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Mozambique: A Real Travel Guide to the Best Places to Visit and how not loose your mind

Turner August 28, 2019 Africa, Blog, Destinations, Mozambique

So you want to visit Mozambique and see all the best pretty things do you? Good. That is good buddy. But will you survive? That would be good too. Your mom would appreciate that and therefore, would like me and my advice on how best to visit Mozambique. Carry on. Things to know about Mozambique The first thing you should …

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Instagram post 2191546725976885142_15999239 Not a bad day out in Indonesia. Canā€™t really go wrong no matter where you turn it seems. Surprised it took me so long to come here.
Instagram post 2191326059843467865_15999239 So many touristic spots in Bali...but for good reason. Even so, you can turn anywhere pretty much and snap some cool pics. Here is a waterfall sans the 20 other people.
Instagram post 2190052939388153632_15999239 To be honest I didnā€™t know much about Singapore, but going from India to here is like stepping into a time machine. Pristine malls, crazy lights, modernity ā€” itā€™s like stepping into the future.
Instagram post 2189052471887217487_15999239 The gardens by the bay in Singapore. What creativity. From India to Singapore is like teleporting into the future. Part Avatar, part futuristic garden. Great light show with opera music at night too.
Instagram post 2188014276839775433_15999239 Getting my Zen on at Bodhizendo. After exploring Tibetan Buddhism at Tushita in northern India near the Himalayas, this Zen center in South India is the perfect spot to explore Zen (Japanese) Buddhism. Typified by less guided meditation sessions and koans (wisdom through perplexing questions/riddles from masters) it is pretty different. The gardens are incredible but the monkeys up to thievery are the same. Cheeky buggers. The setting is perfect in the hill station near Kodaikanal, mist and greenery abound.
Instagram post 2187435856657488038_15999239 Cruising through the backwaters in South India (Kerela). You can rent huge houseboats and live on the river. Seems like a romantic idea but it is hardly as adventurous as it once was. Such is the way of tourism. But it is fun to tour around the backwaters. People actually live on them. You can see women doing laundry, family gatheringsā€”life. I got violently sick two days prior so I lounged like a lizard for three hours. Itā€™s incredible to see how large these house boats can get though.
Instagram post 2184795496554946149_15999239 Cracked open the doors of my first mediation retreat. 10 days of silence and Buddhist teaching overlooking the Himalayas šŸ’Æ. Before the retreat I got to hear the Dalai Kama speak. He speaks in Tibetan so there are translators. You need a radio to tune into your language. I havenā€™t used a radio in 20 years. Anyway, not sure how it happened, but I got pushed into the VIP section as the talk was ending and I got to shake the Dalai Lamas hand. Pretty amazing, although the Tawaianese, whose section I found myself in, did not appreciate it as much. Sorry. Regardless, inspiring to be around an exiled people making the most of a tough situation. Anyway, 10 days of Buddhist teaching in the cold Himalayas surrounded by cheeky monkeys and silence. Wonā€™t be my first or last. Giving yourself a life break that doesnā€™t involve drinking yourself into a coma on a beach is an amazing thing. Be good to yourself. Check out a silent retreat, you donā€™t need to trek to India or some distant land to find stillness. Itā€™s within you. You beautiful little sashimi.
Instagram post 2174561197108864926_15999239 Nothing better than exploring ancient civilizationsā€™ ruins. Itā€™s humbling and hot AF during the day usually. Dusk is where it is at. Hampi India, where I took this sweaty, daring photo of white guyness, was the NYTimes #2 ranked place to visit for 2019. It is kind of like a mix of Turkeyā€™s Capadoccia meets Cambodiaā€™s Angkor Wat. The place is massive, but you canā€™t take your own scooter bc the tuk tuk mafia lobbied the government against it. This I had a tuk tuk driver for the day. But to be honest, to do it again, I would have just gone slow and alone. First the morning and again at night. Beat the heat and get the actual feeling of stumbling upon an ancient society. You donā€™t get that feeling being chauffeured around. Take your time. Go slow.
