OVERLANDING into the MSR (Maputo Special Reserve) - Lost in Mozambique Episode 4

Описание: In this episode we head North into the relatively isolated Maputo Special Reserve to look for rogue elephants, and do some serious sand four wheel driving, after quickly stocking up on fresh food, fuel and water in Ponta do Ouro.

The drive into the reserve is actually remarkable simple, although low range four wheel drive, and deflated tyres really are needed, it's only made tricky by some wayward GPS directions, that we luckily ignored.

The reserve is an incredible vast wilderness, with massive lakes, beautiful savannahs, and dunes covered in thick vegetation! The game densities are relatively low, but we still saw a lot, and some unusual animals as well! We really want to find the infamous Mozambican elephants, the older ones are survivors of the war years, and have not got the fondest memories of humans.

The rehabilitation of this park, and a few others like it by Peace Parks and other organisations, is hopefully going to be one of the big focuses of our time in Mozambique!

We eventially make our way through to Ponta Membene the site of the brand new camp that has been built. It is incredibly isolated and wild, but with some creature comforts like private ablutions, and a trickle of power in the evenings to charge your cellphones, so for us it ticks a lot of the boxes for the perfect camp site!

I caught covid this week back in Johannesburg unfortunately, so the video is a little late, and my VO might not be perfect, so apologies for that! It also means we are stuck in JHB at the moment, but don't worry there are at least 3 more Lost in Mozambique episodes before we run out of that content, and by then we are really hoping to be back in Moz making our way up to Gorongosa!

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