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N'Zeto
The 1st of June, 2014, 09:00 - the tour has officially started as we left the capital city of Luanda, heading to the north of Angola.
The goal is N’zeto!!
N’zeto is a fisherman’s village that was a popular seaside vacation spot during the Portuguese colonial era.
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We drove on the Cacuaco road until we reached Caxito, a nice small town with a nice market and an old sugar factory that belonged to the Cubans. From Caxito we needed to find an alternative way to continue north, since the bridge was under construction.
After 40 minutes of various directions we got from the Caxito people, we managed to find a small motorcycle bridge that lead us back to the main road.
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We drove for about an hour on a new amazing road and then, unfortunately, we came across a truck accident. We stopped and gave them a bottle of water to have while they wait for someone to come, something that can take days… we left them, a bit happier than they were, and continued on our way.
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In Uezo (name of the river), a small village on the main road we have met the nice couple that lives in the first house of the village, located right on the main road.
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Valentine Pedro Sabastiao and his wife, Lucia Paulo “kimwokoko”, Kimwokoko means in the local language "to catch something hard", or the ability to do so.
They gave us a warm welcome, and also permission to take their photos.
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Their house is simple, with an outdoor kitchen.
There is the food for the chickens and, of course, the house where they sleep.
All their kids already left the house, so now they live by themselves, earning their living by selling what they grow and sometimes they sell cigarettes that their kids bring from Luanda.
Unfortunately, most of the people we asked in the places we visited could not provide explanations for the names of the villages, their history etc., or they simply didn’t want to tell us. Either way, we did not manage to collect a lot of history and facts from the journey.
We got to N’zeto and after we passed the administrator's building, we took a left turn and arrived straight to the beach and to the only central spot in N’zeto, where you can have a beer and buy fresh fish from the ocean.
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A few Angolans I spoke to told me that the people in N’zeto are fishermen, and probably the former employees of the Portuguese people back in the colonial time, when it was a hot vacation spot.
I hope they had a good mosquito repellent back then.
Most of the people in N’zeto speak the local dialect called Kikongo, as this place is part of the Zaire province, some of whom speak Dinguela, a local Congolese dialect, since a lot of Congolese people came to Angola over the years.
His son will probably follow his footsteps, and will inherit his place as the artist in the family.
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N’zeto city is very relaxed at all times. You can enjoy the sunsets, the beautiful baobab trees and the nice people.
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The guys there complained that there are not enough girls in the city, but it does not look so. Well, since Angola is now registering her people, legally, one of these days someone will probably register that too.
If you are an art lover you can also find the local sculpture, unfortunately for us the artist was not in his house, though his family gave us a warm welcome and we promised we will send our friend to buy sculptures.
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The next goal is
Uige-Ngage
