Mafu Haus A friends house

The morning arrived after a cold night. The sun insinuated itself between a dark gray mass that dissolved into light drops of rain. These were the last cold winds to carry a winter with long spasms of the summer that was already creeping in. We were on the second day at Mafu Haus, a hotel resort in Nhamua, Inhambane Bay, which looks more like a holiday home owned by a couple of friends.

As the previous meals had already been and the ones that would follow, the breakfast table set, always as a ritual to celebrate the day and life, they suggested more new experiences of this kind of signature cuisine, despite the multiple references. The table at which we sit overlooking the Bay, at low tide, reminiscent of a painting by a landscape painter, also leaves us close to the garden where sometimes yellow-rumped mashbirds land. The menu is vegetarian, but not imposed, suggested, a kind of induction to a new lifestyle that the body always asks for, but which we often don’t have the courage to take on.

And when the night with its cold winds and the stars show the night owls the way of the morning, the bonfire lit in a kind of hall opens the way for this Mozambican tradition of conversations around the bonfire.

▶ HOW TO GO

Fly with the LAM to Inhambane and then it takes about 40 minutes to reach Mafu Haus.

▶ WHERE TO EAT

The vegetarian menu is a kind of treatise on how many ways we can eat healthy food. It is essential to let yourself be surprised. But you can always ask to eat meat and fish dishes or visit the restaurants by the sea that are not far away.

▶ WHAT TO DO

Walk along the bay at low tide, walk along the beach, listen to the stories of the community around you that are always surprising or just stand there listening to the birds and the trees saying what we need to hear.

▶ BOOKING

+258 84 048 8311

Number of Nights Suggested: 3

Average rate per person: USD 180*

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