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ROAD ATLAS MOZAMBIQUE MOZAMBIQUE INCLUDES NEWGPS CO-ORDINATES 0860 10 50 50 www.mapstudio.co.za ROAD ATLAS ity Maps 1st Edition © Map Studio™ 2009 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be Qual reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, SINCE 1958 mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission in writing from the Copyright owner. Map Studio and the MapStudio device are trademarked to New Holland Publishing (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd TRAVEL ISBN 978-1-77026-030-6 PERFECT FOR THE FIRST TIME VISITOR E COLOUR PHOTOS DETAILED CONTINUOUS MAP SECTION E STREET MAPS TOURIST AREAS E SITES E PLACE NAMES INDEX 9 781770 260306 CONTACT INFO E SMALL TOWNS E RESERVES NATIONAL PARKS ROUTE PLANNER www.mapstudio.co.za E Cover image supplied by ACTIVITIES HOT SPOTS HISTORY IMAGES OF AFRICA www.imagesofafrica.co.za E E Ian Michler GPS CO-ORDINATES MOZAMBIQUE Contents Contents Contents Content Mozambique flag INTRODUCTION 4 CENTRAL REGION 46 General 6 Beira 48 Parks and Reserves 8 Beira Corridor 49 History 10 Gorongosa National Park 50 Activities 12 Tete 52 Getting Around 14 Zambezi Delta 53 Quelimane 54 TOURIST REGIONS 16 Quelimane & Surrounds 55 Gili Reserve 56 MAPUTO REGION 18 Nampula 57 Highlights 20 Cuamba 59 Maputo 22 Mozambique Island 60 Maputaland 24 Maputo Bay & South 26 NORTHERN REGION 62 Maputo Elephant Reserve 28 Pemba 64 Bilene 30 Ibo 65 Chokwe & Surrounds 31 Mocímboa da Praia 66 Quirimba Archipelago 67 SOUTHERN REGION 32 Quirimba Archipelago South 68 Xai-Xai & Praia do Xai-Xai 34 Quirimba Archipelago North 70 Great Limpopo Transfrontier Niassa Reserve 72 Reserve 36 Lichinga Area 74 Zinave & Banhine National Parks 38 Inhambane & Surrounds 40 Vilankulo 42 MAIN MAP PAGES 76 Inhambane Coast & Tofo 43 Bazaruto Archipelago 44 INDEX 107 RESOURCES 109 3 Bazaruto Archipelago Bazaruto Arc WHAT THE ISLANDS OFFER •Ilha do Bazaruto Can be visited by twin-engined aircraft or boat; Bazaruto Lodge and Indigo Bay Hotel offer sheer style and island luxury; the farol do Bazaruto still flashes its warning signals out to sea. •Ilha de Benguerra A tract of indigenous dune forest promises superlative birdwatching and a series of brack-water lakes in which crocodiles secretly lurk is surrounded by beautiful shifting dunes that change colour with the light. Benguerra Island and Marlin Lodge – the latter built of Mozambican hardwoods and elevated on stilts – will ensure sweet dreams. •Ilha de Magaruque Catch a dhow to here or take a ski-boat transfer. Stroll on deserted beaches, or snorkel or scuba dive in the deep channel that runs offshore a short swim from the beach. Low tide exposes a multitude of pansy shells (one endemic to Mozambique) and dolphins surf along the coastline. •Ilha de Santa Carolina Boats ferry visitors from Vilankulos and Inhassoro to this isolated place of intense natural beauty. The hotel here is not operational so island visitors need to carry Lighthouse on Bazaruto Island a plentiful supply of water. BAZARUTO NATIONAL PARK FISHING Paradise lost, nirvana … the powdery feel Marlin fishing of sand between your toes, the shadows of (prime season is Oct–Dec) whispering palms playing out on white Black, blue and striped marlin beaches, aquamarine-cerulean water lapping Large gamefish the shore – this is what fills your vision (Apr/May–Aug/Sep) when you trip onto one of the five islands Sailfish, giant kingfish, wahoo, king mackerel, making up the archipelago. The largest is dorado, bonito Bazaruto – some 30km (18 miles) by roughly Smaller gamefish 3km (2 miles) – and the tiniest Bangué. In- (year-round) between, Benguerra, Magaruque and Santa King mackerel, bonito, trevally, queen Carolina (or Paradise Island) can all be mackerel visited. Rock & surf fishing In 2000 the Bazaruto National Park officially (evening high tide) consisted of a 150km2 marine park Kingfish, bonito, bonefish, gars encompassing Benguerra, Magaruque and Note: Tag and release fishing is the usual Bangué islands, together with a 5km (3- policy. mile) buffer zone around them. Bazaruto and Santa Carolina were listed as special BIRDLIFE vigilance zones, although plans were afoot (+/-164 different species) to incorporate these into the national park Green coucal in the future. The focus, in the meanwhile, Green pigeon is on allowing tourist development that Purple-banded and black sunbird benefits the islanders but also protects the Olive bee-eater ecology of the region and preserves selected Mannikin coral reefs. Paradise fly-catcher Park entry tickets must be purchased before Bartailed godwit visiting – try the Vilankulos WWF office or Whimbrel any registered tour operator. A small fee is Crab plover payable if you arrive on your own boat; no camping allowed on the islands. 