Mozambican Adventures of the Beilfuss family (Madison chapter)
16 April 2008
Trip to the Murombodzi Waterfall
We spent a great day hiking to the Murombodzi waterfall on Mount Gorongosa. We drove to Nhancuco (about 2 hours from Chitengo) and hiked for about an hour along a path through fields of corn and bananas with the capable guiding of our friends Tonga, Tongai, and Silvestre.
It was Theo's first waterfall experience, and we're happy to report that he loved it!
Our family has moved back to Madison (we returned mid-August 2008) for a variety of reasons. While we are very sad to have left the Chitengo family we had come to love -- and the extraordinary natural resource, Gorongosa National Park -- we are very excited to be back in our old Jean Street neighborhood in Madison, and to be able to see and communicate with our friends and family more readily.
"A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambque" by William Finnegan.
"Drawn from the Plains: Life in the Wilds of Southern Africa", by Lynne Tinley, wife of the ecologist who documented the plants and animals at Gorongosa before the wars. Out of print but available through www.abebooks.com
"The Safari Companion: A Guide to Watching African Mammals" by Richard D. Estes