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@@TREADtheglobe When you visit South Africa again some day soon, please make your way down to Port Elizabeth where we stay, and then down the Garden Route through to Cape Town. I promise you there will be no regrets.
Amazing that you visited Durban and now our neighbouring country. Our people’s. Our fauna and flora are the gift of Africa (let alone her resources). I commend you on your curiosity, joy and laughter you share as you encounter people. Humanity in action. ❤
I worked for years on South African Gold Mines and IF you got a Mozambican as a helper you were very lucky as they are very intelligent people always thinking ahead and very positive and hard working and friendly ! LOVE MOZAMBICANS !!!!!!!!!!
I believe you, I had a Mozambiquen builder do a floor concreting job for me in Cape Town. He had four South Africans working for him. He did 50 %of the job himself and the other 50 % was done by the four South Africans. I asked him why as he was the boss. He said if he didn't join in the job will never get done as South Africans are lazy. This is not made up, I saw it with my own eyes.
I lived in Maputo between 1990 till 1993 as a Diplomat. People are very kind. Climate is fine food is super. Fruits are fantastic. This footage reminds me all those good years. My elder daughter was born in Maputo she is my best favourit child. ❤❤❤
What an unexpected surprise, and you’ve been so blessed with wonderful local friends as you go. In the long run, you have made lifelong friendships around the world. Beautiful Africa.
Pretty awe inspiring! Thanks for sharing your story of Mozambique with us. Snippets of the landscapes remind me a little of certain Caribbean islands and the American south. People living close to the land the way our ancestors did for many thousands of years kinda brings us hope that all is not lost to modern technology and AI. Don’t know if I’ll ever get to Mozambique but for now your video will suffice just fine. I do know that the native music there mainly the drumming the bests are very intricate and moving emotionally. The richness of Africa and its many diverse cultures has got to be one of the seventh or eighth or ninth wonders of the world! Love seeing the wild life out in plain sight which is a constant reminder that planet Earth belongs to all of God’s creation not just humans.
Ha Ha - even though we talk all the time - we miss you too !! And we can't wait to all be together again - love to you both and the Turkish chosen family xx 🌷😉🌺🏆
I live in Mozambique and my kids go to school in eSwatini. So interesting to hear a different perspective on a journey I do monthly and consider just normal
As I have learned from watching your videos, there's three levels of a improvised DIY project of necessity: 1) dodgy bodge 2) artful hack 3) Blue Peter moment. Trudy's roof hatch repair definitely qualifies as top tier having passed the grueling African thunderstorm test! 😱😱 What gracious hosts are Avni and Sibel! ❤️ I really enjoyed the mini safari - particularly the belly laughing. 🤣😂😆 What a lovely park up spot at the end. You didn't have to share it with anyone, but you shared it with all of us! ❤️❤️😎👍xx
I'm from South Africa, Gauteng Brakpan. Thank you for sharing the lovely country of Africa with me. You live a life I can only dream about. Be safe, and may the Lord be with you 😊.
Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa are all beautiful places to visit places to visit. All very different and especially South Africa is very diverse from province to province. That will be a tour all by it self.
I really like Marianne and Chris’s personalities - their politeness to everyone they meet and their respectful attitude. But I also like their unflappability in the face of odds which would daunt most people, and Chris’s boundless enthusiasm. Keep on trucking!
I am portuguese, and grew up in Mozambique, and in Maputo (the last 2 years right up to the independence of the country in 1975. Your video brought back memories from those years. Thank you!
Thank you so much for the update, been thinking about you wonderful people, and hoping you are still safe and enjoying yourselves. (Spoken as one who, years ago, got stuck in the mud with my mother, in the Kruger. We got rescued by an American tourist bus! When the AA went later to tow our vehicle it was surrounded by lions!! For me Africa just never gets old.) In the comments someone said you are back in Good Old Blighty. What a fantastic achievement! Must be wonderful to be home, but hope you come back. Xx
Yep, as Marianne said at the end of the episode, "You're in Africa!" Inspiring you both are... Just inspiring... Good luck on your journeys Marco Polos...
