I had a great sleep and wandered to the truck at 9 to meet the group to get our information together for the Angolan visa. To start, we needed two passport pictures, a copy of our passport, a copy of our yellow fever vaccination and our passport. Ella and Short Brian took that in and we waited. I got a SIM card because the wifi in the hotel is shit, at least with my IPad. Michelle was kind enough to let me use her phone to get my card because the one I have borrowed was dead.
She too got bit up pretty badly the other night in Gabon-
Luckily my bites have pretty much disappeared.
The next step to getting the visa was to fill out a three page form. What a crock! They gave us one copy and it was up to us to make enough for our group. Assholes! The photocopy machines here are from the 1970s so it took about an hour and a half to get the copies made. Once the forms were filled in, Ella and Short Brian went in again. Now supposedly we'll pay $1580 US in the morning and then get our visas. How ass backwards is all that? Oh well, I've got plans to spend the day in my room so I don't really care!
I've been looking for a flight home the past month or so and prices just keep going up and up. I can't book yet because we can't be sure when we'll get to Luanda. I'm hoping I can fly home on the 29th and it will take 2 days but flights on the 30th, at least with WestJet, are already sold out from Toronto to Saskatoon so time will tell. I may never get home!
We're off to Pointe Noire tomorrow afternoon to camp on the beach for a couple of nights, presuming we get our passports back!
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