Country Info
- Kinshasa
- Capital
- Franc Congolais (CDF)
- Currency
- 53,624,718
- Population
- CD
- Country Code
Democratic Republic of the Congo Slideshow
Top Hotels in Congo - The Dem. Repub.
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Hotel Memling Kinshasa
56 reviews -
Grand Hotel Kinshasa
62 reviews
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Hotel Belle Vie Kinshasa
6 reviews
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Hotel Venus Kinshasa
14 reviews
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Residence Le Consul Kinshasa
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Flats Hotel Luntu Kinshasa
3 reviews
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Hotel Ixoras Kinshasa
2 reviews -
Hotel Sultani Kinshasa
16 reviews -
Hotel Ihusi Goma
21 reviews
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Hotel la Versaille Goma
1 review
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VIP Palace Goma
5 reviews
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Stella Matutina Goma
5 reviews
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Hotel Cana Kinshasa
1 review
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Orchids Safari Club Bukavu
8 reviews
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Hotel Cosmopolite Lubumbashi
4 reviews
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Hotel Ave Maria Kinshasa
13 reviews
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Hotel Lubumbashi
6 reviews
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Hotel Butembo
1 review
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Faden House Kinshasa
5 reviews
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Alpajob Guest House Butembo
2 reviews
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Hotel Invest Kinshasa
7 reviews
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Hotel Bunia
1 review
Congo - The Dem. Repub.
Travel Blogs from Congo - The Dem. Repub., Congo - The Dem. Repub.
Mzungu in the Mist
This is a top pick! ... land to what the sign had told us was Zaire. But this is no longer the case, we were now entering the Democratic Republic of Congo. After our passports were stamped, we left the crumbly customs office with gunshot wounds and headed for the park permit ...
Northern Road Trip 3
This is a top pick! ... but not-unlikely incident in a country where life, even young life, is cheap. Zambia's president, Levy Mwanawas, didn't even attend the mass funeral that followed, sending his wife and the vice-president, who in a speech to the mourners said, "What you ...
Gorilla Trekking!!
This is a top pick! ... ) border, we passed through immigration with no problems whatsoever! It was actually quite scary being in a war torn country like Congo, the poverty there was like nothing we have ever seen before, kids were running up behind our 4x4 asking for pens, ...
DJ vs the Volcano - Round Two
This is a top pick! ... is obtained, you need to arrange transport. It's a long way out and back. The other issue is security. This is the Congo. This country has been wracked by international and civil conflict for years. It is estimated that over 4,000,000 people have ...
Northern Road Trip 4
This is a top pick! ... DJ a siren can heighten the emotional effect of the music. Mushima's jockey is not so capable. Bwalya's uncle, Alex, accompanies me to the bathroom, pointing out a squat building at the back of the club. "That's where the girls stay," he says, and I get ...
Into the fire and ash
... for some time, ever since I started thinking about tracking mountain gorillas, of visiting the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This region of East Africa is both historically, and presently, tormented by rebel forces committing all sorts of atrocities. ...
"Adventures With Jennifer"
... again here in Kinshasa. Things are heating up with the elections drawing near. I am thankful that we will be leaving Congo before the elections take place. We will try to go downtown tomorrow to a few stores and to a market there, but it ...
Orphanage
... in helping purchase needed items for the kids, just let me know. The need is overwhelming. THIS is why we came to the Congo. I pray that we can make a small difference. Again, I am sorry we ran out of camera early in the ...
Congo Graduation Day
... PLNC for short. It is an effort by Didi and Musee to curb the overwhelming corruption among government leaders in Congo. The have had some measured success so far and their efforts have already yielded about $7,000 dollars being turned back to ...
Movin' On Up!
... transportation situation improves, I will not be able to get out to an orphanage for awhile. That means my main work here in the Congo can be to help my workers in every way I can and hopefully touch their lives for the better. That may very ...
The walls are too tall
... left in their respective boxes, compartmentalized and labeled with barcodes made of digits; figures like GDP, import/export tariffs, the foreign investment attractiveness index, and homicide, infant mortality and HIV rates. Imagine a world in which we had ...
time, hair and TV
... and now I find that for the last week I have been a day ahead!? What the hell. The trouble is, I keep mucking about with the clock on my computer. I should just leave it. I messed around with my google calendar and now it fucked. :( Em going to change it ...