A bit scary to be there all on your own . Hope all went well and you had a lovely time. Such beautiful places on this earth, if only politicians wouldn't have other plans.
Awesome video as always Chris and Marianne. Africa has some amazing landscape but just like everywhere else in the world it’s rough and rugged terrain is slow being tamed by modern civilization. Thanks for letting us ride along with y’all on y’all’s journey around the world.
i spent 4 good years in Turkey,British,Bodrum area,Merhaba Avni and Sibel,Tessakur Ederim,this blog brings back memories of my 10 years in South Africa and several drives to Maputo,then Lourenco Marques(late 60s to late 70s)Turkish food is good,my favourite was Adana kebab
Fabulous... You're bringing back memories of hitchhiking down Africa decades ago.. I still have two tapes of African music with that beat I hear in the video.. and two of the colorful wraparound materials I bought and still use.. and the nshima.. Africa has such a beautiful light and feel of far horizons... Beautiful..
Being a native South African, seeing you both at the campsite with a van driven all the way from the UK really hit a happy nerve with me. I have always wanted to drive from the UK back to South Africa. Mozambique looked amazing too. You are both awesome and having the absolute adventure your lives.
Wow what a lovely place an the food an ppl are so lovely me an the wife would like to go there such great entertainment love your vlogs keep up having fun an the innocents of discovery and for us in old blighty love u guys xx
So I am a relatively new viewer and am now voraciously watching. I already have 2 ideas: I love watching Chris filming Marianne as she is walking into a new place-shrines, marketplaces, etc. You should make a series of clips of her in-front walks and maybe even caption their locations. Also Chris, your laugh cracks me up. I would love a series of clips with your laugh. It would be hilarious! Please note that this is my very first comment on UA-cam ever! Now, returning to watch Mozambique!
Bit of trivia: "Your" actor Richard E. Grant was born in Eswatini (Swaziland, back then) and went to university in Cape Town. The "E" is in fact an abbreviation of his real (Afrikaans) surname, from his real full names of Richard Grant Esterhuysen. Now you know... 😉
The fruit from the baoboa tree that you tasted, the tree is magnificent…really thick high trunk and spindle branches on top…keep an eye out you can’t miss them. Really enjoying seeing everything…stay safe..new zealand
Hello Ambassadors Wild nature there. I loved it. I must say this again that I wouldn't have been able to deal with that muddy roads. I got stuck in sugar sands before but MUD..Holy god .. Marianne. You are one courageous driver..let me give you this credit.👍👍All video was great! Thank you! Florida sends love to you both💕💕🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🌺
Love the videos we are on travel with you around the world, love your bravery and adventurous spirit. I want to be like you when we grow😅 up. Keep them coming, I feel like I am there everyday on every trip. I also travel a lot, but not so adventurous. Keep safe❤❤❤😊
Thank u guys for sharing your trip experiences in Africa I am frm Zimbabwe but got to visit my neighboring countries thru this…thank you nd may you finish your trip well treasure your experience you ar blessed🙏🏾❤️😍
'Roads turned to sand'.....best description of the conditions that people can relate to...getting stuck on summer trips to the beach. Thanks for reminding me of M/F "Obrigado/a".
Wow, what an adventure!! I am so happy you showed the food. I am not getting out to Africa anytime soon..maybe never lol. I loved sampling with you😅 Ty
The greenish/yellow trees you saw at 47:xx are "Fever Trees". It's a thorny "acacia" (which has been given a new genus lately, by the look of things) that grows in damp, low lying areas (so would often be associated with mosquitoes, and "bad air" that goes with damp, and so with "fever" or malaria). When they're in full leaf, they filter the sunlight, so that the light under them is that same "greeny-yellow" colour. Slightly strange, and pretty. The lands between Delagoa Bay (Maputo) and roughly Pretoriuskop in Kruger, as well as the area round the bay itself, were a notorious "fever belt" in the old days, and passing through there was considered risky. My great grandfather was a "transport rider" in that region as a young man during the days of the Barberton gold rush. They would pick up machinery at the bay in ox wagons, and then get these up through or over the mountains to the goldfields (if they could). It was a very good - if risky - living until the railways came. (He borrowed money from his mother to buy a wagon and a team of oxen when he was about 17 or 18, and headed off up to Delagoa Bay to start the transport business. Made a fortune, and went into farming when the railways took over. I don't know what happened to the fortune. Dispersed into a big family I suppose. I think there were ten kids in their family.) If you haven't read it yet, now might be a good time to get hold of a copy of Jock of the Bushveld, which tells the story of a hero dog who had a transport rider for his companion. They did the same job as my great grandad. Jock was more famous than him, though.
