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Beautiful and quiet place to spend a night or more. It is definitively still open, with very large and well kept grounds, clean facilities (toilet paper, toilet seats, hand soap and hand towel) It also has a big sink to wash dishes or clothes but the outdoor showers have no water currently. The huge mango trees provide much needed shade (and I was still able to find a spot to get starlink reception). I couldn’t find an electrical socket to plug in but you may be able to plug into one of the cute cabanas if you ask. The only downside was the huge spider nests in the shower with hundred of long legged spiders coming out when I turned on the water…I will mention it to the keeper and hopefully this will be fixed, or resolved on its own if more people use the shower more often (it is low season here in Feb)

Nice and shady spot direct at the kite surfer beach. During day some people parking around, nobody at night here and super quiet. Due to the wind in the bay it’s not too hot here.
Great place to stay!

Passingshow restaurant for good juice and shake

Small station to fill propane tanks. Convenient and easy

Beautiful spot! but... we stayed here 5 nights without any issues. The last day, at 7:30 am, a young guy with a bike knocked at our door and asked us to pay him 100 pesos for that night! He told us it was his land... We didn't trust him because we met a lot of people fishing, walking, have a BBQ, etc... and we said we were not going to pay him and he left... and we left too... but de spot was great! 😂

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passamos duas noites. a praia tem mar calmo. e o lugar é bem tranquilo

After riding around at +43C for an hour and getting unbelievable quotes for rooms we finally found this.
A spacious room with nets, little terrace and en-suite is 600 per person. Very clean, electricity, fan. A/c is available, but for an extra fee.
Safe parking in the yard, there was also a person camping with a tent.
Alley to get there a bit small, so no big rigs.
Breakfast is 250pp extra and you get a huge omelette with onions, fresh bread and Papaya.

Trust Bank. Of course it accepted Visa as well. Maximum 4000 per transaction, multiple transactions possible. 170 fee per transaction.
If this ATM doesn’t work for you, there is an other one north of the bridge in the first settlement on the right, driving north.
The „no parking“ sign is 10m further, parking right in front of the bank is no problem and allowed.
No checks, nothing to worry about here.

Sports world parking lot across from the Walmart’s one . Nice , clean , quiet . No signs . Nobody bothered us . Nice night before heading north to cross the border back to U.S.

Dormimos na frente da loja, local tranquilo.

Very nice workshop and very professional
They all know what they talking about and they helped us to fix the car after 10months in Africa
You can go for what ever you want they will do their best to find a solution !

Mel is a great guy and all his team 👌🏼

Very nice experience
We took the boat on Sunday at 9pm and arrive at 6:30am the day after
For one car ( 2.4Tonnes ) + 2 people in a room with two single bed
We paid 260 000 shilling ( the prices went a bit more up than the previous comment)

They craned the car inside the boat ( Scaring but the team was great and very professional ! )
Anyway we recommand it as the people where very nice, the night was fine and it avoid us to go all around the lake after visiting Mwanza go to Uganda !

We spent 2 nights at the edge of this road. Perfect quiet place at 5 minutes from the center

It is called Gas de Oaxaca;
Easy place to fill up with room for a bigger rig to drive in

place where they produce and sells dried fruits and ananas juice
150g dried ananas 1500cfa
ananas jam 1500-2000cfa
juice 200cfa

they can show you the whole production process

Great place to get your overland rig serviced, repaired or modified. Steve, Daniel and the rest of the crew are very experienced and will take good care of you. It’s a Toyota overland rig Heaven, but they work on all types of rigs. Beyond regular servicing and repairs they can take care of you wheels, tires, suspension, armor, roof rack and other needs. They are honest and have great integrity. The best in the Los Angeles area.

There are security cameras on both sites at the gates. They look quite modern. For what ever reason. But any way, on rainy season the gras is very high and you can not drive behind those bushes. We didn't stay.

Marc is amazing. We had a great voodoo tour with him, and spent the whole day visiting places with him, he’s unstoppable.
Price wise he asked for 10k each which we negotiated down to 15k for the two of us.

