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Nampula

Nampula is the capital of Nampula Province in Northern Mozambique, surrounded by plains and rocky outcrops. The city is connected by plane (LAM) to Maputo; it hosts the regional market and is well supplied with shops, banks, hotels and restaurants.

Travel to Nampula & Visa Requirements

Tours & Getting around Nampula

By car

Nampula attractions and sightseeing

  • Cathedral. Large and domed. edit
  • Museu Nacional de Etnologia. Tu-Sa 2PM-4:30PM, Su 10AM-4:30PM. Nice collection of artefacts including masks and musical instruments. At the back of the museum is a Makonde cooperative workshop where you can see Makonde wood carvers.  edit

Nampula city tours

Nampula souvenirs & shopping

  • Banco Austral.  edit
  • BCI-Fomento.  edit
  • Millennium,.  edit
  • Standard Bank.  edit

Nampula Restaurants: cheap, moderate and expensive

The Copacabana in front of the Tropical Hotel is recommended. Good seafood. Cold beer and wines. Picturesque settings. You'll find your NGO guy/lady from all over the world there!

The Restaurant of Tropical Hotel is also good, but less choices than the Copacabana.

Avoid the Girassol hotel restaurant at all cost! Food is warmed up and its a festival of soggy fries in glassy sauces.

The Sporting is a good place to eat, if its not raining: nice tables set outside and separated by neat little hedges. Great place to watch sport events on a telly.

Nampula nightlife, bars, clubs & pubs

Nampula cheap and luxurious hotels, youth hostels & lodging

  • Milenio, Av 25 September, ☎ +258 26 218877. The Milenio is the latest addition to Nampula. A very modern stylish building. edit
  • Girassol, Commercial Center, Av Eduardo. Mondlane, ☎ +258 26 216000, [1]. This is a relatively new hotel on the fourth floor of a commercial center. Comfortable rooms with A/C. Free internet access. Excellent breakfast included. In the same building you can find café Atlantico for good coffee and snacks edit
  • Tropical, Rua Macombra opposite Restaurant Copacabana, ☎ +258 26 212232(. Getting a bit run down edit
  • Lurio, Av. Independència, ☎ +258 26 212898. Dirty and overpriced with a lingering smell of urine in the hallways. edit
  • Residencial Karuthakka, Rue 3 Fevereiro. A new hostel, budget, good value for money. edit
  • Residencia Monte Carlo, Rua cidade de Mocambique. One of the cheapest places in Nampula, but don't expect anything else but the basic necessities. edit
  • Pensao Parque, Ave Paulo Samuel Kankhombe (close to the Residencia Monte Carlo), similar rooms.

Get out

Nampula is the staging post for journeys further north (towards the Tanzania border) or west (towards Malawi). The only passenger railway service in the Country connects the town with Cuamba near the Malawi border.

This page was last edited at 12:31, on 22 September 2008 by Anonymous user(s) of Wikitravel. Based on work by David, lic. iur. HBR Lenel, Edo Lin, Evan Prodromou, Willy Volk and Jani Patokallio, Wikitravel user(s) Morph, Jake73 and Cacahuate and Anonymous user(s) of Wikitravel.

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