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Ten days in Pointe-Noire for build an event !
Pointe-Noire la destination événementielle qui a de l'avenir.
Voici plus de 10 ans que je ne me suis pas rendu au Congo Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire.
Les changements sont énormes. Tout est entrain d'être créé pour le développement touristique. A chaque coin de rue s'édifie un hôtel. L aéroport de Brazzaville vient à peine ...
"This is it !"
... te nemen ?
Democratic Republic of Congo!
Having headed out of Cabinda, we arrived at the DRC border right at last minute, so it was quite a rush to get through the necessary immigration procedures before closing (all the while having to fend off some over enthusiastic locals trying to sell or in one unfortunate case pickpocket one of our people). After a bit of a rush however we managed to get into DRC just in time - running round ahead of the truck just as they were closing the border gates - ...
Congo and Cabinda
As we moved into Congo, this marked the start of one of the most difficult drive periods of the whole trip and so we readied ourselves for some long and tiring drive days, the positive being however that we really were heading off the beaten track and would often see people who have rarely (if ever) had contact with white people - again a main reason for doing this type of trip.
As expected therefore, the first ...
Angola Day 1 of 5 - Tough Day
Today's journey from Pointe Noire to Soyo, and the subsequent days spent hurtling through Angola to reach Namibia, is set against a bureaucratic backdrop in which I was only granted a 5-day transit visa for Angola.
And so today went something like this.
With three borders to cross in one day, and knowing the lengthy nature of such activities, I wanted to get to the Congo-Cabinda (Angola) border before it opened. Not knowing what ...