Fetish priest (3k each) was great, absolutely worth it, chameleon church (3k each) was overpriced as you can’t get in. I would recommend to do that on your own OR to do that on a Sunday evening, when the ceremony is held (then 3k each would make sense I guess).
Visit of the fetish market was great and free. Marc is happy to take you in front of the different palaces and explain things without getting in (so you don’t pay the entrance).
There is no ticket for any entrance you pay, so we have no idea how legit the prices are.

Overall we’re really happy to have spent that money with him as he really did a great job. Next time we’ll come a Sunday evening for sure!

Small, clean laundromat. washing machines at 3 or 5 dollars, dryers at 2.50 or 1.50. Has a restroom.

Ocean front perfection! Little dirtroad that leads out of town and ends at the beach. Some spots with soft sand, drive carefully. I was fine in a 2wd but had to keep up speed.

February 2023, there was a huge shortage of diesel in the all country of Congo Brazza. Impossible to find diesel anywhere. We managed to get to Pointe Noire where we found our first congolese gas station how allow us to fully fill up. Be prepared for such situation. There is black market diesel but even locals are suspicious of the "Kadafis" (it how they call the street sellers) and advised us to not buy em anything. We begged at every gas station on the way, sometime with the help of police, to get 25 L here, 25 L somewhere else... Its 2100 km between Yaoundé and Pointe-Noire. Its a long drive without proper supply. Difficult but worth it, Congo is stunning.
If there is diesel at that gas station, fill up, even if its cheaper in Congo.

Tiny little bodega on the side of the road. They sell every vegetables and fruits you could find in Congo. Very clean place and very sweet owners. They have other little things like roasted peanuts, eggs, fruit juices and soda...etc. Pleasant little shop. We parked on the sidewalk.

The bathroom at the terminal are free and clean, but no toilet paper.

Very nice place we recommend as they have hot shower, very good kitchen (with oven!!), sort of living room and staff is very nice. They even offered the tea and we had a pleasant discussion around the stove.

We parked in the street and a crowd of people went directly to us, asking if we wanted to exchange money. So we did everything from our car, easy process. We had CFA left from Congo and we did got a way better exchange rate than at the border. They got us Sim Card as well. Be aware that cellphone data in Angola is very expensive compared to everything else we have seen in West Africa (1000 Kz for 1Go with Unitel). We dont really understand why the crowd was that big but they were all very friendly to us.

A very nice Catholic centre. Rooms:
- 20000 RWF for a double with en-suite bathroom
- 6000 RFW p.p. for rooms without bathroom

Spent a couple weeks here. Great place to camp for free. If you want more services you can pay in the LTVA area $80 for 2 weeks, but roadrunner is free. No services here though.

I confirm the scenic nature of the road but...
The Chinese are paving it. The first six kilometres from the junction with the main road are asphalt; the remaining part is divided between dirt road in good condition and disaster. Lots of mud despite being in the dry season.
I cannot say how long it will take to finish the work, but at the moment I do not recommend it.

As described. Flat area to camp and pitch a tent. Restaurant is expensive for the quality you get. Shower is cold and run down, but works.
There is a security guard at night, tipped him a 1$ to keep an eye for my Moto
Was quiet on Thursday night

Congo to Cabinda. Congo side very easy. Cabinda side, easy process too but a bit longer because they have to process the Evisa. They only asked us our printed Evisa, nothing else. They didnt even checked our yellow fever vaccins... dont know if we got lucky or what ? We could pay in euros, in 20s and 10s, no problem but at a bad rate (1$ / 1€ instead of 1.07 for that day) but we prefered to keep our dollars for the next countries.
We changed a few kwanza in the street to pay the TIP, about 6300.
Immigration is still asking for money to print copies of the Visa they just printed for 120 $... Ridiculous. One traveller we met at the border decided to pay for us without questionning so ... they got what they wanted. But i m sure there is a way to not pay the "fee".