Porto de Oro, Mozambique

This is just a house I like in Porto de Oro, Mozambique....See below for more comments on Porto de Oro and how I hope we end up living there.....















A bombed out, burned out house in Porto de Oro, reminders of the civil war (which South Africa played a big role in, of course). I'm hoping this is the community on the Mozambique side that Chris and I will spend the majority of our time in. On the South African side, it's Manguzi--but I'd rather live here and travel to South Africa once a week. Since I will be writing about this border community that's formed regardless of war and because one side of the border offers ammenities that the other does not, I imainge this will be a good place to conduct a lot of oral interviews. People will remember what it was like during the war.













Another bombed out house from the civil war...











And a local bar in Mozambique....I love the little "drink local beer" sign...
















Here's a local grocery story near Porto de Oro, Mozambique. You'll notice that the building structures are quite different than the Zulu round hut below.









This is a rather spectacular example of a traditional Zulu hut. A local teacher in Manguzi built it and evidently knew what he/she was doing.