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Tailor-Made Itineraries
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Tailor-Made Itineraries
Best Time to Travel: May–October

Angola is a vast southern African nation transitioning from decades of isolation into one of the continent’s last true travel frontiers. It features a 1,600-kilometre Atlantic coastline, the second-largest waterfall in Africa by volume, and the world’s most genetically diverse collection of ethnolinguistic tribes in its arid south. Angola is the source of the Okavango Delta via its untouched highlands, compressing everything from deep jungle canopies to ancient Namib desert landscapes within its borders.
Discover Angola
The lush, interior province of Malanje holds Angola’s most powerful hydrological landmarks. Kalandula Falls dominates the landscape, surrounded by dense tropical gallery forests that create a permanent cloud of mist. Nearby lie the Pungo Andongo Black Rocks, a collection of massive, smooth volcanic monoliths that rise abruptly out of the savanna, wrapped in local tribal legends of the historic Kingdom of Ndongo.
The southwestern highlands around Lubango are defined by altitude shifts where the central African plateau breaks away to meet the desert. The Tundavala Fissure forms a sheer stone window over the lowlands, creating extreme microclimates where cool mountain air hits the rising desert heat. Drivers navigate this transition via the Serra da Leba, a switchback road that lit up at night forms one of the continent’s most iconic transport paths.
Luanda
39.2 million
Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Bakongo, other African, Mestiço (mixed European and African), Asian, European
Catholicism, Protestantism
Portuguese, Chokwe, Kimbundu, Kikongo, Oshiwambo, Luchazi, Umbundu
Angolan kwanza (AOA)
+244
UTC+1 (WAT)
Types C & F
May–October
Moamba de galinha (chicken stew with palm oil and okra), calulu (fish or meat stew with vegetables), funje (cassava flour porridge), grilled seafood
Namibia to the south, Zambia to the east, the Democratic Republic of Congo to the northeast, Atlantic Ocean to the west. Surrounds the exclave of Cabinda, which borders the Republic of the Congo and the DRC
Get an Angola e-sim locally through Unitel and Movicel outlets in Luanda.
Angola tourist visa information is available on the SME Portal. Contact us for visa assistance.
Prefer something entirely bespoke? Design a private Angola journey.

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Emma & James Wilson
Australia→Kenya
September 2024
Let’s do it! Perhaps you already know what you want to see and do, perhaps you don’t. Either way, we’ll create the best Angola tour for you.
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Where the desert hits the Atlantic Ocean, the landscape becomes hyper-arid. The Namibe Desert houses the Welwitschia mirabilis, a unique gymnosperm plant endemic to this region that grows only two leaves and can live for well over 1,000 years by absorbing sea fog. This coastline features abandoned colonial ghost towns, red sandstone canyons at Caracul, and isolated bays used by artisanal fishermen.
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David Smyth
Director, Forward Travel
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