It took nearly seven weeks to get our visas for Angola and when we finally had them issued in Matadi, DRC, they did not give us much time. In fact, they only gave us a five day transit visa, so we had to haul ass through more than 2,000 kilometers of bad roads. Angola is quite a unique place. You can tell from the destruction in many of the villages and towns, the extreme landmine danger and by the military equipment scattered throughout the countryside that the civil war had only recently ended. However, the people of Angola were some of the friendliest we had me in Africa to date. Angola is an intriguing country and it was a shame we had such little time to explore such a diverse and vast landscape.
Category Archives: New Photos
New Photos – Volcano Chaitén
October 12, 2008 – 6:24 pm
Melissa recently wrote a more objective point of view about the devastation left behind by the Chaitén volcano. More simply and more personally, all of us agree that this is one of the most devastating things we have ever witnessed firsthand. Just looking at photos or the video we will have up soon can only paint a small picture to the feeling that comes over you when entering a town that has been abandoned for all practical purposes …
Buenos Aires Zoo
September 16, 2008 – 5:24 pm
Does anyone need a tour guide for Buenos? At this point all of the fine crew members of TWBR are starting to really rack up the qualifications. Most recently the search for customs-wait diversions has led a few of us to the Buenos Aires Zoo …
New Photos – White Shark Diving
September 15, 2008 – 10:39 am
South Africa is one of the only places in the world where there is an abundance of Great White sharks. South Africa also happens to be one of the only places where they offer commercial cage diving so you can see these amazing creatures up close in their natural environment …
New Photos – Winelands
September 14, 2008 – 10:38 am
South Africa has some of the best wine in the world. To go along with that wine, the wine growing regions in South Africa are simply amazing in terms of their beauty …
New Photos – Garden Route
September 13, 2008 – 10:17 am
The Garden Route is essentially the stretch of coastline in South Africa from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town and is argueably one of the most spectacular drives in the world… up there with the Pacific Coast Highway in California, USA and the Great Ocean Road in Australia …
New Photos – Cape Town
September 12, 2008 – 9:44 am
Cape Town, South Africa is a great city. It is a very international and cosmopolitan city with shades of Sydney and San Francisco, but it has a culture that is definitely unique …
New Photos – London
September 7, 2008 – 10:49 am
Check out our new photo set from when we were in London last January.
New Photos – La Boca, La Loca
September 5, 2008 – 4:14 pm
A district of Buenos Aires named La Boca is probably what many of you have seen in travel photos of this city. It is a place where the local people have managed to spruce up one of the poorer neighborhoods in the city by painting the walls with bright colors and lining the streets with eccentric artwork…
New Photos – The Hurtigruten and the Mad Race from the North
July 22, 2008 – 6:11 am
In 1893, the crazy Norwegians living in the north of their country were mostly cut off from the outside world. With giant fjords and mountains blocking easy paths to and from the northern coast, inhabitants could hardly receive letters, let alone even consider the idea of leaving. What is now called the Hurtigruten group changed […]
