Read more about the article Angola to Namibia: around the fence with a child-fixer
Looking out from Tundavala Gap, near Lubango

Angola to Namibia: around the fence with a child-fixer

Determined to salvage the day, it seemed Milton had hired a fixer. 'This is Maputo. He knows another way' he said, and pointed at the ten year old boy now standing next to him. We didn't know what to say. What we did know was that we definitely had to see what this was all about. So we piled back into Milton's sedan, this time with a child-fixer up front muttering in Portuguese.

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I guess according to Maputo's plan we'd have just hopped over this barbed wire

Crossing the border between Angola (Santa Clara) and Namibia (Oshikango)

Coming from Angola there are a few crossing points to Namibia. According to our friend Maputo you can cross wherever you'd like, but he's about ten years old and honestly, he's way more relaxed about that type of thing than we are. I'd stick to legitimate crossings.

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