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AERIAL VIEW OF THE CITY OF BEIRA DURING THE FLIGHT
The arrival was already an adventure by itself. It was nice, interesting actually.
Of course the driver that was supposed to be there waiting for me was not there,
I am quite used to that. The whole muvuca (unruly crowd) found in every airport,
people offering taxi services, doing this and doing that, and I didn’t have exchange money
and there was no currency exchange at the airport, so nowhere to
exchange money.
Then, I went out asking here and there, up until the moment I got to the X-ray machine security agents and they said:
“Try up there at the traffic area bar”.
So there I went and stayed, I started talking with people from the bar, got to know the barkeep lady,
Claudina, who lent me her phone,
and sent a text to my local friend,
Mrs. Amandia, who is from the Ministry of Science and Technology, and is also the one
who invited me, she told me the driver was on his way,
and Manuel went there to get me.
Here in Mozambique they drive in the opposite side of the road,
as they do in England.
My friend, what’s your name again?
- Manuel
Manuel, Manuel... Ops, we are stopping here.
So here we came, passing by a very poor section of the city,
with many street markets, large ones,
and you can see that’s where people buy their food, their clothing… Well, at a first impression
there is no way one could not remember Angola.
There are many similarities in the city’s structure,
an urban and social status that very much so resembles the city of Luanda, in Angola.
However, the hotel area of the city is very pleasant. In a little while I will
go by the Indian Ocean to take more pictures.