Advantages: Most landings are completed safely Disadvantages: almost everything else
...at Kinshasa, you find your way into the large arrival area. There are four or five immigration booths where immigration officers stamp your passport. After working your way through the line you will pass through a large door into the customs/baggage claim area. There will be numerous apparent loafers around the door, and they may ask to see your passport. Some of these are, indeed, loafers and others are security agents. Ask to see identification before allowing anyone to gain possession of your passport. After baggage claim, you will present your baggage to the customs officer for inspection. Be very careful that your passport does not contain any visa or stamp from Burundi, Rwanda, or Uganda as a state of hostility exists between those countries and the DRC.
Milling about in the baggage claim and customs area will be a large number...
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Advantages: Different, off the normal tourist route.Can be fun if you know people there. Disadvantages: Logistic, administrative, accommodation nightmare and dangerous
..., hired a boat and had a wonderful day looking at the incredible scenery and bird life.
The hotels themselves have good restaurants and pools. A famous restaurant in town is the Carnivore which has a real cross section of Chadian life from the street girls at one end by the bar to the expensive restaurant at the other end serving some excellent steaks.
The local beer is good too and in a restaurant it only costs a couple of pounds for a 1 litre standard sized African bottle or about 65p if you buy it in a store.
Make no mistake N’Djamena is not for the Euroland tourist. It can, and I repeat CAN be fun, if you have contacts there who can chaperon you around, but otherwise it is best avoided. Countries such as Malawi and Burundi at least have some stunning scenery which Chad really lacks on the whole.
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29.12.2004
