From Rundu, it is entirely possible to visit Angola for a day. Currently Calai, Rundu’s twin town at the opposite side of the Okavango, doesn’t have any viable transport links with the inland of Angola. Most of the roads are still mined and there was heavy fighting as recently as 2000 during the Caprivi conflict, […]

Santa Clara is very much the average Angolan town, leaving aside the countless and hostelerias and pensao’s lining the main street. At the other side of the border, Oshikango looks like an American mall strip with warehouses and supermarkets lining the road, all busy with Angolans hopping across to do their shopping. Not only is […]

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Originally uploaded by gert.

Originally uploaded by gert.

Originally uploaded by gert.

will take photographs as well.

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Originally uploaded by gert.

A camera for Hugo’s Metal Works, a cooperative of welders in Namibe.

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Namibe is the run down provincial capital of Namibe province, bang in the middle of the desert, along the Atlantic coast. The weather is freezing cold, and a humid mist, brought by the gulfstream from Antarctica hangs over the town and never really dissipates. There’s a disused racetrack just as in Benguela, plenty of closed […]