welcome to the show.

Hi Chris, how are you doing?

Before we start talking about Mozambique, let's put it on a map for people.

We're in Africa, but where are we in Africa?

We're on the east coast of Africa, okay, just above South Africa.

There's a long, thin country about 2,500

1,000 kilometers long that runs from Swaziland, South Africa to the southern border of Tanzania.

And before we talk about why other people should go, why were you in Mozambique?

Well, I've been to Mozambique a couple of times, first in 1997, but I went there about two years ago for a month-long trip because I was there for a kind of business holiday trip where I spent a month in Mozambique traveling from the north to the south to some of the spots I've always wanted to go to. I was inspired to go to Mozambique because I saw an article in an in-flight magazine describing Maputu, the capital city of Mozambique, as the Havana of Africa,

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