Maputo - Post Report Question and Answers
Is this a "shopping post"? Are there interesting handicrafts, artwork, antiques, or other items that people typically buy there?
There are lots of handicrafts locally available. However, you will see that many of the products you can find here are not natively produced. The common term for this is "Africrap." Buy your fill of it, but realize it is likely not indigenous to Mozambique. - Feb 2020
Beaded animal sculptures, wood carvings, Capalana fabrics, baskets here, baskets there, candles, and glass in swazi. - Feb 2019
Lots of options for artwork, handicrafts, etc. - Feb 2017
Normal African artwork is available. - Jan 2017
Mozambican capulanas - a beautiful fabric that is also used to make cool, unique crafts like rugs, clothing, jewelry, etc. - Jul 2014
Peri-peri chicken (forget Nando's, it is just fake Mozambican chicken)! Seafood here is out of this world! Guard your money carefully; Mozambicans have no qualms about asking you for large quantities of money with absolutely no intention of giving it back. - Apr 2014
Some furniture, few local clothing items. - Oct 2012
Statues, small craft. - May 2010
Cashews locally grown, wooden trinkets and masks. - Dec 2008
