Camp Rio Longa
Travel Blogs from Luanda
Week 2
... because it was not safe...and literature was hard to come by..some months they said they would place nothing the next month they would place 300 mags and books..we have it so easy..they came to the branch 6 years ago...now they are in a hall that was formed a year ago with 90 pub. they have 300 in attendance every week. 15 people a day get baptized here..7% growth last year. we had the privilege of being there for the first ...
Luanda
... man für einen Fleischspieß mit Brot an einem Straßenstand flockige 1000 Kwanzas (etwa 10 $ US) abdrücken muss. Ein Vergnügen, für das man auf dem platten Land etwa 100 bis 200 Kwanzas bezahlt. Aber das ist kein Wunder, wenn man sieht, was für Schlitten durch die Stadt bewegt werden und auch die Boote in unserem Yachtclub könnten sich durchaus in Monte Carlo sehen lassen. Es gibt ein krasses Gefälle zwischen dem innerstädtischen Luxusbereich und ...
Every day is a good day!
My day started at 3.00am. the music nearby was so loud it was impossible to sleep. I decided to find the source of the noise. I had to jump the wall of this compound as the security guard was asleep.
I promptly found the source of my insomnia; a wedding reception in a nearby building. It was full of exuberant people dancing and drinking. I then sourced a further noise across the street coming from a disco bar nightclub. Given the phrase, "If you cannot beat them join ...
Aug 16, 2011: Somewhere in Angola
... they have to visit the signposted waterholes thereby making a fine spectacle for homo sapiens.
Another word of advice….cut your losses early. If it’s the middle of the rainy season and you haven’t seen anything for 2 days, increasing the frequency ...
Angola
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Dist cov. = 143 km
18th - Waiting for our radiator to be fixed and hopefully in a town 90km down the road to Luanda we can extend our visas, of which this is the 3rd day of our original 5-day transit visa and we've only managed to travel 300km into Angola. It looks like although Angola didn't seem to want to let us in, it now won't let us leave.
Lene and Tamlyn have left the truck to travel to Luanda and leave the ...