After a 15 hour flight, I'm finally in Mozambique. And I must say...it's great to be here. Mozambique is about 7 hours ahead of Chicago time. So it's about 6pm here. The weather right now is beautiful. It was about 50 degrees in Johannesburg, South Africa at 8:30am when we landed to change to our flight to Maputo. One we made it here, it was about 80-85 and sunny. I'm sitting by the pool at the hotel and it's about 60-65.
For the first few days, we're staying at this hotel in Maputo (the capital). Its really nice. It's more of a collection of individual villas on a property lined with gorgeous palm trees and landscaping than your normal idea of a hotel. We arent allowed to leave the hotel grounds, since the surrounding area is considered a popular hangout spot for the locals and its not safe for any of us to go there.
As it turns out, this weekend is supposedly a big "holiday weekend" so a lot of people from South Africa and Mozambique are heading to the many beaches in Mozambique. That explains why our hotel is full of younger people just hanging out. Also, since we're a group of 71 people, they had to split our group in half, and the other half is staying at another hotel across the city.
Anyway, I have to go. I'll update later!
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