Angola visa in Accra
 

To update on the Angola visa in Accra I would like to add:

1. Your letter of introduction / itinerary has to be in Portuguese. They read it very critically, and when they find any spelling or grammatical errors, the letter will be refused. They are also very helpful however, and with minor corrections they will correct them for you if you have a flash drive.
2. You need a sort of declaration that you will be good girl/boy when you're in Angola. They have a template for you that you can use. Mind you: it has to be in the same sort of Portuguese as the LOI, or it will be refused. In my case, they were very land, and typed it for me!
3. You need a copy of your Ghana visa.
4. Make a copy of your bank statement AND your creditcard

I have the impression that they work under very strict orders from Angola, which they have to comply with. They are also very helpful: they called me on Wednesday (at Big Milly's) that my visa was ready! Thank you ladies!

Cheers from Chez Alice, Lomé

Gee

In Point-Noire for Cabinda
 

Hey Fellows,

At the moment in Point-Noire to arrange a transit visa at the Angola consulate. A warning: be sure you have enough time to wait. So far I'm here a week and no result yet. Filling in was easy but now I have to wait for a phonecall. It's now Friday and I'm afraid that I will be here another Weekend.
The consulate is located on the Avenue Fayetta Tchitembo, no GPS Coordinates yet. It is the same street as the Adolphe Cisse Hospital, the biggest in town.

The town is great to hang out but after a week I want to continue.

Fabian, if you read this let me know when your are in town maybe we can have a beer again :-)

Cheers Richard

When I was in Pointe Noire, they didn´t even bother to let us in.

There is a big hotel/restaurant/club on the beach next to "club de petrollieres" where they have ridiculously huge swimmingpool, I guess the only one in town. Normally its for members only but ( as there are virtually NO tourists ) if you are well dressed, look european and act like you belong there nobody will approach you to show or pay anything ! :Beach:

Cheers,
Chris

Ok here are the GPS coordinates for the consulate of Angola in Point-Noire in the Republic of Congo.
S 04 .47 .516
E 011.51.552

Applying only on Monday and Tuesday pickup on Friday.

Transit visa = 13500 CFA
photocopy passport
photocopy congo visa
passport size photo
application form

I brought someone with me who spoke the local language and English.

Cheers Richard

Senegal Visa
 

Senegal Visa £100 or £75
Came in late 2013 or early 2014

Senegal visa is now €50 Euros online, and something like €2.50 Euros admin fee via SNEDAI. All has to be done online.

Since we are in Namibia since about two weeks ago here the last updates about our visa experiences.

Republic of Congo

Angola visa:
We went to the consulate (S4 47.510 E11 51.553) in Pointe Noire to try to apply for a transit visa for Cabinda so we would not use up our tourist visa. They were not unhelpful but told us that you are only allowed to have one active visa at a time. However an other traveller who got his tourist visa together with us in Accra was able to get a transit visa here just two weeks before. We also heard from other travellers who got a tourist visa issued here without invitation letters so if you do not want to go through the hassle of driving from Ghana to Angola in 2 months (visa validity) then Pointe Noire and Matadi would be your best bets.

Democratic Republic of Congo

Angola visa:
As we had used up our tourist visa with the visit to Cabinda we applied for an other one at the Angolan consulate (S5 49.707 E13 27.698) in Matadi. The staff here can be quite a piece of work but in the end we were successful. The one month single entry visa costs 101US$ (73€) and takes a week to process. However if you don’t want to wait they can issue an express visa. Fees for that are not really fixed as the regulations only say that “an express fee has to be charged”. We were quoted 200US$ (146€) instead of 101US$. Marc had an ace up his sleeves though and argued that his broken wrist needed immediate looking after in Luanda. We ended up paying 150US$ (109,50€) per person and could pick up the visas about two hours later.
Necessary for the application are copies of every single passport page with a visa or stamp on it as well as the main page, yellow fever certificate copy, carnet copy, car paper copy, 2 passport photos and an introduction letter stating the reason why you apply for the visa in Matadi and your intended itinerary in Angola. Note that if you are a couple you will still have to write individual cover letters!

Angola

Visa extension:
We ended up enjoying Angola so much that we decided to extend our visas. This can be done to our knowledge in Luanda, Lubango and Benguela. We chose the latter. You will have to locate the SME office (S12 34.930 E13 23.813) and state your request. We had to fill out one Portuguese form, hand in 2 passport photos and copies of our current visa and the passport main page. The cost for the extension was the equivalent of 90US$ in kwanza. We were first told that they could only give us another month from the date of issue so if you are only two weeks in you would only gain another two. Surprisingly we ended up with a full month on top anyway. Passport pickup was the day after.


And just to repeat myself, we would never get the Angola visa in Accra again as the two months validity absolutely did not harmonize with our usual speed of traveling and exploring the countries on the way. Pointe Noire or Matadi might not be as reliable but for us even posting the passports from Brazza sounds better than rushing through 7 countries. But then again, if you are traveling faster anyway Accra might still be the choice. :thumbup1:

More details and updated pdf again in our info section.

For whoever comes down that way, enjoy! It's been great!

Cheers
Fabian

Woo hoo for wootan...:D

Another page saved to my home screen...thanks guys.

Kevin and Heike...

Update
 

Mauretania Visa: Rabatt, 340 Dirhams, 1 Month
Senegal : Internet, 50 Euros, 3 Months- got in Nouakshott
Bissau : Ziguinchor, 20000cfa, 1 Months- took 10min
Conakry. : Dakar, 100000cfa, 3 Months multiple- most expensiv
Mali. : Swiss, 100Chf, 3 Months -ext 1 Month in Bamako 15000cfa
Burkina Faso. : Bamako, 31000cfa, 3 Months multiple
Ghana. : Ouagadougou, 25000cfa, 60 Days
Togo. : Bamako, 25000cfa, 1 Month multiple
Benin. : Accra, 80cedi, 1 Month multiple
Nigeria. : Bissau, 55000cfa, 3 Months multiple
Cameroon. : Calabar, 17000NGN/51000cfa, 45 Days
ROC. : Lome, 80000cfa, 3 Months
DRC. : Lome, 72000cfa, 2 Months- 10000cfa Resident Permisson Togo
Visa Entent is still possible, go to Immigration and not a Embassy. Found out about that to late....:scooter:

Btw: no Problems for any of the visas. Maybe Ghana because i had to write an letter of excuse. But thats it... sometimes 2 or 3 days waiting...