3 articles tagged with dhow sailing
I never thought I'd find myself haggling over dhow prices in a language cobbled together from my rudimentary Portuguese and wild hand gestures, but that's the magic of Vilanculos for you. This coastal Mozambican gem delivers the kind of authentic...
As I stepped off the small aircraft onto Lamu's airstrip, the absence of motor vehicles announced itself not through silence, but through different rhythms—wooden dhows cutting through turquoise waters, the gentle clip-clop of donkey hooves on ancient pathways, and the...
There's something profoundly humbling about arriving in Pemba. As my plane descended over the curved peninsula that cradles this Mozambican port city, the juxtaposition of turquoise waters against red earth immediately spoke to the landscape architect in me. The natural...