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Roads from Luanda, Angola to Kinshasa, DRC
Here is the route I took and it's current condition.
North from Luanda to the turn-off for Barro do Dande. -Some construction and bits of crappy road, but mostly just too much traffic. North on Barro do Dande road to junction with Caxito road. -Brand new tar. North of Junction to N'Zeto -Bad to worse as you go north. road gets more and more broken with mud and sand. North of Musserra it gets lots of deep sand/powder sand, mud and ruts. N'Zeto to M'Banza Congo. -All good tar except 30km, starting 75km out from M'Banza which is hard gravel waiting for tar. M'Banza Congo to Luvo border crossing. -Once again terrible. It was dry for me and still very bad in places. Reading about people doing it in the wet makes me shudder. Luvo- Songololo, DRC -Decent gravel, light corrugation, very minor ruts. Songololo-Kinshasa -Good to excellent tar. No pot holes or ruts. On another note, I first did the Luanda-Caxito-Uige-Negage-Maquela do Zombo-Banza Sosso border crossing route. It is 100% good to excellent tar to Maquela do Zombo (I didn't go further because of bike issues). I was told about and shown pictures of the DRC side of this route and decided that maybe I'd like to see more of Angola and try a different route... Check out AMIGOS DA PICADA under 'galeria' and go to the Raid Kinshasa for an idea of the road conditions (from my understanding, nothing has changed). |
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