Catch of the day

Here, today’s fishing villages blend nicely with former artefacts. Coral stones were the primary building material during the Arabic era and are also found on some facades of the current village houses. Sanda’s stomach rebels with the morning pancakes but she pushes for the longer eastward hiking route, yeah! The air is thick, hot and moist with strong onshore wind. The whole day we are in expectation of a thunderstorm but get burned by cloaked sun instead. We bounce around on paths full of biting ants while our guide leads us through farmland and villages where we visit several abandoned and intact deeeeep wells. It’s the first time I get to taste wild Marula fruits which are used to flavour the renowned Amarula Liqueur of South Africa. From the elevated ruins of the Palace of Husuni Kubwa we see our Dhow taxi approaching. It’s afternoon when we descend to the mangrove shore and get picked up by our sailing captain. Before departing on our relaxing ride he and our guide buy freshly caught fish from a nearby fishermen who is wading around in waist-deep water.Read more