We crossed from Brazzaville to Kinshasa. Its expensive with everyone wanting to charge for this and that and there's a lot of hassle, but if you've got a cool head it's quite an experience.

We had to do the crossing there as our DRC visa was expiring the next day, otherwise we might have crossed elsewhere. The fact that it was the rain season didn't help.

Hippocampe is right, we got denied the Angolan visa in Brazza and Kinshasa, although a group behind us got visas in Dolisie. We went through the DRC to Zambia.

I believe the Angolan visa is valid for 2 months if you get it in your home country. Europe to the Angolan border in 2 months is possible, depending on the seasons.

Regarding multiple passports, just be aware you may experience some issues with this. We travelled on both UK and South African passports. We had trouble at the Zambian border where we exited DRC on our UK passports and wanted to enter Zambia on our SA passports. The Zambians didn't agree to this as we didn't have an exit stamp from the DRC in our SA passports. We had to enter Zambia on our UK passports otherwise we would have been denied entry. We got round this at the next border crossing (Zambia to Malawi) by asking the friendly Zambians to give us an exit stamp in both our UK and SA passports.

Good luck, send my greetings to Olivier at Hippocampe if you make it there.

Adrian

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