Ever since arriving in Angola for work last year, I had been pouring over maps of the region, examining what travel opportunities my new location afforded me. One neighbouring country in particular stood out: the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The true heart of the Dark Continent, the Congo still seems to capture the imagination, over a [...]

PATIENCE, LUCK and cash. Those are the three things you need most if you are going to travel through the Congo. No matter how crap things look when your riverboat breaks down or your bush aircraft does not turn up or the road you are driving along is suddenly swallowed by the advancing jungle, a [...]

It’s a widely accepted fact that there are few places left on the planet that have yet to be penetrated by the great white explorer. Some hidden corners of New Guinea and Ecuador may still throw up hoards of xenophobic, stick-wielding natives, but no longer do our world maps still have uncharted territories marked as [...]

On the day of departure, we received an e-mail from our friend in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which simply read: ”plane crash in Congo”. A humanitarian flight, with Air Serv, had crashed in the mountains near Bukavu the day before and it meant a good deal of changes in our travelling plans.

‘Tis the season to be jolly, for some at least. Elsewhere, ‘tis the season to rampage through the streets, rubbing out your adversaries and making life a misery for anyone that contests your anti-social behaviour.

Bradt Rwanda Travelguide – Janice Booth and Philip Briggs.
The first time I picked up a Bradt Travelguide, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Another Rough Guide? Another Let’s Go? Footprint or Lonely Planet perhaps? What I found was a new style that had certain similarities to some of the others, but at the same [...]

2006 has kept the news headlines coming thick and fast – from 13 car bombs in Iraq on the 1st Jan; through food shortages in Central Africa, to a summer of destruction in Southern Lebanon.