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does anyone know how i can get hold of a letter of invitation to get a tourist visa into Angola? I have tried emailing various people/ companies in Angola but no luck (no answer!!!!).

I am happy to bribe someone for an extension of a 5 day transit visa if it needs to be done?
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If you are coming down from the north, absolutely forget about it. 5 days is all you will get - others very well positioned have tried and had no luck.

You can get another 5 days for a lot of dollars in the country if you are lucky, but Luanda is not the best place, and you might eat up all of your 5 days trying to get it and then be denied. Sickness might be a good excuse etc

Nutshell - impossible, forget it.

If you are going north, Cape Town will do. Elsewhere it is mainly miss with a few hits.

Search, plenty of info on this already.
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Hi Desert Driver, are you still in the UK?

If so, dont bother getting the visa now. According to my notes, you can get it at Matadi in the DRC. 5 days visa only.

We are going to go UK -> SA west coast route and plan on getting the visa in DRC, or even before that, like Cameroon just in case. Will not apply for visas in london as they are more expensive and you need these invitation letters etc.

If you havent left, when do you plan on leaving? Our original plan was to leave 1st Jan but looks like we now have to leave end of March 2011!
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Matadi won't give you are 5 day visa usually. Your only guaranteed place is Abuja in Nigeria, so for the 20th time on this board:

GET YOUR ANGOLAN VISA IN ABUJA, NIGERA - DO NOT LEAVE NIGERIA WITHOUT IT, IT IS ONLY $30 & YOU MIGHT GET IT IN ONE DAY IF YOU GO EARLY AND ARE ORGANISED.

Some people have been able to get in it Kinshasa, but with considerable hassle. Matadi seems hit and miss, with most people missing lately and being sent back to Kinshasa (which is a fairly awful and unsafe place)
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I was planning on the 5 day in the worst case scenario but was hoping on getting time in Angola rather than just passing through, it seems such a waste to drive all that way and then have to drive flat out to get from 1 end to the other.

I have heard as well as Abuja, also Accra arrange visas and was hoping to hand all visa requests in at Accra and collect them 15 days later in Abuja or Matadi as apparently it takes 15 days to process!!! I can get a letter of invitation for $75! pricey but worth it if we can stay in the country for 30 days!!!

DrKev;
I am leaving around end of Nov from the Canaries, there is a ferry from Las Palmas to Layounne on the 27th Nov or the 4th Dec and i am planning on drving from the UK mid Nov and getting the ferry from Portimao to Las Palmas and that leaves every Sunday and is cheap.

I only have 3 months off starting on the whichever day i catch the ferry from Las Palmas a friend is doing the UK- Las Palmas for me...
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You are wasting your time trying to get anything other than a 5 day visa from Abuja (& possibly Matadi/Kinshasa). Anything north of Angola, forget it.

*** Although they offer them, they don't issue them *** ;-)
(Maybe it will change though???)

I'm being blunt, sorry, but I know some very well connected people who couldn't do any better than 5 days etc etc etc etc.

They got a 30 day visa in South Africa and went back up.

As you say, a shame for all of us, but that is how they want it.
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