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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The DRC visa was one of the easiest to obtain to date. Issued by some of the most laid back consular officials around. At first they told us it would take 2-3 days to process, but asked if there was any way to expedite things, they told us to collect them in the afternoon. No [...]

By the time we approached the Namibian border, we had spent over a month in South Africa and covered around 5,500km. It’s a big country with some stunning scenery, a good mix of paved/dirt roads and friendly people - a motorcyclist’s dream. But it was time to get move on, Namibia awaited. The welcome wasn’t [...]