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We got it right on the border. It seemed to be at their discretion so not a certain outcome... an element of risk... but good enough for us. Once the stamp was in our passports we waited to hear the price but no one asked for money! We didn't hang around to check!!
I'll be back in Brazzaville 23 May... will you be heading that way?
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Hi Charlie,
I was turned back by the Nigerian immigration. No possibility whatsoever for a transit. They would stamp me out, but I would only be sent back. Couldn't take that risk of course. So went to the Afi Drill ranch to relax for a few days, and then to Calabar for the visa. The days in the Afi Mountains were fabulous, btw!
Cheers from Calabar, Nigeria,
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Liam mate, that's a nightmare! Hope you get your passport soon and can join us back on the road! I'm in Lome today. I just got freshly knocked back by the Angola Embassy for a visa, took me a long time to understand "you need to live in Togo for 6 months" in French... I'm about to go and have a crack at Gabon, if I can find it. Am I the only one who thinks that finding embassies is a bit of a crapshoot?
Thanks for the update Gee, very useful information indeed! Please let us all know how things go in Calabar, I've got my fingers crossed for you mate.
Cheers,
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Hi Charlie,
I was turned back by the Nigerian immigration. No possibility whatsoever for a transit. They would stamp me out, but I would only be sent back. Couldn't take that risk of course. So went to the Afi Drill ranch to relax for a few days, and then to Calabar for the visa. The days in the Afi Mountains were fabulous, btw!
Cheers from Calabar, Nigeria,
Gee
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Gee
The Afi Mountains look wonderful (via a spot of Google tourism!)... great to hear you could spend time there. I sense that the second part of my trip (from Brazzaville all the way south and then up the east side) will include a bit more 'appreciation'.
Although we missed out on Afi, the trip through northern Cameroon introduced a whole new world of thick forests and hills and wildlife... which continued through much of Gabon and Congo. It made most of the preceding countries drab by comparison.
Good luck in Calabar and take care. I'm not sure how restful life is in that corner of Nigeria!
Charlie
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when I did my planning for Africa trip I asked the UK passport office for a 2nd passport and explained that travelling through Africa was sometimes a bureaucratic nightmare (they agreed) and was issued with a 2nd passport. That is now after 4 years of travelling nearly full even though I asked for a 42 page one. I always travel only one and keep the other as a back up.
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