If you have a chance , you should really try to visit one of South Africa’s 3 Capital cities . If you guys thought Durban was vibrant , you’ll love Cape Town or Pretoria .
What you called polenta is called mielie meal in South Africa. It's ground up maize & is a staple food. The baobab seed is where creme of tartare comes from. The dark sweet potato is called a Mdumbi! It's a whitish grey colour & is kind of slimy. An acquired taste.
Iam born in Mozambique ....i miss it so much....i have lovely memories....i live in South Africa many years ....i would love to visit my birth country one day
My husband is almost 65 and ready to retire. I only wish he had the desire to travel! I'd love to go exploring before I cant get around anymore! Thank you for sharing your journey so people like me get to see places we will more than likely never see!😊
We are so happy you are enjoying the videos - we are thinking of hosting a private group trip to a few different destinations over the next 2 years - if you think you might like to come, please do sign up to the newsletter (from the website) and stay tuned for places, dates, prices etc ... kind regards Marianne
Yeah... local knowledge is the best !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Glad you never drove Tudy into that sandy national park, because she would have never made it out. Glad someone came to help your friends car, when help was needed, It was wonderful visiting the african market and finding out, what veggies or fruits are used for in Africa. Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The advacado was enormous, as big as your head Marianne. The special green vegetable meal with prawns looked good and Turkish dinner yummy
What an amazing adventure you two are on, and in a two-wheel drive camper van too. Wow. I've always wanted to go to Mozambique. Thanks for the very interesting view. And I love your wonderfully kind and positive attitudes as you venture on into the relatively unknown to a lot of the Western world. I have two questions, BTW: Do you ever pick up hitchers along the way in this part of the world? Does the unfamiliar food in these parts ever give you digestive problems? Cheers
Go for it! In answer to your questions - we used to before Covid, but somehow we have just got used to not doing that anymore .... And yes we have had a few tummy troubles - but not in Africa 🙏🌺
@@TREADtheglobe - thanks for answering me so quickly. I have a friend who'd homesteaded a farm not far from Durban back in the day, which of course would have been way before Covid. Evidently, it was common then to pick up hitchers in South Africa, even being perceived as rude if not doing so. I just wondered about now and don't know if I would feel comfortable doing so as a tourist either. In Ireland too, especially in more rural areas, not to pick up a hitcher would be seen as unfriendly. I'm also a retired international educator and often had food issues in China and Russia. Never in the West. Some of the South African fare does look so yummy.
I know you are back in the UK but what a way to end your trip! Congratulations to you both and Trudy - it’s been a joy watching you. I joined you in Japan and now I’m going back to start at your beginning. Looking forward to your next adventure! Have a great return party! 🎉🚌🎉🚌🎉🚌🎉🚌
Enjoyed your latest video.on Mozambique, was sad that the title gave the wrong impression considering the trip was quite enjoyable and hardly "seriously shocking"
I was brought up in Lourenço Marques - Mozambique. It was very popular as the city was beautiful , well-kept, Gorgeous beaches, shops, cafés and more. Cannot find any trace of this! Sad that further down no one had the opportunity to enjoy a delightful and chic city. ❤
What wonderful friends you have. They were such good hosts showing you around the city. Is fish the main protein there? I saw there were chickens. And Nolene was such a lovely guide too. Im more impressed with the people than the sights, tho it is very interesting.
In some ways I'm glad I know you made it back to SA and to the port to ship home, and aren't stuck in a sand pit in Namibia. Top adventures pushing Trudy's limits for this final leg; but wise move to do the more adventurous loops in a friends 4x4.
