Angola's Provinces and Smaller Cities | Cidades do Interior de Angola

Here are some new photos from Angola´s provinces (they are mainly all taken in 2003 and 2004)...but what surprises me is that a lot remains intact or has been restored...more investment is also trickling inn, I have heard and read....well there are still no glitzy high-rises but the need and emphasis is and should be on other things now.

I start with Lubango











Those who have been to Portugal (Lisbon) know these platform from where you can have an overview over the city...

























a public garden






Well, this cine-theater has certainly seen brighter days but the photos dates back from 2003, it is probably has changed.












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This is Benguela, Benguela is not really small city in Angola but it is smaller than Luanda

























another public garden and monument area





This is the headquarter of the Commercial Association in Benguela












These have been recently 2004 restored and it lloks good



before restauration



after restauration




before restauration



after restauration



new highway to Lobito



another public garden








cafés and restaurantes

















look at these pictures, up there is a restuarnt and hotel (it is written on the page)












....to be continued on Benguela.....

It looks like both Angola and Mozambique inherited from Portugal very good infrastructures. Buildings are nicely designed, parks and streets that are wide and orderly are well taken cared of by the present governments.

In comparison, Congo has to fix their infrastructures. Some of their cars and buses have already reached their lives and need to be retired.

all these photos are still in Benguela and around it






















here they are building a new public garden




This is MISS BENGUELA

This is just part of the project as Luanda Plaza consists of 4 main buildings (apartment, office, and a Hotel managed by Hilton). It will be built by a Portuguese-Angola construction company at a cost of 120 million dollars.

Part of the project





Projecto de habitação, escritórios, comércio e Hotel, composto por:

* 2 Edifícios de Habitação de luxo – com 70 fogos
2 Edifícios de Escritórios
* Área Comercial
* Estacionamentos – 5 caves
* Hotel de 5 Estrelas com 230 quatros.
* Gestão: Será entregue à cadeia hoteleira Hilton Hotels.
* Área de Construção: 87.000 m2.
* Localização: Rua Rei Katyavala, Luanda


Interior photos

Well, my last posting is again misplaced in this thread because it is in Luanda and not its provinces. I could just slap myself for being so absent-minded:bash:

At any rate, I believe Angola and Mozambique have great futures. Their governments are well organized and working.

Lochinvar,... me, too.... although great challenages still exist...but I think Angola´s take-off will by far exceed that of Mozambique because Angola has a lot of more money and investors flocking to that country than it is the case for Mozambique...I am not well informed on Mozambique, so correct me if you know better.

Gaddemn. I heard Angola has the prettiest BLACK women in all skin tone in Africa, overlooked because of war.

I had no idea other Angola cities looked so intact. I figure that because of the war only Luanda had descent infrastructure and that the rest of the country was shit. This is an Eye opener.

Naijalove, yes Angola truly has very nice Black women (I have seen it myself)...and there are many many nice mulatta girls (black and white), too!



You are to blame, investment trickles down to the provinces (slowly) and as you can see a lot of the beautiful architecture is being restored. One thing I like about lusophone countries is that the Portuguese build like crazy (but maybe because the colonial period was very long and intense ,500 years, and due to the massive Portuguese community in Angola), in Angola you have a lot of very well planned cities. Restoration work is going on there (I have been told). ...however, you have also cities like Huambo (former "Nova Lisboa"/"New Lisbon") which have regrettably been heavily damaged. War raged wildly around that area....but investment and public spending is also trickling down to Huambo.

Namibe is another smaller city in Angola which lies in the deep South from Angola and it is not too far from Namibia

these are all relatively new photos that I have found

All the following photos show the city of Lubango and its surrounding landscape

Sierra de Leva (Near Lubango)



"Christo Rey"





tourist map of Lubango



beautiful small church

More Lubango pics. All of the following pics were taken in 2006



the views around the city of Lubango are awesome.


















still some ugly war scars left....



new roads



old but nice portuguese-style Casino
















Lubango hang out spots/some people of the place (Kaysha is a famous singer, he appears on some of the pictures)

way to the Casino of Lubango



Lubango street scene



"Cascate de Huila" (area not far from Lubango)

The following two pictures show the city of Namibe








Namibe landscape



road out of Namibe



the marginal of Namibe



desert landscaper around Namibe















see Namibe Esplanade , cannot post it directly

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hennie_...ach/256163708/

Here are a few photos showing the city of Benguela









this is a pic showing the outskirts of Benguela



outside of Benguela



entry to a school in Benguela



Benguela street scene (taken in 2003)












snack shop




smiling nice kids in Benguela





esplanada do Benguela

Benguela people and the singer Kayesha during his tour in Benguela

All of the following photos show the city of Lobito







near lobito port



















these are some more landscape pics from the region Huila:













Although I only want to show modern day (post-war) photos of Angola´s provinces I just found these three maginficient pics showing Lobito before the damned ******* war....30 lost years ....I could just burst:bash: :bash: :bash:

Here are some more Benguela photos.....













































college building in front



school building in front





adorned streets for Christmas celebrations in Benguela



train monument in Benguela