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

Santa Clara is very much the average Angolan town, leaving aside the countless hostelerias and pensao’s along 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 Namibia […]

are immigrants from the DRC and will take photographs as well.

I’m leaving a camera at Hugo’s Metal Works, a welding cooperative in Namibe.

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. A humid mist brought by the gulfstream from Antarctica never really dissipates. There’s a disused racetrack just as in Benguela, plenty of closed shops and hotels, one restaurant, three […]