Dunes (4x4 only!) | Wild Camping
Mozambique
Details
- Verified:
- about 2 months ago
- GPS:
- -22.59478, 35.49813
- Altitude:
- 46.0 masl
- Website:
- None
- Contributor:
-
tongsetbottesenvadrouille.com
Amenities
- Electricity:
- No
- Wifi:
- No
- Kitchen:
- No
- Restaurant:
- No
- Showers:
- No
- Water:
- No
- Toilets:
- No
- Big Rig Friendly:
- Yes
- Tent Friendly:
- Yes
- Pet Friendly:
- Yes
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Description
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Close to the perfect beach, big red dune to the north, beautiful lagoon to the south. Nice dunes, amazing sunrise and starry sky. Camping right on the beach. At high tide waves could provide some nice surf.
Few fishermen around, all friendly, they sell fish if you ask but only speak a bit Portuguese. Small village 750 m to the south.
If it wasn't for the washed up rubbish on the dunes but beach and water were mostly clean and a small cleanup does the trick. No glass splinters or fresh trash though.
To get there:
From the tar road (Mavanza) to the beach it takes 55 km and around 1,5 to 2,0 hour Off-road driving (direct road from Cheline flooded and abandoned as of 05/2024). Track is mostly wide enough for a truck with only few low hanging branches and before the sandy parts it's a nice gravel track with small friendly villages.
Some deeper sections require sand driving experience if you drive alone. Closest phone signal 25 km from the beach, little to no traffic the closer you get to the beach so don't expect any help if you get stuck.
To get to a shady place under some trees (-22.593678,35.501353) in the dune turn right on the hard sand at the beach. Beware of soft sand, adjust tire pressure to around 1 bar to not get stuck. Please do NOT drive on the dune from the north.
Absolutely no phone signal!
Path to climb the dunes:
Go to the beginning of the red dune. After a small palm tree at -22,5919047, 35,5011657 climb up through some bushes for 100 meter until it opens up and you reach a crest. Go down steep into a impressing dune funnel. Proceed northwestwards and climb the dune -22.589715,35.498174 (see map). Impressive sunsets.
Please respect the dunes as they are fragile. Do NOT try to climb the very steep parts of the dune, drive on the dunes or harm the vegetation.
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Stayed 4 nights at this gorgeous remote beach. Took us 1.5 hours to get there but well worth it. Some deep sand sections with newer detours but already suffering from deep gullies, 4x4 and high clearance definitively necessary. We only adjusted the tire pressure at the beach but could be useful already after Belane due to soft sand and bumps.
Locals said the road from Cheline was flooded, seemed to be abandoned. We left the tarred road at Mavanza, turned left/north at a T junction in Belane heading to the original road. Then turned left for the beach road close to Afo, then 12 km to the beach.
Very calm and peaceful beach. Beautiful vistas. As with many wild beaches lots of trash. Collecting the washed up garbage from the ocean became our morning routine... We cleaned the beach and dunes 25 meters around the camp (see pics), wonder if the effect lasts until the cyclone season...
Added dune climb and photos. No signal at all (Vodacom).
Highly recommended!
Very beautiful beach, we were alone!
But to reach there you have to drive a 30kms sandy track, sometimes really deep so you need 4x4. (track is large enough for a truck without low branches and before the sand it's a nice gravel track with small friendly villages).
The track goes direct to the beach but there is a big hill so we stayed at the top of the hill (because with the truck we were not sure to be able to climb the sandy hill). I think with a light vehicle and 4x4 you can try!
Beach is only 10min walking from this point.
No phone signal!