Du mericadu grande.😅 I think that's how we said it. I loved that place you can find anything there. 😊 You were sucking on a seed from the Bao Bab tree. That sudden storm is not normal for this time of year in Mozambique. They don't normally get rain in winter. The street food is amazing. Oh you have seriously made me miss beautiful Mozambique ❤ That country is so full of amazing people with incredible hearts!!! Swaziland is also a great country, but Moz is still the best! Enjoy your journey and mind all the Animals that free roam all over the place 🙏🏻 😢 HUGE Crocodiles 🐊 wherever there's water 😂 take care.
That road you are on is a good example of what you will have to deal with driving around Southern Africa. Especially Natal Province. But it's worth it!
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@@TREADtheglobe When you visit South Africa again some day soon, please make your way down to Port Elizabeth where we stay, and then down the Garden Route through to Cape Town.
I promise you there will be no regrets.
The dish that you guys had in that turkey restaurant it's called matapa the cassava leaves ❤️❤️😋😋
I think that Trudie would want to retire after this trip. It is best to have a 4×4 and not a 2×4 in Botswana and Mozambique.
Africa gets into your soul...came here in 86 and ain't leaving. 😊
Amazing that you visited Durban and now our neighbouring country. Our people’s. Our fauna and flora are the gift of Africa (let alone her resources). I commend you on your curiosity, joy and laughter you share as you encounter people. Humanity in action. ❤
I worked for years on South African Gold Mines and IF you got a Mozambican as a helper you were very lucky as they are very intelligent people always thinking ahead and very positive and hard working and friendly ! LOVE MOZAMBICANS !!!!!!!!!!
I believe you, I had a Mozambiquen builder do a floor concreting job for me in Cape Town. He had four South Africans working for him. He did 50 %of the job himself and the other 50 % was done by the four South Africans. I asked him why as he was the boss. He said if he didn't join in the job will never get done as South Africans are lazy. This is not made up, I saw it with my own eyes.
@@nelsonchinasamy9857everybody knows that.
@@nelsonchinasamy9857 Very true ! Mozambicans are Great !!!!
The situation you describe is typical ! Mozambicans are grafters ! Hard workers !
@@nelsonchinasamy9857 so you believe his story that South Africans are lazy?, pathetic.
I just love how everyone welcomes you with open arms and such kindness ❤ Beautiful journey you have been on I just love it ❤ Thank you for sharing 👍
Very, very different from South African Africans. Mozambicans are such humble people!
I lived in Maputo between 1990 till 1993 as a Diplomat. People are very kind. Climate is fine food is super. Fruits are fantastic. This footage reminds me all those good years. My elder daughter was born in Maputo she is my best favourit child. ❤❤❤
Great video…welcome to my beautiful Mozambique ❤❤❤🇲🇿
Mozambique is clean, friendly people, beautiful beaches, ocean , and wonderful food.
Clean??
What an unexpected surprise, and you’ve been so blessed with wonderful local friends as you go. In the long run, you have made lifelong friendships around the world. Beautiful Africa.
Pretty awe inspiring! Thanks for sharing your story of Mozambique with us. Snippets of the landscapes remind me a little of certain Caribbean islands and the American south. People living close to the land the way our ancestors did for many thousands of years kinda brings us hope that all is not lost to modern technology and AI. Don’t know if I’ll ever get to Mozambique but for now your video will suffice just fine. I do know that the native music there mainly the drumming the bests are very intricate and moving emotionally. The richness of Africa and its many diverse cultures has got to be one of the seventh or eighth or ninth wonders of the world! Love seeing the wild life out in plain sight which is a constant reminder that planet Earth belongs to all of God’s creation not just humans.
...a typo: "the drumming the BEATS"
Thank you for making us relive our great times in Maputo together. Please come visit us again guys! We miss you lots.
Ha Ha - even though we talk all the time - we miss you too !! And we can't wait to all be together again - love to you both and the Turkish chosen family xx 🌷😉🌺🏆
I love how Chris laughs when he likes the taste of food. When that happens, I know it's good! Mozambique looks amazing.
