Travel through/between the central african countries of Angola, DRC, Congo and Gabon is renown for being difficult and at times , due to the lack of good roads (especially during the wet season) almost impossible. The exception in most of these countries is the road linking the capital to the president’s home town. In [...]

Not content with surviving the 200+ km of mud on the road from Angola, we decided to detour off the black stuff again for another 100km, to visit the waterfalls of Zongo. There we met Dimitri and Marina who offered us a place to stay in Kinshasa. Lucky, as the cost of living in Kinshasa [...]

Crossing the border at Oshikango we left behind a stable, well developed Namibia and entered Angola - a country only now finding its feet having been devastated by a 40 year civil war. Signs of the recent conflict can be seen everywhere. Russian tanks lay abandoned by the roadside, bullet holes are sprayed across buildings [...]