Five wet, wild weeks in the Angolan highlands

Just after my grand arrival (dropped off by a convoy of two helicopters) at the Cuito River source lake, still excited at being at the source of one of Africa’s iconic rivers, the rain came down hard.

There is a time-tested Setswana belief that rain falling down after one arrives is a good omen.  I don’t know if this applies when arriving in foreign countries, but nevertheless, the rainy reception caught me unprepared and quickly smacked the arrival excitement off my face.