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Cyclone Dineo: Message from Lalaland in Tofo, Inhambane

Cyclone Dineo: Message from Lalaland in Tofo, Inhambane

Some of you may know that southern Mozambique just sustained a direct hit from Severe Tropical Cyclone Dineo. The majority of the southern coastline has sustained unbelievable damage and entire communities have been physically erased. Many in these communities have lost literally everything they owned: homes, crops, and livestock, and livelihood. Everything.
There will be no Big Government swooping in to save them. No international movie stars will rally to their cause or help them feed their families and rebuild their homes. No catchy Top 40 song about it will grace your radio waves. To the outside world, African tragedy is just not news.


Literally all they have left is their sense of community, which is absolutely unbreakable. Its the kind of community that most better-off people with lots of material wealth will simply never know. It’s also the exact reason that for almost 10 years, Corinna Heidi and myself have been very proud to call Mozambique home. It is a beautiful, friendly place full of beautiful, friendly, hard working people and they need your help.


Please consider doing just that. It’s impossible to describe how far the smallest contribution can go in this part of the world. Thanks.

Chad Leavitt and Corinna Heidi

Contact Chad and Heidi through http://lalalandafrica.com or buzz me on umzimkulu@gmail.com if you would like to assist in ANY way.

 

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Most fun accommodation in Tofo

The most fun accommodation in Tofo

Most fun accommodation in Tofo

Most fun accommodation in Tofo award goes to Lalaland, right on the beach, just up the beach, from Praia do Tofo. The beach.

It’s fun for many reasons, but it has to be the quaint, elegantically rustic designed spaces all over Lalaland, where the feeling finds tenure. As you drive in, you can see how Lalaland came to be – yes, that’s the land rover Chad and Heidi arrived in. Parked right in the boma! The boma leads to the beach on one side, and the main building and kitchen on the other. It’s a great place – the many years of toil have paid off  – with absolute attention to detail and a good dose of pure style woven together. Other ingredients include friendly and helpful staffers, coconuts and things growing everywhere, hammocks and conversation areas, cool doggies (security)…

The gardens are filled with features and right in the middle, is the fire pit and boma. Where you can lose yourself completely on a starry night. The accommodations are a cool blend of bricks and mortar, and local materials, like reeds and chappas (corrugated roof sheets). The en suite bathrooms are roofed only by the stars and palm trees.

The beach out front goes for miles each way. A quick walk south puts you right in the mix – the Tofo Mercado. Colourful and vibrant, the beat carries through to midnight and beyond on most nights. There are many places to go, and many things to do, in Tofo town.

And during the day, putting to sea on one of many craft available puts you in the running for swim with a whale shark, or a dolphin, manta ray…or a cruise to the islands and back, under sail on a trendy and photogenic dhow.

Lalaland have a few of their own watercraft – great for catching the waves out front – Praia do Tofo has become a highly acclaimed beginner’s surfers beach. And another headland south is Tofinho (baby Tofo?!), which produces some class waves when it feels like it. A huge plastic paddle ski that can carry one to three people is also available, and can be launched and retrieved just in front of the lodge’s beach gate.

Leave only your footprints (c) LalalandNight time is the right time. The sun sets over Lalaland in Tofo, and the Natal Stumpnose come in close to hunt.The most fun accommodation in Tofo

For more information and to see more of why we call it the most fun accommodation in Tofo, click on over to lalalandafrica.com and look around!

The Sardine team can assist you with your dream holiday to Tofo. Drop us a line on umzimkulu@gmail.com and let us know your plan.

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Kayaking Barra with Lalaland

Kayaking Barra with Lalaland

Staying at Lalaland kind of gives you everything. Peace and quiet. Beach and sun. And yet you are so close to all the offerings Inhambane has to offer…
Lalaland hosts Chad and Heidi make a point of facilitating anything you need around the Tofo area. Horseriding. Inhambane town tours. Ocean Safaris. Scuba diving. Fishing. Surfing. Kayaking…

Barra is just over the peninsula from Lalaland – and is home to acres upon acres of mangrove forests. They grow happily in the saltwater – at high tide some are completely submerged! They grow randomly, but create intriguing channels through the wetlands. And it’s these channels that you can negotiate on kayaks – putting you face to face with the bird and marine life so prolific in the huge Inhambane estuary.

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Laland is set in PARADISE! You can kayak the Inhambane estuary, surf the Tofinho point, dive Giants and spend time touring Inhambane town. Contact afontelda@gmail.com

The estuary is 40 times bigger than the Knysna lagoon – and is much more populated. Mangrove and blue crabs, flamingos, squid and fishies are among the main attractions – but just paddling about in clear warm water is enough to make you stoked!

Lalaland still has a few rooms open for December 2014. For more info please mail afontelda@gmail.com

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