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Inhambane a dream destination - Mozambique

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When Vasco da Gama on his journey to India made its first stop on the east coast of Africa docked in the port of Inhambane . Warmly welcomed by its inhabitants, he does not hesitate to give this bay the name of the good people of Earth ...

Over 500 years after the passage of the Portuguese navigator region is always worth its name. The tradition of welcoming not disappeared. The visitor can still delight in a beautiful landscape, decorated with real coconut grove.

Inhambane also have areas for conservation of flora and fauna, including the National Park Zinave that is in the integration project in the Great Limpopo Park, Parque Nacional de Bazaruto and Pomene Reserve.

Inhambane is these days the share of Mozambique that is assigned the greatest potential for tourism development. The entire coastline from Quissico to the province of Sofala, is a long string of fine sandy beaches, dunes, palm extended, lagoons and a sea azulíssimo and immaculate. It was no accident, after all, the Mozambican public university decided to open the capital of the province four years ago, a School of Hospitality and Tourism.

Investments in the tourism sector - the vast majority of South Africans - have resulted in strong pressure on the coast dune formations, a fact that has sparked some media controversy. In some areas, the hotel industry has grown very rapidly and not always marked by quality concerns or coping with the natural sound.

Despite the growing influx of holidaymakers, there is, however, places less accessible, more distant from the lines of communication are served by sandy trails, which often only truly note the week-ends or at the peak of high season. But even so, more than five hundred kilometers of coastline retain a large number of small and beautiful beaches to discover, from which the traveler has a all-terrain.

In other words, the beaches of Inhambane not limited to the very popular islands of Bazaruto and are also not exactly a secret. In the middle ground between the busiest and most drives sidelined Sunday best, a figure of the sites 'historic' summer of Inhambane, just over ten minutes from the capital of the province: the beach of Tofo.

Perhaps in a few years, not many, certainly, the quiet of Tofo - and possibly other beaches in the region - not more than a memory. Implemented the project of a road that will connect directly to the Mpumalanga province, South Africa, the Mozambican coast, somewhere between Xai-Xai and Inhambane, the increased influx of tourists in South Africa will eventually lead to profound changes in the landscape and the economic activities in the province.

Tofo is the best place to practice diving in Mozambique, has about 20 dive sites between 5 and 45-50 minutes by boat.

The tip of Tofinho, very rich in plankton, has almost all year round whale sharks. In good time is not uncommon to see 20 to 30 whale sharks in the path of 30 meters is going to "Manta Reef", one of the most beautiful dive sites in the area.

Source: Traveler Soul

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