44 Archipelago Bazaruto Archipelago Baza Ponta Dom Carlos Cabo Bazaruto H Hotel Seta Inhassoro Pestana Bazaruto Dhows Island Lodge Bazaruto EN1 Lighthouse Complexo Salema Mufundisse Chibique Ponta Estone Ponta Nhangosse Ponta Inhassoro Ponta Zenguelema (Park HQ) Guniça Ilha de Santa Carolina Guniça Dunes (Paradise Island) Ponta Tondo Ilha do Bazaruto Ponta Goane Ponta Gengareme o BábèLagoa Marsh g Nhassasse a Indigo Bay Island Resort H Ponta Chilola l Indigo Bay e Crocodiles p Lagoa i Ponta Múlideza Lergue Ponta Inhangondo h c Bazaruto r National Park A Ponta Pangaia Ponta Chuambo o Two Mile Chuambo t Reef u Ponta Dundo r Ponta Muanha Pansy a Island z Ilha de Canal De Moçambique a Benguerra SÓ VEICULOS TODO-TERRENO B Ponta Dundo Ponta Chinhongue Benguela Island Lodge Azura Lodge Marlin Lodge Ponta Cúbuê Ponta Cheringomo Ponta Comuine Inhambane Ponta Duvini Ilha de Magaruque Vilanculos Beach Lodge Ponta Chué Dona Ana H Ilha de N EN1 19 2 Vilankulo Bangué BAIA PARAISO, BLUE WATERS Casa Josef & Tina NOT TO SCALE 45 Central Region Central Region Centr CRY ME A RIVER River of legend and intrepid exploration, the Zambezi neatly bisects the country into two halves: the more popular and, today, much- visited southern region (due to its accessibility from both Zimbabwe and South Africa) and the remoter and sometimes impenetrable northern region, influenced more by Malawi 42 Tourist region maps and Tanzania. Mozambique’s destructive Cóbuè 2001 floods, which prevented the Caia ferry Gam from running for weeks, have reinforced the 46 Chapter opener maps Zambezi’s uncanny knack for creating formidable barriers to movement into the Point of interest Lichinga north. Flowing dead centre as it does across this sector of the country, this powerful waterway is kingpin of the Central Region. Cassacatiza NATURE ON THE REBOUND Lisula Mozambique’s central sector embraces three conservation areas within its fold, the most important of which is Gorongosa. Today battered and bruised from its civil-war role Panhame Zóbuè as headquarters for the Rhodesian-backed 103 Milange Renamo resistance movement, it is most Tete 52 heartening that in late 2007 an official wildlife count showed an unusually high number of ungulate species (sable, hartebeest and Changara oribi) and a surprisingly rich nocturnal- Canxixe Mo mammal life, including smaller carnivores. 102 Gili is still wild and untamed (yet with great potential) and Marromeu, on the Zambezi Inhamitanga delta, is receiving much attention for its prolific waterbirds – although its previously Gorongosa Gorongosa National 50 much-vaunted buffalo herds will take a while Park to return to their original numbers. Ga Chimoio EN6 A BRIDGE TOO FAR Travel north across the Central Region is 48 controlled by the vagaries of the Zambezi Espungabera Beira and the country’s long months of summer EN1 rain, mainly from November to April, which tend to swell countless rivers and transform Bazaruto Island the sandy, dusty, corrugated roads into a Zinave nightmarish quagmire. Which is why nothing National Park else but a 4x4 is recommended to take you Chicualacuala Mabote into these parts. Your options of crossing Vilankulo the Zambezi are few – the impressive Banhine suspension bridge at the heat-pit of Tete National town, the converted (in 1998) railway bridge Great Park EN1 between Sena and Morrumbula (although Limpopo Transfrontier very bad tracks at either end make it Reserve questionable) and the 22-ton vehicle ferries Inhambane at Caia, where it’s essential you sink lazily Macarretane into Africa time. The good news is that 2009 is the scheduled completion date for the construction of an US$85 million bridge. EN1 Xai-Xai EN4 Namaacha MAPUTO Reserva de Maputo (Maputo Elephant Reserve) Ponta do Ouro 46 entral Region Central Region Central R BEIRA … RELIVE THE MEMORIES The two attractions most likely to catch the attention of travellers to this neck of the Namuiranga Mozambican woods are the port city of Beira (despite these days being distinctly shabby) Negomano Mocímboa and the fascinating historical offshore isle, da Praia Ilha de Moçambique (yes, old, crumbling and ruined but oh, so slowly rising like a è Niassa Mueda phoenix out of the ashes). Many Game Reserve Mecula Zimbabweans and maybe some South Pemba Africans have fond memories of the good old days in Beira, eating spicy pink prawns ga at Johnny’s Place, dancing till dawn at the Montepuez Moulin Rouge or sipping espresso and eating Marrupa sweet custard pastries on the European-feel central square. These old haunts still exist, Fernão though not in their original guise – yet Beira Cuamba 59 Veloso may still shake off its shabby exterior, fluff out its tail feathers and glitter once more… 57 Nampula Mozambique