Mozambique: Pemba: Ibo Island Lodge

Have you ever seen those photo’s of pure blue oceans, white sand and clear sea?   Well they are certainly to be found here in the northern part of Mozambique? I recently traveled to Pemba for a site inspection at Ibo Island Lodge, accessible by plane from the town of Pemba on the mainland of northern Mozambique (not to be confused with the island of Pemba off the Zanzibar coast a little higher up). There are a couple of options to get to Pemba, there are direct flights, a couple of days a week only, from OR Tambo in Johannesburg, or you can fly from Johannesburg with Air Mozambique via Maputo with a stop over of around 45 minutes to clear customs, where they make you go and sit in the newly built air conditioned in transit section of the airport, and then you jump back onto the same plane with the same boarding pass (so you need to hold onto the boarding pass otherwise you cant get on the flight again. Actually, Maputo Airport was quite a nice surprise as I was expecting an old building with no air conditioning,  the new airport had it all and there were a couple of coffee shops as well as some duty free shops to look at to kill the time. There are also flights from Dar e...