Bradt Angola Guidebook
Angola travel guide. Expert travel tips and information on everything from Luanda hotels and restaurants to colonial sites, architecture, art and culture. Also features wildlife, birdwatching, national parks, Pungo Andongo, Benguela railway, Tchitundo-Hulo rock paintings, Cabo Ledo, M’banza Congo, Iona, Luando, Quiçama and Kalandula waterfall.
Edition: 4
Number of pages: 384
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Bradt Angola Guide
The latest edition of the only dedicated English-language guide to Angola.
About this guide to Angola
The updated Bradt Angola Guidebook remains the only dedicated English-language guide to this increasingly popular southern African nation.
Thoroughly updated, it includes full practical and background information, everything you need to know about the capital city, Luanda, plus coverage of the rest of the country in 19 chapters. Also featured are 37 maps, including detailed city maps for all 18 provincial capitals, plus a specific section devoted to the sometimes-tricky process of applying for a visa.
Bradt’s Angola is written by expert author Oscar Scafidi who lived and worked in Angola for five years, has travelled to all the country’s provinces, and who has successfully completed a record-breaking kayak trip along the length of Angola’s Kwanza River.
Thanks to his knowledge, Bradt’s Angola is ideal for everyone from independent surfers and bird-watchers on organised tours to fishing enthusiasts, conservationists, surfers, NGO workers and overlanders, not to mention adventurous travellers simply wanting to discover this intriguing country.
Angola continues to change at a rapid pace and offers everything from colonial Portuguese ruins to $100-a-plate sushi bars, landscaped waterfronts to grand public buildings, Portuguese and Brazilian heritage to frontier diamond towns, tropical rainforests to desert, and relaxed coastal resorts on 1,000km of unspoiled beaches.
It’s also the site of the UNESCO World Heritage listed Mbanza Kongo, once the centre of power for the Kilukeni dynasty, who founded the city almost 100 years before the arrival of the Portuguese.
Whether wildlife watcher or surfer, business traveller or pioneering adventurer, this updated Bradt Angola Guidebook provides all the information you will need to get the most out of this vast country.
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Contents
Introduction
PART ONE GENERAL INFORMATION
Chapter 1 Background Information
Chapter 2 Practical information
PART TWO LUANDA PROVINCE
Chapter 3 Luanda
PART THREE WESTERN PROVINCES
Chapter 4 Bengo Province
Chapter 5 Kwanza Norte Province
Chapter 6 Kwanza Sul Province
PART FOUR NORTHERN PROVINCES
Chapter 7 Uíge Province
Chapter 8 Zaire Province
Chapter 9 Cabinda Province
PART FIVE SOUTHWESTERN PROVINCES
Chapter 10 Benguela Province
Chapter 11 Namibe Province
Chapter 12 Huíla Province
Chapter 13 Cunene Province
PART SIX SOUTHEASTERN PROVINCES
Chapter 14 Huambo Province
Chapter 15 Bié Province
Chapter 16 Moxico Province
Chapter 17 Cuando Cubango Province
PART SEVEN EASTERN PROVINCES
Chapter 18 Malanje Province
Chapter 19 Lunda Norte and Lunda Sul Provinces
Appendix 1 Language
Appendix 2 Further Information
Index
About the author and updater
Originally from the UK and Italy, Oscar Scafidi (youtube.com/c/ScafidiTravels) has lived, worked and travelled in more than thirty African countries – including spending five years as a history teacher in Angola, during which time he thoroughly explored all 18 of the country’s provinces. A travel writer, political risk consultant and international educator, Scafidi has authored Bradt’s guidebooks to Tunisia, Angola and Equatorial Guinea; his wider travel journalism focuses on intriguing and often difficult destinations such as Somalia, Afghanistan, Liberia and Timor Leste. Scafidi has also written a travel narrative, Kayak the Kwanza, about his Guinness World Record-setting source-to-sea navigation of Angola’s longest river, the Kwanza, a 32-day journey of over 1,300km: a documentary film can be viewed at kayakthekwanza.com.
Ian Packham’s love affair with Africa began in the early 2000s. Since then, he has visited 40 of Africa’s 54 countries – and has become a full-time freelance travel writer, specialising in Africa. He has racked up over two years of travel across the continent, traversing Africa’s highways, alleyways, and national parks largely solo and by public forms of transport. Multiple trips to Angola across more than a decade, including extensive on-the-ground research to update the fourth edition of Bradt’s Angola, enables him to offer the latest insights into this rapidly changing nation while also taking the long view of tourism in the country. Packham previously updated the ninth edition of Bradt’s Ghana and been published in Travel Magazine, Africa Geographic, JRNY, Selamta, The i, The Independent, The Daily Mail, BBC Travel, Vera, Travel Africa, Beau Monde Traveller and two Bradt travel anthologies. For more, see his website: encircleafrica.org.