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Martin writes... Arriving at the border after a comfortable 30km drive, we realized we were the only folk wishing to exit Malawi.  Timidly approaching the two newspaper-reading officers, we asked if the border was open.  Huge grins appeared on their friendly faces and a loud exclamation that this border was always open. Within seconds of handing over our passports and Carnet, all items were returned and stamped...

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Our first Zambezi ferry crossing...

Less than 100m up the road was the Mozambique office.  We walked in expecting that this entry process would be far longer than our exit from Malawi ... but to our surprise, our passports (with our visas) were stamped and the carnet was completed in another record time. Exiting Malawi and entering Mozambique could not have taken more than 10min.  Truly our style of border crossing :-)

 


Big Skies of Mozambique
 


Good dirt roads... even in wet weather
 

The road from the Milange border immediately became a dirt road, with very little corrugations to irritate us.  Majority of today's drive was on single lane gravel roads winding through the Mozambique bush.  Fantastic driving, making a huge difference from the long tar roads of East Africa.


One of the many reminders of the civil war
 



 

Waiting for the ferry to arrive so that we can cross the Zambezi...


Ferry across the Zambezi
 


Ship ahoy!
 

 

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