Mozambique stretches all the way up the Indian Ocean coast from South Africa to Tanzania. It’s a huge, often overlooked, and once Portugal’s most important African colony.

A holiday in Mozambique is an excellent place to experience the faded glamour of the colonial era, with many Portuguese buildings crumbling in the tropical heat. Maputo is a fascinating city with some of Africa’ finest seafood, the ports of Beira and Ilha de Mozambique are rich with colonial architecture, but most visitors travel to Mozambique for a beach holiday in the small Indian Ocean hideaways found on two offshore archipelagos, Quirimbas and Bazaruto.