Africa Visa Summary

Attached is a summmary for all the visa information related to our trip along the West coast fo Africa. It includes all the costs for the visas, places we obtained them, time it took and other associated costs for the vehicle and crossing borders.

The toughest three countries to get visas for were : Nigeria, the DRC and Angola. Here is the best way we discovered, retrospectively, to get visas these three countries (other than applying in your home country):

Nigeria – The embassy in Guinea-Bissau gives Nigerian visas out without hassle, just make sure you get them to post-date it for when you expect to arrive in Nigeria. Otherwise, plead your case in the nearest embassy bordering Nigeria.

DRC – Find someone in the DRC, in one of the major towns with a DMG (immigration) office. Ask them to fetch a form, fill it out with your details and get the officials at the DGM to stamp it. You may need to supply copies of your passports for the forms to be released at the DMG office. The stamped forms can then be scanned and emailed through to be presented at the DRC embassy. We know the DRC embassy in Libreville accept this method, although cannot vouch for other DRC embassies.

Angola - The quickest options we know of for obtaining the visas en-route and out-side of your home country are to 1) obtain it via the Angolan embassy in Accra, Ghana. We met an overland group who confirmed that as of Jan 2013, they were still issuing visas to non-resident. 2) obtain a letter of support from someone in Angola and have it faxed to the embassy in Matadi (DRC), where you can then get either a 5/6 day transit or one month ordinary visa.

If you are interested in reading our story about how we obtained our visas, not knowing the information above, look for the blog entry entitled 'Visa Conundrum' at Indlovu

Anton and Tina
Indlovu

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