New Years
... know how you guys do it. After the make-up was removed I had to put on the mascara myself... I swear, I am a complete moron... I applied the white stuff on OK, then when I was putting the black stuff into my eye, I put the stick right inside my eyes. ...
I give up
... underdeveloped. In front of me stands an overwhelming obstacle that I previously underestimated. My thumbnail calculations suggest that the over-under of effectively overcoming this hurdle by crawling under or jumping over is extremely underwhelming. So, ...
Goma -- Day 3
... packages, resource for church planters, a radio station and many other exciting opportunities to transform Goma. It was an exciting, but exhausting meeting. It has been a great day and I can report great things are happening in ...
Bukavu Training Center
... need to pay another $30. Now I fully understood why Didi had wanted to have a ministry that would deal with the corruption in Congo. The claims of the officers were not valid, but they were the ones calling the shots, sooo... I paid the $30 ...
Lusaka - Kawambawa
... Zambia and more than 1 million of the live in the capital. We made good time, reaching Kawambwa at around 1530hrs. Our accommodation for the next two nights was at St. Mary's Development. Our room was basic but it had an ensuite. Apparently, there are a ...
The "Village People"
... They were cooking outside and doing their laundry. The families provide food for their loved one in the hospital. Here in the Congo, if you are in the hospital or in jail, your family or friends must bring you all of your meals ...
Panashe and Dawn Arrived
So Panashe and Dawn arrived yesterday afternoon. I had spent the last 2 days wishing they would arrive sooner, then when the two little bastards arrived, the first thing they said was "Denise, what happened? You are fat!!!". Bloody idiots. No, hey Denise, ...
Ahhh, Goma, Congo - A Place to write home about!
Hello from Congo, Got here around 4:00pm after a 4 hour van trip from Kigali to Gisenyi, Rwanda and then across the border to Goma. The van trip is always an experience even for the well seasoned traveler. Instead of renting a car for ...
The waiting finally paid off...
... I had to have a few drinks with the host's brother Baracka or else it would have been rude. He told me how the fighting in Congo with Rwanda and Uganda had started in Bunagana. He said when he was younger it had been night and they heard a bunch of ...
crazy loaded
... at times it can be a volatile area. However, it has all been pretty stable since 2009. Eric and I went into Congo for the afternoon. A volcano just outside of Goma, the town we went to, erupted in 2004 and there is still a lot of destruction ...
"Power to the People!"
... be "power sharing" and have electricity for 4 to 6 hours a day, but that hasn't been happening. Pretty much everything here in the Congo is corrupt and you have to "bribe" or "reward" monetarily to get anything done. Well, the women of this ...
Settling In and photos
... behind the house of a missionary family. The Grings are Baptist Missionaries here. Dan Grings is a 3rd generation missionary to the Congo. They are allowing us to stay in the apartment out back until they leave on Monday to go back to ...
Kasai
Le kasai est un affluent du Congo. J'ai choisi de faire uniquement une petite portion pour ne pas être trop longtemps sur le bateau, ainsi le trajet Kinshasa-Ilebo sera fait en 12 jours au lieu de 28 jours par bateau seul. Pas de chance dès que l'on ...
we got our visas
We got the VISAS!!! The bastards gave us a one year visa... Then cancelled the fucking thing, and changed it to a month one. What the HELL!!! Anywho, we are trying to see if we can organise to go to Zimbabwe before I come back. Will keep you guys ...
quiet little bitch
... see the Congo river, but I can no longer remember when we did that. I think it was the day before yesterday...Saturday. The Congo river is quite something. Where we were, there were heaps of rapids because of the rocks. Crazy thing is that, the road ...
Diamants
Il y a peu de temps encore, il fallait un permis minier pour pouvoir traverser cette région. Ils l'ont supprimé, heureusement car cela m'évite de perdre plus 300 dollars inutilement. J'ai fait un peu de photo dans cette ville car je suis resté que ...
Sunday in Goma - Day #4
... lives to Jesus. Good things happened all day and I am convinced that Jesus is transforming Didi's family! Following the service I got a personal tour of the Skills Training Center from John Bosco the director and discovered the landlord, who had ...
Goma, Congo Day 2
... first morning session of a four day Cross Style Conference. Of course as in most of Africa, worship is a large part of the service in Congo and we spent about an hour or more just singing and dancing (don't worry, they danced, I just ...