Travel Guide Vilankulo

Vilankulos is a real African village (with a population of 40,000), with its reed huts ready to blow away at the first sign of a cyclone, its small subsistence crops of cassava and sweet potatoes growing in the shade of banana and baobab trees, and its children rolling tin cans around in their cars. Its municipal market features a central hall selling dried fish, and along its rectangular central streets, small stalls display market garden produce, capulanas, basketry, canissa (woven reeds sold by the metre to build houses), Indian T-shirts or Chinese manufactured goods... A lively local bazaar.The town stretches along the ocean and the hotels are all concentrated on the seafront. At the end of the main road, which ends facing the ocean, you have two options: right or left. A jumble of signs compete for space. All the hotels are listed, along with a few restaurants. The distances are quite long, if you consider Baobab Beach to Villas do Indico from one end to the other, for example, in the north it's 7 km. In the middle, the small port at the Dona Ana Hotel is the oldest in the small resort. The south tends to be more budget accommodation, while the north is more affluent. As the village becomes a town, more and more hoteliers are moving in, with a few new and old villas and a few colonial buildings occupying the space.But Vilankulos is above all a bay. Coconut palms, filaos, a never-ending beach, fine sand and the movement of the tides change the landscape every half-hour, with boats leaning over the sandbanks at low tide, and the water of the lagoon tinting the horizon with a thousand shades of turquoise at high tide. Offshore, the Bazaruto archipelago.