Gorongosa National Park

We finally arrived at gorongosa national park so find that we did not really have enough fuel to actually drive IN the park, so made the 200km round trip to Chimoio to get fuel. This town is about 100km from the Zim border and we saw plenty guys there doing their shopping. As for a place to see is was really a non event so we fuelled up and headed straight to Gorongosa.
Gorongosa is in the process of being re stocked and re developed. During the civil war it was in fact the base camp for the frilimo forces and the unsuspecting game were the main course. An American by the name of Greg Carr has injected something like $40 million to reinstating the park to its original glory as a premier African game park. The people working here are very proud of what is being done and a pleasure to talk to. The park has already employed around 1000 locals and as the park progresses this number is sure to grow.
Granted we went on a game drive and never saw any big cats but the park is still in its very early stages and where the animals are not in quarantine, they are still very shy due to previous poaching. Gorongosa has an agreement with the Kruger National Park with animal exchanges. It was really something to see a game park being rebuilt in this way and we would definitely love to head back in a few years to see the transformation.
Unfortunately due to the rain that arrived with a vengeance quite a lot of the park was closed due to the roads being flooded, so we only spent 2 nights before heading into Vilancoulos.
On arriving in Vilancoulos we drove around, I managed to get the wrath of Rohan as I thought I would park under a nice shady tree and forgot the height of the cruiser and almost manager to remove the roof rack with the trunk of the tree. Mmmm....enough said!!
We stayed at a place called Blue Water which was an amazing location on the beach away from the bussling little town and had the most awesome swimming pool just before the beach. In the next year is going to be flattened and there is a developer coming in to build a hotel. Will be interesting to see.
The next morning we took the road to Inhambane where my mom was flying in to meet us...