Fantastic! The roads are just like ours here in Bulgaria, big potholes. Thanks again for sharing the experience .
I live in Mozambique and my kids go to school in eSwatini. So interesting to hear a different perspective on a journey I do monthly and consider just normal
I love the positivity. The world needs to have your love of people.
As I have learned from watching your videos, there's three levels of a improvised DIY project of necessity: 1) dodgy bodge 2) artful hack 3) Blue Peter moment. Trudy's roof hatch repair definitely qualifies as top tier having passed the grueling African thunderstorm test! 😱😱
What gracious hosts are Avni and Sibel! ❤️ I really enjoyed the mini safari - particularly the belly laughing. 🤣😂😆
What a lovely park up spot at the end. You didn't have to share it with anyone, but you shared it with all of us! ❤️❤️😎👍xx
Wat een prachtige beelden en natuur en een mooi land en wat een plezier hebben jullie steeds bedankt dat wij mogen mee genieten top👍👍🙏🚍😘
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I'm from South Africa, Gauteng Brakpan. Thank you for sharing the lovely country of Africa with me. You live a life I can only dream about. Be safe, and may the Lord be with you 😊.
I'm sure you mean well pal but Africa is a continent.
Thank you SİBEL and AVNİ for their TURKISH hospitality...
Amazing video that really captures the feeling of being in Mozambique1 It makes me want to play that song by Bob Dylan!
Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa are all beautiful places to visit places to visit. All very different and especially South Africa is very diverse from province to province. That will be a tour all by it self.
I really like Marianne and Chris’s personalities - their politeness to everyone they meet and their respectful attitude. But I also like their unflappability in the face of odds which would daunt most people, and Chris’s boundless enthusiasm. Keep on trucking!
Beautiful people with smiles that would light up a room ❤
love Swaziland the air is amazing vibe🎉❤🎉 enjoy
I am portuguese, and grew up in Mozambique, and in Maputo (the last 2 years right up to the independence of the country in 1975. Your video brought back memories from those years. Thank you!
I worked in Mozambique too, for about 6 months in Beira, i loved the country and its people
Oh wow! I loved this so much! Swaziland is for sure my most fave! Such a beautiful country. And Namibia! My heart is Africa!
Thank you so much for the update, been thinking about you wonderful people, and hoping you are still safe and enjoying yourselves. (Spoken as one who, years ago, got stuck in the mud with my mother, in the Kruger. We got rescued by an American tourist bus! When the AA went later to tow our vehicle it was surrounded by lions!! For me Africa just never gets old.) In the comments someone said you are back in Good Old Blighty. What a fantastic achievement! Must be wonderful to be home, but hope you come back. Xx
One love from Johannesburg, South Africa, you two are such a cute couple.
I'm from Zimbabwe but have never been to our neighbour Mozambique. I enjoyed watching it through your eyes. 😊❤
Yep, as Marianne said at the end of the episode, "You're in Africa!" Inspiring you both are... Just inspiring... Good luck on your journeys Marco Polos...
A bit scary to be there all on your own . Hope all went well and you had a lovely time. Such beautiful places on this earth, if only politicians wouldn't have other plans.
Mozambique is unique.
When I lived in South Africa (for 34 years), we often heard about wild storms in Mozambique, and had quite a few in the Eastern Cape too.
Seasonal rains. Every year.
Awesome video as always Chris and Marianne. Africa has some amazing landscape but just like everywhere else in the world it’s rough and rugged terrain is slow being tamed by modern civilization. Thanks for letting us ride along with y’all on y’all’s journey around the world.
Always look forward to seeing your videos. Really enjoy seeing different cultures. Thank you.
i spent 4 good years in Turkey,British,Bodrum area,Merhaba Avni and Sibel,Tessakur Ederim,this blog brings back memories of my 10 years in South Africa and several drives to Maputo,then Lourenco Marques(late 60s to late 70s)Turkish food is good,my favourite was Adana kebab
WOOOW IM SO IMPRESSED BY YOUR VIDEOS GUYS ENJOY YOUR JOURNEY GOD BLESS 🙏
Definitely time for a 4 x 4 vehicle adventurers. With the exchange rate in South Africa a vehicle would not be too expensive
Fabulous... You're bringing back memories of hitchhiking down Africa decades ago..
