I went to Tofinho yesterday. It is near Tofo, the beach I posted about when I first got here. It is really beautiful. As we walked we didn't see many people either. This was very different from my Korean beach experiences. The purpose of the visit was to go to the Heroes' memorial. In the picture below you can see it in the distance.
It is the small pyramid structure at the top of the hill. I am trying to figure out if it is a memorial for heroes of the war for Independence or what, but in any case it is a remembrance for those who died for the freedom of Mozambique. The memorial itself is shaped like a pyramid or sorts with a fist breaking through chains at the top of it.
When I think of a memorial I think of the smooth, clean, pure white ones of Washington, D.C. I might be totally off, but there seems to be more soul in a memorial that is rough and exhibits the real touch of a human being. There is something cold and disconnected about the memorials in D.C. I don't know.... 
Near the memorial is the "Buraco dos assassinatos" or the hole where the people who were "asassinated" or killed by the Portuguese colonists met their fates.
I would assume that these people were traitors or murderers or something, but they were pushed down the hole as their final sentence.
If the rocks from the drop didn't kill them, they were stuck there until the tide came in and filled up the space and they drowned. It was quite a small and dark hole.
It was eerie being near it. Supposedly a while back, people found actual bones in the dark, dank hole. It was quite small. I would imagine it would be hard to get an unwilling person in it unless he/she were bound up. What a terrible way to go.
For all the photos go here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/akishaintheworld/sets/72157604770303402/
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