Route
Luanda to Benguela
Driveable in a long day, and the coastal road is genuinely part of the trip. Flying into Catumbela makes sense if your time is short.
What the journey is like
The road runs largely along the coast. Lobito lies half an hour beyond Benguela, so most people treat the two as one stop.
The driving time is a band calculated at 50 to 70 km/h on an indicative distance of 540 km. It does not include stops, fuel, roadworks or delays leaving Luanda, so treat the upper end as the realistic figure on a first trip.
The two ends of this route
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