Instagram post 2171765276478318172_15999239 I sat here in the country drinking chai tea with some locals. Country is where you meet people. The ones who want to meet you and know why you are there. In America it is easy for city folk to look at the country as a blip. A stop over. People without something to add to the convo. Maybe I am speaking to generally. ā€˜We all donā€™t do that!ā€™ Yeah, you do. Maybe. Anyway, back to India. People are curious. And in the country away from the touristvilles you drink chai tea and speak about cultural things: pre-arrangement marriages and fidelity and love were what I focused on. The words translate here but I am not sure we mean the same thing. Anyway, I ramble and am off point. But I like the real, weird points of discussion.
Instagram post 2166874337079230258_15999239 When you find that oasis but someone else got there first...and by someone I mean a billion people ā€”itā€™s India šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø.
Instagram post 2165504515737262794_15999239 #nofilter necessary for Goaā€™s incredible sunsets.
Instagram post 2164648856112226037_15999239 Goa isnā€™t bad. After a week of monsoons and being stuck inside, this was a welcome break. Moto for the day. Might be the most lush place I have motoā€™d next to Hawaii.
Instagram post 2162500891771753971_15999239 The calm before the storm. Idyllic beaches and palms can make one forget that Mother Nature calls the shots. A few hours of this. 6 days straight rain. Monsoon season is no joke.
Instagram post 2159603323299444528_15999239 First night in Goa. On the quiet southern part, and the sunset was like an oil painting. Pure magic šŸ˜šŸ’ÆšŸ‡®šŸ‡³
Instagram post 2150698287005762281_15999239 Sitting on the holy river the Ganges, you can feel that there is something special about it. Perfect place to reflect before setting off on my first ten day, silent mediation retreat. I have never done anything like it before ā€” so I am feeling a bit mixed emotions of excited and nervous. Here we go!
Instagram post 2149473037240769143_15999239 Trying to set up one of those ā€˜Instagramā€™ shots all the cool kids are talking abut these days but all these vastly more interesting than me people kept getting in the way. Maybe I should photoshop myself out? Regardless, India has some happening mosques, tombs and palaces. To say it is buzzing with life would be an understatement.
Instagram post 2147962623793046639_15999239 So many temples, tombs, and street eats not sure where to start and end in India. So far, must say, the tombs are the most decorative I think Iā€™ve ever seen.
Instagram post 2146581517684519429_15999239 Sunset from above the Ganges ā€” Indiaā€™s holiest river. People flock to ceremonies during sunset and bathe in the river to cleanse themselves and feel the spiritual vibes. Farther along the river in Varanasi, the cremated remains of loved ones are set off in the river. I hesitated to swim in this, but Rishikesh is the top part and cleaner šŸ˜. But to swim in Varanasi šŸ¤”ā˜ ļø
Instagram post 2144881150383014259_15999239 ā€˜Soul not for Saleā€™. Seems fitting, paradoxical, amusing and heaps of other emotions - in India. Sometimes you have to lose yourself to find yourself - but you canā€™t do either, if youā€™ve already sold yourself. Hit the return counter. Find quiet. Or complete chaos. Maybe finding your soul in stillness is perfect in a place that is 100% in your face chaos. That road leads to India.
Instagram post 2143696560888862645_15999239 I donā€™t always spend my days working on tea plantations, but when I do...I eat weird red goo and spit it like a local. Sri Lanka is famous for tea. They transformed their entire coffee industry to tea when a fungi outbreak happened and now they are one of the worldā€™s biggest tea producers. The tea pickers sometimes pick up to 22 kilos (45 pounds a day) of tea leaves. They make $4-7 a day and work their asses off. It is beautiful office no doubt, but the work is repetitive as hell and grueling. However, the ladies picking are some of the nicest people. They kept feeding me rice and tea as I worked. Glorious. If you find yourself in Sri Lanka, and want to see where Sir Lipton started it all, check out tea plantations around Ella.
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