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LAND OF THE GOOD PEOPLE

DURBAN → MOZAMBIQUE

If any journey has changed over the years it’s the run from Durban to the point breaks that lie between Maputo and Beira. But as the journey has become easier, so has the realisation that the perfect waves that beckon are in fact some of the most elusive on the planet. And the myth of it being empty is just no longer applicable. Swell is not guaranteed, winds are tricky, tides play a huge role and sand comes and goes.

For those who went in the mid and late 1990’s, after the end

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