I offer the following tanslation into English of ...
I offer the following tanslation into English of the report done by Nic and January, regarding their visit to Matemo Island, Mozambique;
As one travels from Johannesburg over (Maputo and) Pemba, arriving at Matemo one arrives at paradise. Matemo Island is a small island approx. 6 km before the coast of Mozambique in the north of this varied country. On the island are beside two small villages of indigenous people, besides the Resort with 24 Chalets, a restaurant, bar, a pool and enormous amounts beach. As tip: everything can be paid by credit card, but it does not harm to take a few American dollar along for tips.
We were in a very calm week. For 3 days we even had the Resort completely to ourselves. The most important for us was the diving!
Matemo had been opened 3 months before. Everything was quite new. The scuba equipment was perfect.
Many of the diving places lie almost unaffected in the Indian ocean. Only few divers had dived in northern Mozambiques; so we did some exclusive diving. The travel with the speedboat from Matemo to the diving places lasted between 20 and 45 minutes. We dived always with Diveguide and buoy and after emerging - 50bar with one the diver ? we were collected by the native Skipper. The crew was always very attentive and the boats had oxygen, first aid equipment and naturally soft drinks - mystery drink OF the day.
We saw literally everything that one finds in the books concerning the Indian ocean or however Guides over the fish at the east coast of Africa. Sharks, whale sharks and Mantas were not unfortunately under it, but the number and variety of the other fish made up for that a little again. We are twice in enormous schools of Barracuda (yellowtale and grey), bluespotted stingrays, beautiful turtles, parrot fish in all sizes and variations, Remoras, enormous Napoleons, Doktora horn fish, red fire fish, wonderful colourful snails. One diving course, between Matemo and Ibo, had quite a rapid flow. The under water landscape is shaped by corrals, which formatted themselves usually more to gardens than to reefs. Everything works unaffected and impressively.
If you consider booking through a South African operator, we can advise you against DiveWild (our contact was Robbie Ahston). The destination was wonderful, but the completion of the journey and the information flow were unfortunately very poor.
Should have you questions about Matemo questions, simply email us to Nicole @ Bulang. de or jhusak @ cisco.com.
Nic and January
As one travels from Johannesburg over (Maputo and) Pemba, arriving at Matemo one arrives at paradise. Matemo Island is a small island approx. 6 km before the coast of Mozambique in the north of this varied country. On the island are beside two small villages of indigenous people, besides the Resort with 24 Chalets, a restaurant, bar, a pool and enormous amounts beach. As tip: everything can be paid by credit card, but it does not harm to take a few American dollar along for tips.
We were in a very calm week. For 3 days we even had the Resort completely to ourselves. The most important for us was the diving!
Matemo had been opened 3 months before. Everything was quite new. The scuba equipment was perfect.
Many of the diving places lie almost unaffected in the Indian ocean. Only few divers had dived in northern Mozambiques; so we did some exclusive diving. The travel with the speedboat from Matemo to the diving places lasted between 20 and 45 minutes. We dived always with Diveguide and buoy and after emerging - 50bar with one the diver ? we were collected by the native Skipper. The crew was always very attentive and the boats had oxygen, first aid equipment and naturally soft drinks - mystery drink OF the day.
We saw literally everything that one finds in the books concerning the Indian ocean or however Guides over the fish at the east coast of Africa. Sharks, whale sharks and Mantas were not unfortunately under it, but the number and variety of the other fish made up for that a little again. We are twice in enormous schools of Barracuda (yellowtale and grey), bluespotted stingrays, beautiful turtles, parrot fish in all sizes and variations, Remoras, enormous Napoleons, Doktora horn fish, red fire fish, wonderful colourful snails. One diving course, between Matemo and Ibo, had quite a rapid flow. The under water landscape is shaped by corrals, which formatted themselves usually more to gardens than to reefs. Everything works unaffected and impressively.
If you consider booking through a South African operator, we can advise you against DiveWild (our contact was Robbie Ahston). The destination was wonderful, but the completion of the journey and the information flow were unfortunately very poor.
Should have you questions about Matemo questions, simply email us to Nicole @ Bulang. de or jhusak @ cisco.com.
Nic and January