A year on the road!!

31. Namibia 9 Comments

We finally got our Angolan visas!!
It was just over 3 weeks ago that we first set foot in the Angolan consulate, yet the fate of our visas wasn’t decided until the very end. The mafia (staff) at the consulate are something else. Even the godfathers of Sicily would be proud. They used every delaying [...]

Base camp Oshakati

31. Namibia 5 Comments

Well… we’re still in Oshakati waiting for our visas to Angola. Will we get them? Who knows…
The consulate is just around the corner so we check everyday, but so far all we hear is “Check again tomorrow”. Argh!!! We’re being patient but everyone has their limits.
We’ve setup our ‘base camp’ at the back of a [...]

Himba-land

31. Namibia 9 Comments

We spent all of the previous week in Oshakati, visitng the Angolan consulate (almost daily) and arranging invitation/reference letters from our ‘friend’ in Angola. By Friday we were finally allowed to submit the application. We should have an answer after the upcoming Easter weekend.The Angolan consulate is a nightmare! One of the worst we’ve seen [...]