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 [...]