Capital: Quelimane
Zambézia
Green, watered and little-visited: coconut plantations, the Zalala coast and the forests of Gilé.
Zambézia is Mozambique's greenest province, a landscape of rivers, tea estates around Gurué, coconut plantations and forested inselbergs. Quelimane, the capital, is a low tropical city on the Bons Sinais river with a cathedral and a slow, humid rhythm. Zalala beach lies a short drive away. Inland, the Gilé National Reserve protects miombo woodland that is slowly returning to health, and Mount Namuli draws hikers looking for something genuinely off the map.