| Page Views: 2,956 Last Visit to Lobito: January, 2005 | A Time Warp by jungleboy - last update: Jan 19, 2005 |
Lobito is a port just North of Benguela and is also the starting point of the Benguela railway that streaches far into the African continent. The town has clearly had a prosperous past as streets are lined with large colonial mansion houses, cinemas, bars and cafes. However it is a bit of a ghost town at the moment although there doesn't seem to be much physical damage done by the war. |
|  | Lobito also has an Ilha like Luanda with beaches streaching along it. It wraps around the port which is said to be bigger and better than the one in Luanda. |
There are a couple of good hotels in Lobito and there is a good clean beach at the very end of the Ilha. It has good security and the owners of the bar/restaurant there let us camp on the beach for New Year. | | |
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| Pros: | "amazing architecture, clean streets, lots of bars/restaurants, nice beaches, a few shops/hotels" | | Cons: | "roads to Lobito not very good! But they are passible." | | In A Nutshell: | "A little time capsule" |
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franciscoprata Sun Sep 13, 2009 15:41 UTC
HI I was born in lobito very very near from the mermaid in the picture and the reason is that a danish man fall in love for the city but still missing is country, so he order the building of the mermaid wich is a danish symbol | boregaard Fri Nov 14, 2008 22:04 UTC
the people there are freindly and want to show you the area. they like to have thier picture taken and want to talk to foreigners. | isacorreia Sun Sep 9, 2007 15:21 UTC
Its called Canata I belive... its much bigger now... with 2-3 story high mud houses. |
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