Maputo, Mozambique

We’ve never been to Mozambique before and we were pleased to have been included in a private walking tour of Maputo organized by our friend Erin. Our guide, Hendy, was terrific. He gave us a solid overview of Mozambique’s Portuguese colonial past as well as its independence and civil war.

While Maputo is a city of over a million people, the city’s key landmarks were an easy walk from the port and we managed to cover them comfortably in three hours (and about 11,000 steps😉). The city screams colonial and the buildings that have been maintained, like the train station, are stunning. We also visited various monuments, a fort that’s also a museum, the cathedral, Independence Square, the botanical gardens, the iron house designed by Gustave Eiffel, and the market. The market is renowned for its hair section!?! Once the tour was over, Brad and I did a bit of exploring in the market area on our own.Read more