This new third edition of Bradt's Angola remains the only dedicated English-language guide to
this increasingly popular southern African nation. Thoroughly updated it includes full
practical and background information everything you need to know about the capital city
Luanda plus coverage of the rest of the country in 16 chapters. Also featured are 36 maps
including detailed city maps for all 18 provincial capitals plus a specific section devoted to
the sometimes-tricky process of applying for a visa. Bradt's Angola is written by expert author
Oscar Scafidi who lived and worked in Angola for five years has travelled to all the country's
provinces and who has successfully completed a record-breaking kayak trip along the length of
Angola's Kwanza River. Thanks to his knowledge Bradt's Angola is ideal for everyone from
independent surfers and bird-watchers on organised tours to fishing enthusiasts
conservationists surfers NGO workers and overlanders not to mention adventurous travellers
simply wanting to discover this intriguing country. Angola continues to change at a rapid pace
and offers everything from colonial Portuguese ruins to $100-a-plate sushi bars landscaped
waterfronts to grand public buildings Portuguese and Brazilian heritage to frontier diamond
towns tropical rainforests to desert and relaxed coastal resorts on 1 000km of unspoiled
beaches. It's also the site of the UNESCO World Heritage listed Mbanza Kongo once the centre
of power for the Kilukeni dynasty who founded the city almost 100 years before the arrival of
the Portuguese. Whether wildlife watcher or surfer business traveller or pioneering adventurer
Bradt's Angola provides all the information you will need to get the most out of this vast
country.
