Pemba - Northern Mozambique

Working weekend

As I had to go to one of our recently opened offices in Pemba, which is about 2500km North of Maputo, I decided to take my wife with me and stay for the weekend.

Pemba is the capital city of the Cabo Delgado Province, lying in a peninsula of the Pemba bay. It was elevated to a city status since 1904 then called Porto Amelia, after the queen of Portugal.

It is also the headquarters of most multinationals that are investing in the offshore gas initiative.

Anyway my work finished on Friday late afternoon and went straight to our hotel which is literally on top of the beach and had a swim at about 18h00 already dark. The wife was a bit scared, but then enjoyed our night swim. 

As always the water was warm, but I could see that we were going to have a cloudy weekend which could ruin our swim weekend.

The next morning we woke up with overcast sky so decided to take our 4x4 and just drive around to get to know the surroundings of Pemba.

All photos made with FUJI X-T1 and FUJI X70

Cloudy skies

We had cloudy skies but Pemba is still beautiful. Now imagine with sunny days. It will be paradise.

Faces

I always take my FUJI INSTAX share-SP1 with me. It just makes my day to print and offer to the local people, specially young people. Their faces when they see themselves is priceless.

Diamonds Mequfi Beach Resort

 This is the most recent 5* beach resort in Pemba situated at Mequfi beach which is run by the Planhotel hospitality group.

This is quite something out of the ordinary. It cannot be described, that is how beautiful and looked after it is. Full of different activities, it is just