Exploring Luanda, and staying!

After being turned back at the border, we returned to Angola and decided to settle in Luanda. We chose to plant our roots near Cacuaco, at a place called Kakuakos.
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David spent endless hours attending to his descriptions of new Hermannia species, and I, well, I got up to all sorts of crafty things. Loom knitting, crocheting, rock painting, swimming, sleeping, and supporting the amazingness that is David Gwynne-Evans.
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We both fell in love at a local supermarket, Maxi’s, met and made friends with new overlanders, played many games of table tennis and pool, enjoyed time with our equine friend Agetha, visited the herbarium, recruited the help of come local men to help us break into our car to retrieve our keys, and swam often in what we like to call “our pool”. Exploring Luanda’s coastline, tasting local treats, and of course, enjoying Angolan cerveja.
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After David’s Black Friday shopping spree, which was impossible to deliver to Angola, we started conjuring up a sneaky, unexpected plan to head back to Cape Town to surprise David’s mum for Christmas! That is when we decided to head back to South Africa.
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Ahhhhhhh, while crossing from Angola into Namibia, we were both taken aback by a shocking, unexpected fine for overstaying our time in Angola by a whopping 25 days! After many hours of trying to "creatively" negotiate our way around this, we managed to make a payment plan, which is really not as simple as you would expect. We were finally allowed to enter Namibia on December 20th at 5 pm. The dash was on to reach Onrus, by the 23rd of December, *big breath*Let's do this!Read more