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The road was nothing more than a one lane jungle track. Mike would remark after every few minutes of battling up or down a particularly nasty stretch that we were on nothing more than a hiking trail. 50km into our 160 needed to get us to Matadi border of the Angola-DRC and we were sweating [...]

We are finally able to travel into Cabinda! Unfortunately the internet has been a bit thin on the ground at the moment and we have been rushing and driving like mad people to try and ensure that our visas were acquired for Cabinda with enough time to be able to drive though the DRC [...]

South Africa
Km traveled: 777 km.
Fuel used (L): 101.
Km/L: 7.693.
Namibia
Km traveled: 2573.
Fuel used: 370.82 (l) @ R11.42 per liter of diesel.
Km/L: 6.938.
Angola to date:
Km traveled: 2128.
Fuel used: 201 (L) @ R2.90 per liter.
Km/L: 10.587.
Total average driving speed:
South Africa and Namibia: 74.85 km/hr.
Angola: 34.65km/hr.
Fish caught to date all released, except a shad, which fell [...]

We decided to cross the border from Namibia in Angola via Ruacana. Our plan was to drive via the Iona National Park to Flamingo Fishing Camp, which is 70km south of Namibe in southern Angola. We always new the road would be challenging, but this was ridiculous. We were given a track of a route [...]