Country Info
- Kinshasa
- Capital
- Franc Congolais (CDF)
- Currency
- 53,624,718
- Population
- CD
- Country Code
Democratic Republic of the Congo Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Congo - The Dem. Repub.
Vandaag weer een rondrit
Vandaag heeft de firma die ons hier ter plekke ontvangt me een chauffeur ter beschikking gesteld voor de gehele dag. Bill is zijn naam. Hij is zeer blij met me te mogen rondrijden want in de loop van de week werd hij aan me voorgesteld als zijnde ...
Getting to work
... . turns out he was my prac guy. small world. I have spent the night having traditional bulgarian cuisine, and a number of welcome to the congo brandy and cokes, each drink we would say 'nostravia' which is a russian toast to ones health. i feel like this ...
Rainforest, Tropics, ...
... in a tiny restaurant, underneath the ubiquitous Manchester United poster. Locals here often call us MONUC after the UN mission in the Congo (that's the only whites they have seen so far). Lubutu is a beautiful place, in the middle of the rainforest, with ...
Kinshasa
Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is a bustling city on the Congo River of 8-10 million. Across the River lies the capital of the Republic of Congo, Brazzaville. This is the only place in the world where two capitals lie ...
Handel & Wandel
Grote winkels zie je hier blijkbaar niet echt. Meeste handelswaren zijn te vinden al wandelend. In de stad zelf zie je de overgrote meerderheid van mensen rondlopen met allerlei waren ofwel op hun hoofd ofwel in de hand. Een ...
30.000?
Werkelijk een land van extremen. Hele rijken die dan ook werkelijk heel rijk zijn om wat wij gewone goederen vinden heel duur te betalen. En een overgrote meerderheid van mensen die verschrikkelijk arm zijn en in miserie leven. ...
Departing Kinshasa. NOT!
... -speaker. I found an Indian from London who told me there was some problems at the airport in Brazzaville (just across the Congo River from Kinshasa), but nothing definitive. At 3 p.m., they took us upstairs to the Grand Hotel Restaurant and ...
Mountain Gorilla trek in the DR Congo
... a hideously early start as we have to be dressed and on the truck by 6am to head to the border to cross from Uganda into the DR Congo where we will be trekking. Just 45 minutes after we depart, we arrive at the border. This is followed by 2 hours of ...
De grote zondagse trip
We hadden afgesproken om zondag om 8 u 's morgens te vertrekken naar watervallen buiten de stad. Gezien het de vorige dag geregend had moest dit vroeg genoeg zijn om er zeker van te zijn dat we de lange weg konden afleggen (soms is dit door de ...
week one in the books!!
... nbsp; They all greeted us a million times and wanted to shake all of our hands over and over again. It is customary in the Congo to greet everyone individually, so I made sure to shake everyone’s hand. The rest of the day I recovered ...
FAQ sur ma mission
... Mwero Lake is the nearest biggest lake in the area. Lubumbashi (LBB) is the project capital, but the official capital of RDC (République démocratique du Congo or named Zaire previously) is Kinshasa. I know you've all heard about the conflict ...
kamperen op een schoolplein
Weer eens wat anders. DRC is niet zo veilig op het moment, dus zoeken we naar zo veilig mogelijke plekken om te slapen. Niets is dan beter dan een katholieke school. De tenten mochten we op het binnenplein neerzetten. Het mooiste vond ik het wakker ...
Goma: Building a Foundation
Today I left Rwanda to visit some of our programs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Patrick Njakani-Okoko, WfWI Sub-Office Manager for North Kivu Province, meets me at my hotel and escorts me across the DRC border 2.5 kilometers away. He ...
Travel to the Congo
... ., and everything goes through a scanner again, as you again walk through a metal detector. After running this gauntlet, I finally entered the small departure area – about 100 feet by 60 feet which is all there is for the whole airport. I headed for ...
Caterpillars and brown ale
... caterpillars: was underwhelmed. I made the mistake of concentrating on their flavour, which can only be described as grey. The texture you can doubtless imagine. Fortunately, the aforementioned Katangan brown ale was both tasty and on-hand. Extra ...
The DRC so far...
... find said floor. Today is a public holiday for Liberation Day. They have a few days of liberation, independence etc because the poor Congolese have been overtaken so many times. The ex-pats here complain about so many public holidays, but I would ...
Panzi Hospital
... the room has exploded with clothes, books and shoes. As a sign of our newfound domesticity I've decided to start writing a bit about Congo, the work we are doing here and so on. So no action packed Pete and Karen Adventures this time (though there are ...
Getting in Touch with Our Spiritual Side
It's in places like Bukavu where the opportunity to sit in a 3 hour long Church service can be a highlight. Church services in the Congo are a bit like a U2 concert, lots of good singing, music, dancing with some preaching on the side. So on Sunday ...
In to the Congo
Went into Goma which had recently (2002 i think ) been burried in about a metre of lava, wasnt much to ee or do in the town although was well worht the visit. Also didnt appear as dangerous as everyone told me it would ...
The amazing Nyiranongo volcano
... 300m deep, with a live lava lake spewing forth little lava bombs and plumes of molten rock. It was absolutely amazing – the most spectacular natural phenomenon I have ever seen – You can keep your Victoria Falls. It was mesmorizing and we sat ...
Tintin
Aan de westkant van Kinshasa is ee leuk plekje. Een beetje te vergelijken met 'St Anneke' en uiteraard komen we daar Tintin tegen..... ...
Breaking News From the Congo
... treacherous midnight hike to the dubious outhouse hovering on the edge of a cliff. Day three of our adventure in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the poorest country in the world according to the IMF, we coaxed our screaming leg muscles to carry us down ...
Lets all do the congo!!
Lets all do the congo! I've been waiting for a while for that title!! So, today we headed to the Congo. The patient had appendicitis and needed transfer. Seems straight forward….but of course things are NEVER as they seem here!!! So we get to the ...
Bukavu: Income Generation
... to dry, or up to one month in the rainy season. They are sold for $5USD each. These participants plan on expanding the ceramics program after graduation closer to where they live. Five women have come together to purchase and provide plots of land to be ...
Trip to the Congo
Goma has been victim to a huge vulcano eruption of Mount Nyiragongoin in January 2001. Today the town is still in lava. Those houses which have not been destroyed do now have cellars and when you look out of the window of the cellar, you have a huge ...
Going into the Congo
Whilst I was in Rwanda I deciced to pop over to Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I had been planning on going whilst in Rwanda and want to check out the security of the country before I went. I meet 3 American girls who were quite keen on the ...