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Congo & Gabon
Congo Country 21 & Gabon Country 22 To cross the congo, we hired a ferry to take the 3 cars across. We were a little bit nervous when the cars were swinging in the air while they were loaded. Getting a car across the Congo River using this method can be quite expensive, especially on the Congo side when your cars are being held hostage…. After we crossed the Congo we stayed a couple of days in Brazzaville and then started the drive to Libreville to catch up with the rest of the team. We were 3 cars and only 3 drivers for this leg so we all had to…
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DRC
DRC – country 21 Wow, where to start, this has been the most challenging few weeks of my life, both physically and mentally. Driving through 1000kms of the DRC was never part of the plan, we were supposed to only do a short stretch of a few hundred km on “good ” roads. Due to visa problems, we couldn’t drive through Angola so had to enter through Zambia and drive from Lubumbashi to Kinshasa. I cannot explain how bad these roads are, huge messy deep mud trenches, rocks, water (well we did go in the rainy season…) the pics don’t show properly the depth of these trenches and what we…
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DRC – Road Tripping Through Mud!
Tomorrow we start our trip to Kinshasa, we were denied visas to Angola so had to find another way to get to Kinshasa, road transport, boat, plane were all no goes so we have to take the route from Lubumbashi to Kinshasa, a route I had researched and decided was too long and the roads too bad to make it even option. The Angola curve ball means we need to try it or the trip stalls to a grinding halt. We drove on Sunday from Windhoek and stayed in Rundu, the next day drove through the Caprivi to Livingston, and Tuesday made our way to Lusaka. I decided to not…
