Inside Mozambique's abandoned luxury hotel – BBC REEL

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Inside Mozambique's abandoned luxury hotel – BBC REEL


The Grand Hotel in Beira, Mozambique has had an extraordinary life: opened in 1954, it was a luxury destination with an Olympic-sized swimming pool and cinema. Closed in 1963 and taken over for political purposes during the country’s war of independence, it now houses a few thousand squatters – some of whom are the third generation living…

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  1. Sad for me to see this. I was born in Beira in 1968. I'm Portuguese, and so feel the heartache of my ancestors trespasses, as well as pride of being born in beautiful Mozambique, in the most amazing continent on Earth, Africa. We left in 1972 and never returned, but i hope to visit one day.

  2. If there are no tourists to Beira from the Old Rhodesia or now Zimbabwe, Beira cannot grow fully again. It is a bit far for South Africans to travel.

  3. this is wonderful. I am so happy that this building hasn't gone empty. I know that it is not what it could or should be, but people are living there when they would otherwise be homeless. Thank you for doing this. I wish the people in Turkey would follow in your footsteps with their cities that look like disney castles.

  4. The continent with the MOST natural resources, IN THE WORLD, has a hotel that looks like this and people living like this. Absolutely sickening. What will it take to wake this part of the world up? Disgustingly hard to digest this as reality, especially in 2022. WAKE UP AFRICANS!!!

  5. This is a true representation of what socialism and communism bring to societies. This is the best it can offer. It is designed to do precisely this, and this is exactly what it did in absolutely every single society it was exported to.