First one is a video I took from the plane as we were flying from Maputo to Nampula. I honestly have no idea where we are, but I think the Mountains hint that it's probably over Zambezia or Nampula Province.
This is a video of the approach into Nampula providing a view of the city of Nampula as well as the Mountains in the background.
This is a video I took during the chapa ride on the day we were dropped off at site. Here we're driving through some village on the way up north.
Here's a video from Montepuez. It's a bunch of kids playing with a monkey in a tree. Cute shit.
Another video from Montepuez. This is my friend Manuel and he is in the process of building his own house. He bought some land last year and finally saved up enough money to buy the supplies he needed to start building. First comes the skeleton made from skinny tree trunks forming the structural columns inside the walls of the house. Then, you secure horizontal slates of bamboo to the posts using thin rubber string made from old tires. Next he'll build the scaffolding of a roof using more bamboo, then cake the walls in mud to make an inside and an outside. Finally, he'll throw bundles of "capin," or tall grass on top of large sheets of plastic to form the protective portion of the roof and keep the inside dry. The whole process is actually fairly simple and really doesn't take that long to do depending on how much effort you put into it. He's only in the initial stages right now, but he's moving fast! This is his progress after two weeks of working all by himself.
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