Grand Hotel Kinshasa

... -style school bus, being used as a taxi bus. By what strange road did that get here? Finally we arrived at the Grand Hotel Kinshasa. I gave Jacob some dollars for the taxi. I tried to change a twenty at the hotel desk, but they said they didn't have ...

... , no. We put 7500 Francs (15 dollars) worth of gas in, and set out. The first stop was the Memling Hotel. The Grand Hotel Kinshasa is way overpriced, but it was the only one I could be sure of without ever having been there. This time I wanted to check ...

... record day I managed 4 separate flights. These aircraft have, again, covered extremes. The UN operated 727s work my regular Kinshasa, Kissanghani, Entebbe route. Lighter Caravans and Beachcraft have taken me from main hubs to the field offices and, on one ...

... . And lots of drinking in the streets too, apparently.   He also told me that the manager of the Grand Hotel one of the two good hotels in Kinshasa had died unexpectedly. I asked what had killed him. "Sorcery", was the answer. "He was poisoned" said ...