I still have two tapes of African music with that beat I hear in the video.. and two of the colorful wraparound materials I bought and still use.. and the nshima..
Africa has such a beautiful light and feel of far horizons...
Beautiful..
Wow - that is lovely ... thank you for sharing your experience too - we loved it and are grateful for these memories 🌺🙌
Being a native South African, seeing you both at the campsite with a van driven all the way from the UK really hit a happy nerve with me. I have always wanted to drive from the UK back to South Africa. Mozambique looked amazing too. You are both awesome and having the absolute adventure your lives.
Wow what a lovely place an the food an ppl are so lovely me an the wife would like to go there such great entertainment love your vlogs keep up having fun an the innocents of discovery and for us in old blighty love u guys xx
So I am a relatively new viewer and am now voraciously watching. I already have 2 ideas: I love watching Chris filming Marianne as she is walking into a new place-shrines, marketplaces, etc. You should make a series of clips of her in-front walks and maybe even caption their locations.
Also Chris, your laugh cracks me up. I would love a series of clips with your laugh. It would be hilarious!
Please note that this is my very first comment on UA-cam ever! Now, returning to watch Mozambique!
Awesome , fabulous and spectacular ❤❤❤ great you enjoying southern 🎉🎉🎉Africa
Bit of trivia: "Your" actor Richard E. Grant was born in Eswatini (Swaziland, back then) and went to university in Cape Town. The "E" is in fact an abbreviation of his real (Afrikaans) surname, from his real full names of Richard Grant Esterhuysen. Now you know... 😉
He lives in Petersham now. :)
Wow that's interesting thanks. I never knew he had an Afrikaans surname!
Such a pity you didn't go further up the coast to Xai-Xai. Its beautiful out there...a real paradise.
We agree !Such beautiful places in Mozambique that they could have seen !
Nalya youtuber xai xaili bize gösterdi gerçekten çok güzel
Oh we agree, but we will be back for more - but feel very blessed to have been able to get to visit our friends on our around the world challenge
👋 nice to see all the wave's !! So sandy soil there !
Thank you for taking us along ❤ great
Amazing, this part of your journey is really"outside the box". Wow!
Thanks - it has been epic !!
Another fantastic travelogue! Thankyou.! You are such professionals now.
Love from Australia. Xx 🐨🌈🙏🏼❤️
The fruit from the baoboa tree that you tasted, the tree is magnificent…really thick high trunk and spindle branches on top…keep an eye out you can’t miss them. Really enjoying seeing everything…stay safe..new zealand
Hello Ambassadors
Wild nature there. I loved it.
I must say this again that I wouldn't have been able to deal with that muddy roads.
I got stuck in sugar sands before but MUD..Holy god .. Marianne. You are one courageous driver..let me give you this credit.👍👍All video was great! Thank you!
Florida sends love to you both💕💕🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🌺
Thanks 👍🌺😉
Love the videos we are on travel with you around the world, love your bravery and adventurous spirit. I want to be like you when we grow😅 up. Keep them coming, I feel like I am there everyday on every trip. I also travel a lot, but not so adventurous. Keep safe❤❤❤😊
Welcome to eswatini (Swaziland) the country I am from, enjoy the beautiful scenery and we have quite a few game Reserves that are lovely..
Oh we agree, but we will be back for more - but feel very blessed to have been able to get to visit our friends on our around the world challenge -
Looks amazing
Good luck ☘️with your journey
Loved going to the market to eat their sardines and prawns are awesome as well as their pao (bread rolls) hope I spelt it correctly
Thank u guys for sharing your trip experiences in Africa I am frm Zimbabwe but got to visit my neighboring countries thru this…thank you nd may you finish your trip well treasure your experience you ar blessed🙏🏾❤️😍
'Roads turned to sand'.....best description of the conditions that people can relate to...getting stuck on summer trips to the beach. Thanks for reminding me of M/F "Obrigado/a".
❤ watching your travels and learning about so many different cultures and countries! Thank you for taking us along on your journey.
