We spent a wonderful month touring Angola. Big Bertha added 4,426km to its odometer in that time and coped admirably with the high sulphur fuel. Luckily the fuel price is low in Angola – about 34p/litre. The road condition is very varied and we experienced perfect tarmac recently laid by Chinese contractors, absolute nightmare ‘tarmac’ roads with more potholes than […]
It wasn’t so long ago that civil war was tearing Angola apart. The Portuguese withdrew in 1975 after 500 years of rule leaving a vacuum and power struggle between the rival Angolan political factions. A brutal civil war ensued for the next 27 years which ended in 2002. The country has been difficult to visit and it is only recently […]
When we first considered Africa, we toyed with the idea of driving from Morocco down the West Coast. I looked at the map and the highlights of each country, searching for something that really stood out. I hesitated at Gabon (possibility of seeing gorillas), but there was no way I could bypass Angola. My research showed a country with BIG […]