Three days in Brazzaville

The plan was to stay in Brazzaville till Friday and then take the ferry across the river to Kinshasa, stay there till Monday and go back home. I even had bought ticket a few days before. I’m using my points from the travels I had done with work, it’s so much easier this way, as […]

Pointe-Noire to Brazzaville

I showed up at the Ocean du Nord bus station around 5:45am, just like I was told. Apparently there are two Ocean du Nord stations in town but somehow the taxi managed to take me to the right one (the taxi driver asked if I would be travelling from that station and he knew which […]

Visa no. 13: Congo in Cotonou

The Republic of Congo has an honorary consulate in Cotonou. It’s a bit away from the city centre but the 10kms cost me 600cfa on a zemidjan. They ask for passport photocopy (there is a place to do it on a street parallel to where the consulate is), one passport photo and hotel booking. A […]