Thanks for watching!
Fascinating place. This is real travel
Wow, what an adventure!! I am so happy you showed the food. I am not getting out to Africa anytime soon..maybe never lol. I loved sampling with you😅 Ty
Thanks for another amazing video.
The greenish/yellow trees you saw at 47:xx are "Fever Trees". It's a thorny "acacia" (which has been given a new genus lately, by the look of things) that grows in damp, low lying areas (so would often be associated with mosquitoes, and "bad air" that goes with damp, and so with "fever" or malaria). When they're in full leaf, they filter the sunlight, so that the light under them is that same "greeny-yellow" colour. Slightly strange, and pretty.
The lands between Delagoa Bay (Maputo) and roughly Pretoriuskop in Kruger, as well as the area round the bay itself, were a notorious "fever belt" in the old days, and passing through there was considered risky.
My great grandfather was a "transport rider" in that region as a young man during the days of the Barberton gold rush. They would pick up machinery at the bay in ox wagons, and then get these up through or over the mountains to the goldfields (if they could). It was a very good - if risky - living until the railways came.
(He borrowed money from his mother to buy a wagon and a team of oxen when he was about 17 or 18, and headed off up to Delagoa Bay to start the transport business. Made a fortune, and went into farming when the railways took over. I don't know what happened to the fortune. Dispersed into a big family I suppose. I think there were ten kids in their family.)
If you haven't read it yet, now might be a good time to get hold of a copy of Jock of the Bushveld, which tells the story of a hero dog who had a transport rider for his companion. They did the same job as my great grandad. Jock was more famous than him, though.
🌹❤️🌹 Wonderful video . I really appreciate seeing your adventures ❤️🌹❤️
LOVING THE ZEBRA CROSSINGS
What a beautiful countywide, and people,,, xx
So glad you’re loving Africa . 👏👏
Nothing beats an African sunset :) btw those trees in the end of the video are my fave tree - Fever trees!
Wow soooooo nice and amazing 😍🤩 have fun 😊👍👌❤️
If you have a chance , you should really try to visit one of South Africa’s 3 Capital cities .
If you guys thought Durban was vibrant , you’ll love Cape Town or Pretoria .
What you called polenta is called mielie meal in South Africa. It's ground up maize & is a staple food.
The baobab seed is where creme of tartare comes from.
The dark sweet potato is called a Mdumbi! It's a whitish grey colour & is kind of slimy. An acquired taste.
In Mozambique we call in difrente our local languages ( maputo they call Xima ..
I visited Eswatini in 2017. Nice to see it again via your video! It's a special place.
It is .... 😉🌺
Very cool episode. Nicely explained and edited. We love tuning in.
Iam born in Mozambique ....i miss it so much....i have lovely memories....i live in South Africa many years ....i would love to visit my birth country one day
I think you should consider fitting all terrain tyres on the drive wheels, of your 2 wheel drive camper van.
Hi Chris and Mariann great video love Mozambique you both look much happier since you left Indis ❤💙 xx
Im getting to this video today. Sending love from Cape Town.
My husband is almost 65 and ready to retire. I only wish he had the desire to travel! I'd love to go exploring before I cant get around anymore! Thank you for sharing your journey so people like me get to see places we will more than likely never see!😊
We are so happy you are enjoying the videos - we are thinking of hosting a private group trip to a few different destinations over the next 2 years - if you think you might like to come, please do sign up to the newsletter (from the website) and stay tuned for places, dates, prices etc ... kind regards Marianne
Loving this series ❤
Yeah...
local knowledge is the best !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glad you never drove Tudy into that sandy national park,
because she would have never made it out.
Glad someone came to help your friends car, when help was needed,
It was wonderful visiting the african market and finding out, what veggies or fruits are used for
in Africa.
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The advacado
was enormous,
as big as your head Marianne.
The special green vegetable meal with prawns looked good and Turkish dinner yummy
Thank you for sharing i was born in Maputo 63 years ago. enjoyed it very much. But i am sad, i brings good memories.. Enjoy it. Take care.
I love that you say deer in the road. They are actually called buck.
