Marie & Emma's Travel Journal

Adventure begins when you leave the familiar behind

Kia ora, welcome to our journal!

We are home in NZ, preparing to depart to East Africa

African Adventures: The final leg (and 1 last country)

September 21, 2019

From Maputo there are a few of options to get to Johannesburg airport. Two of which go through Eswatini, our only question was which of these to take. To celebrate 50 years of independence, in April 2018 King Mswati III renamed Swaziland to Eswatini. The move was intended to signal a break with the colonial … More African Adventures: The final leg (and 1 last country)

Sunrise Caught: Hitting the beach in Mozambique

September 19, 2019

Sealed highway of varying conditions finally delivered us to Mozambique’s amazing sandy beaches in the early afternoon. This was it, the Indian Ocean. Our goal. We started in Namibia at the Atlantic Ocean and chased sunrise right across Southern Africa to the Indian Ocean in Mozambique. We detoured a short way off the highway to … More Sunrise Caught: Hitting the beach in Mozambique

Chasing Sunrise: Who doesn’t crave a gravel road? (Mozambique)

September 17, 2019

“They’re not friendly in Mozambique,” “traffic police target foreigners, they’ll turn your vehicle over,” “everyone wants to make you pay”. These were some of the comments made to us before we crossed the border into Mozambique. We were already braced for it being the hardest country: they speak Portuguese not English, its a big country … More Chasing Sunrise: Who doesn’t crave a gravel road? (Mozambique)