Preto no branco, a aventura de Sábado aos olhos de um amigo que também lá esteve.
This weekend I went to Bilene with a group of friends. We crossed the lagoon by boat to a beach close to an old lodge (it was not Girassol) and a beautiful cliff.
After an hour there, four local guys came with a gun and we were robbed.
One of the girls from our group was pointed a gun, threatened to death and the robber even shot close to her ear twice as she opposed to give him her backpack. We afterwards tried to contact the local police station to search for the robbers. A policeman came with some of the members of our group in a car of another friend of ours and they searched for them. Thankfully no one was harmed. They found one person which we later came to know they freed that very same night. After a certain point, the police did no effort to search for our belongings although the house of the robbers was known. This seemed a bit strange to us and made us think of the possibility of a connection between the police and the robbers. We were told to get back there on Monday (today) to fill in the register. That night we remained in Bilene until 12 in the evening. A close friend of mine, a professional mechanic, had to come from Maputo to unlock the driving wheels of our two cars and to make a direct ignition. We arrived in Maputo at 3:30 am after an unfortunate flat tire in one of our cars.
As I also lost my cell phone, I will not be answering any cell phone calls until I get a new chip, which should be only next week. I will still be reachable through my email.
Please be careful if you are thinking of going to that area . Try to take as less valuable items as possible like money, documents, cell phones, fancy items, car keys, etc. And be sure to have a B plan for any of those items, etc should something like this happen to you.