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We received our marching orders and have departed for a posting in Kenya for two years. A part of the blog will be to put in random thoughts and experiences along the way and another part will be to illustrate life here and any trips.
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Kinshasa Guest Houses
Check out 3 hotel reviews, photos, videos and experiences from real travelers who've stayed in these 2 guest houses. You'll also find some amazing hotel and flight deals and useful ratings to help plan your next trip.
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I am going to the DR Congpo
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| Back to Africa: West, Central, East, and South |
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This will be a month-long pastoral dash through African countries suffering from precarious governments, civil war, one of the world's highest violent crime rates, and a cholera outbreak to name a few points of interest. Then I'll go on to two islands of ...
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| Riding the equator: a trip through Congo, Burundi, Rwanda and Kenya. |
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A pastoral trip through sub-equatorial Africa.
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| Into Africa: A pastoral trip through jungles natural and concrete. |
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Come along as I visit three countries south of the equator: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya and Rwanda; and three just north: Cameroon, Togo and Cote d'Ivoire. You'll see life in big cities and in rural villages. Also a bit of Paris at the ...
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... joy.
We walked a half mile or so through the sandy parking lot, up the side road to the main road leading to Kinshasa. After negotiating with the driver of an old Toyota station wagon taxi (final price: about 10 dollars), the three of us drove the ...
Kinshasa, Congo - The Dem. Repub.
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Arrival in Kinshasa |
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... 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 the driver. "Someone wanted ...
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... , 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 ...
Kinshasa, Congo - The Dem. Repub.
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Kinshasa so far |
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... apparently it went ahead in another flight, that is
code for, its totally never going to get here. I saw the airport at
kinshasa, no way is anyone getting their luggage back. This sucks
because Dawn had presents for me. :(
Anyway, I really should ...
Kinshasa, Congo - The Dem. Repub.
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Last full day in DRC |
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... can help it.
Mr. Mukendi has offered to pick me up early tomorrow and drive me to the airport. It's important in Kinshasa to leave plenty of extra time because all sorts of things can happen on the road out there and even in the airport itself. ...
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04 Traffic in Kinshasa
Traffic is almost pure chaos (there actually are few rules). Note how they ...
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The view from my hotel room window. The Congo River is visible in the ...
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