Democratic Republic of Congo Travel Blogs
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- Kinshasa: the AftermathOn Friday just after 15h CAT the CENI announced, province by province, the results of DRC’s Presidential Elections, and thus declared Joseph Kabila’s second term as President over main opposition candidate Etienne Tshisekedi. This was not without its Posted by hobbit1 in Not really a travel blog | Dec 12, 2011
- Actual Results Day in KinshasaToday is actually Results Day. Tomorrow is the anniversary of President Kabila’s inauguration and under the constitution he is unable to remain as President for longer than 5 years – that run out in a matter of hours. For obvious Posted by hobbit1 in Not really a travel blog | Dec 8, 2011
- Results Day in Kinshasa Today is Results Day. After weeks of security planning, meetings and radio checks we were all ready to lock-down ahead of the election results today, and we headed to the supermarket on Saturday morning to do some last minute hibernation shopping. Posted by hobbit1 in Not really a travel blog | Dec 6, 2011
- Election Day in DRCToday is Election Day! It’s raining heavily this morning and there have been rumours that rain could delay proceedings [floods, access, comms] so we are hoping it clears up for the afternoon…… Planned rallies on Saturday and Sunday were cancelled a Posted by hobbit1 in Not really a travel blog | Nov 28, 2011
- Live from KinshasaToday is the first day of ‘restricted movement’ in the capital. We have all done our hibernation shopping [water, fuel and pasta] and made up our Go Bags [pants, hard-drive and cigarettes] and are now playing ‘wait and see’ Posted by hobbit1 in Not really a travel blog | Nov 25, 2011
- A year in the lifeI have put together a short video of 2011. Hope you find it interesting, it looks a lot better when viewed on full screen. Posted by Dangermouse in Tales From The Wilderness | Nov 20, 2011
- We are the angry mobWe are the angry mob; we read the papers every day. We like who we like, we hate who we hate but we’re also easily swayed. The Kaiser Chiefs, look them up they are an awesome band. So why am I Posted by Dangermouse in Tales From The Wilderness | Nov 6, 2011
- Not the puppiesThe area of the DRC I have been traversing on my never ending Easter egg style hunt for UXO is in the remote North West corner. It is a charming little part of the world, the people are friendly and Posted by Dangermouse in Tales From The Wilderness | Oct 30, 2011
- Don't stop until the spoon stands straight upThere are some things in life you should try. Undoubtedly there are some things that will make your life so much richer. Obviously the list is quite personal; skydiving for example will give you an experience that is hard to Posted by Dangermouse in Tales From The Wilderness | Oct 24, 2011
- SpidermanSome things just require a story of their own. Some things are just so incredibly incredible that to place them into another piece of prose is doing them a grave injustice. So for this tale I am not going to Posted by Dangermouse in Tales From The Wilderness | Oct 16, 2011
- Donald Duck and Papa SmurfI have finally gotten to work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (I will have to shorten it to DRC from now on as I don’t really type that fast and this could take forever otherwise) and it has Posted by Dangermouse in Tales From The Wilderness | Oct 14, 2011
- Hold your breathI quite enjoy being in a country where hardly anybody speaks English. That totally out of your depth feeling where everything is completely foreign and people look at you with a mixture of pity and frustration when they realise that Posted by Dangermouse in Tales From The Wilderness | Sep 21, 2011
- The Coke TestI like the heat of Africa and I am no longer good with the cold, but although DRC dry season has had me breaking out the fleeces and woollen socks it has been good for one thing - road travel. Posted by hobbit1 in Not really a travel blog | Sep 7, 2011
- Seven days in KinshasaI am back! And Kin is still as crazy as ever. I have slept for perhaps 6 hours since landing at midday on Saturday, fresh from the jungle and ready to fill my boots. And Kinshasa never disappoints....... The journey home Posted by hobbit1 in Not really a travel blog | Jun 20, 2011
- What is going on under the Equateur?!I have been in Gemena for 7 months now and I can quite honestly say I have never experienced anywhere like it before in my life...... Equateur Province is almost the same size as France and the River Congo divides Posted by hobbit1 in Not really a travel blog | May 20, 2011
- Toothpaste FlowerI have been brushing my teeth over the same rock since September, carefully chosen to avoid the vegetable patch and grass that our partner organisation is rather optimistically trying to grow, and I have returned from leave to find a Posted by hobbit1 in Not really a travel blog | Jan 21, 2011
- House on the River CongoIn 1883 Stanley arrived in Mbandaka and placed a rock on the South bank where he believed the Equator crossed the river, he was about 6km out. The heat when I arrived here was quite incredible, I could really feel Posted by hobbit1 in Not really a travel blog | Nov 12, 2010
- Cheese please!One of my boyfriend’s cousins is visiting Kinshasa at the moment. He was born here but left when he was 3 years old to live in Europe, 32 years ago. Last week they were leaving a terrace at 1am and Posted by hobbit1 in Not really a travel blog | Nov 8, 2010
- “The soldiers took my bike.”Richard and crew finally made it home last night; despite offering our generator and fuel and money for treatment and medicine, it appears the hospital was reluctant to encourage others through the doors outside normal working hours. I guess that Posted by hobbit1 in Not really a travel blog | Oct 29, 2010
- R&R in BeirutHaving a quick facebook chat with a friend based in Bashi last night [I can connect to fb and talk to my cousin in Teddington but can I text my friend at her office at the end of the road Posted by hobbit1 in Not really a travel blog | Oct 25, 2010
- Congolese Pigs......……..have bizarre faces, especially the dead ones…… I spotted this on an 8hr car journey yesterday so perhaps I was losing my mind a little at the time, but they seem to be smiling all the time and have rosy cheeks Posted by hobbit1 in Not really a travel blog | Oct 22, 2010
- 9 GolfI have a radio call sign?! This is still all a bit bizarre to me…… I have been working in DRC all year and moved from the capital Kinshasa to Northern Equateur 3 weeks ago. To people back home living in Posted by hobbit1 in Not really a travel blog | Oct 17, 2010
- Mzungus in the Mist We collected our new group (and extremely large group - 32 I think!) at Karen and after a very unorganized morning were on the way! Since the truck only seats 28 (and that's FULL) we also had Posted by ctravelbug in escape to africa | Jul 31, 2010
- Civil War Late in the afternoon of the 10th we finally made it to Kinshasa, the countries capital, and a city considered to be one of the most dangerous in the world. This fact Posted by binderblog in [Into and] Out of Africa | Dec 3, 2009
- GomaOf all the days for my camera to die, this was not an ideal one. I was standing on top of a glorious lava flow, with the remains of several houses to be seen, some at the second or third Posted by Gelli in Gelli goes South-ish | Jul 18, 2009
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