Get use to them potholes there's plenty here when you get back home 😮
Mozambique is amazing and i actually went there in December. I am planning to go back again since my children's paternal family are from that side.
That rain reminds me of home 😂 Got to love summer in Newcastle Upon Tyne! Xx
What an amazing adventure you two are on, and in a two-wheel drive camper van too. Wow. I've always wanted to go to Mozambique. Thanks for the very interesting view. And I love your wonderfully kind and positive attitudes as you venture on into the relatively unknown to a lot of the Western world.
I have two questions, BTW:
Do you ever pick up hitchers along the way in this part of the world?
Does the unfamiliar food in these parts ever give you digestive problems?
Cheers
Go for it! In answer to your questions - we used to before Covid, but somehow we have just got used to not doing that anymore .... And yes we have had a few tummy troubles - but not in Africa 🙏🌺
@@TREADtheglobe - thanks for answering me so quickly. I have a friend who'd homesteaded a farm not far from Durban back in the day, which of course would have been way before Covid. Evidently, it was common then to pick up hitchers in South Africa, even being perceived as rude if not doing so. I just wondered about now and don't know if I would feel comfortable doing so as a tourist either. In Ireland too, especially in more rural areas, not to pick up a hitcher would be seen as unfriendly.
I'm also a retired international educator and often had food issues in China and Russia. Never in the West. Some of the South African fare does look so yummy.
Very enjoyable vlog guys 😃👍
So excited for your African adventure! Enjoy guys and safe travels! 😊
I'm watching from Loerie in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Thank you for sharing the countries you visited.
Love viewing your travels. 👏
Your headline said seriously shocking. Why was it shocking. Did I miss a bit ?
Possibly seriously shocking to discover it is so beautiful!
Hmmm shocking gives wrong impression
My parents used to live in (then) Swaziland and I spent a lot of time visiting them. I miss those green hills!!
I know you are back in the UK but what a way to end your trip! Congratulations to you both and Trudy - it’s been a joy watching you. I joined you in Japan and now I’m going back to start at your beginning. Looking forward to your next adventure! Have a great return party! 🎉🚌🎉🚌🎉🚌🎉🚌
Enjoyed your latest video.on Mozambique, was sad that the title gave the wrong impression considering the trip was quite enjoyable and hardly "seriously shocking"
You are right. I came here attracted by the title hoping to find something weird about my country but found none
Lovely video. There is so much to see that I cannot decide what I do like most.
Brilliant 👍
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Stay safe guys. God bless you ans your journey, take care of your health.
I was brought up in Lourenço Marques - Mozambique. It was very popular as the city was beautiful , well-kept,
Gorgeous beaches, shops, cafés and more. Cannot find any trace of this! Sad that further down no one had the opportunity to enjoy a delightful and chic city. ❤
What wonderful friends you have. They were such good hosts showing you around the city. Is fish the main protein there? I saw there were chickens. And Nolene was such a lovely guide too. Im more impressed with the people than the sights, tho it is very interesting.
Fish & sea food are the main protein & of course cashew nuts.
The maize meal buns are called vetkoek (fat cake) & any filling is great (sweet or savoury).
In some ways I'm glad I know you made it back to SA and to the port to ship home, and aren't stuck in a sand pit in Namibia.
Top adventures pushing Trudy's limits for this final leg; but wise move to do the more adventurous loops in a friends 4x4.
16:21 You both scrub up well! You look very smart.
Du mericadu grande.😅 I think that's how we said it. I loved that place you can find anything there. 😊
You were sucking on a seed from the Bao Bab tree.
That sudden storm is not normal for this time of year in Mozambique. They don't normally get rain in winter.
The street food is amazing. Oh you have seriously made me miss beautiful Mozambique ❤ That country is so full of amazing people with incredible hearts!!!
Swaziland is also a great country, but Moz is still the best!
Enjoy your journey and mind all the Animals that free roam all over the place 🙏🏻 😢 HUGE Crocodiles 🐊 wherever there's water 😂 take care.
That road you are on is a good example of what you will have to deal with driving around Southern Africa. Especially Natal Province. But it's worth it!