Mozambique - Falando Portuguese with the Ghosts of Empire

With its long sandy beaches and many offshore islands, the beautiful coastline of Mozambique in East Africa has long been something of a mystery to surfers. 

With a history of war dating from the independence conflict with Portugal in the 1960’s to the civil war that followed the departure of the Portuguese from all their African colonies in 1975, most of the country was inaccessible to casual visitors until a peace agreement was signed in 1992.

With the end of the fighting and a liberal visa policy for South Africans, many wave discoveries have since been made. Most have been in the southern half of the country by South African surfers driving north from the border on large winter groundswells moving up the coast and filling in the many right points between the border and Maputo, the capital.