Following the coastal road south of the capital for 170 kilometres, you will encounter three of the country’s greatest natural attractions, including moonscapes, giraffe sightings and pristine beaches.
The first site you reach on leaving Luanda is the iconographic Miradouro da Lua (”Moon Viewpoint”), a set of cliffs eroded by wind and rain, creating a particularly striking ochre lunar landscape.
Heading further south, one arrives at Kissama National Park, a protected area since 1938, covering 9,600 square kilometres, and offering a great variety of plants and animals, thanks to the reintroduction in recent decades of fauna (animals transported by plane from Botswana and South Africa in 2001-2002, during Operation Noah’s Ark), which had been decimated by poaching during the long civil war. Today, the savannah dotted with large baobab trees is home to giraffes, zebras, elephants, ostriches and various species of antelopes.
Finally, the Cabo Ledo bay, in the Bengo province, is undoubtedly the most beautiful beach in Angola, animated at weekends by the inhabitants of the capital and surfers (it is not by chance that it is called Praia dos surfistas).
