Rough Road south of Caiundo | Warning

August 8th, 2024 by Toby2101

We drove from North to South with a 7.5to Unimog.
Took us 10h for the wohle way plus 2,5h from Menongue to this point here.
It is not so difficult in dry saison, it just took time, avarage speed for us was 25km/h.
The road is like described before, the middle Part is the hardest one.

August 7th, 2024 by missingoption69

We drove this in our hopelessly overloaded little old Kia Sportage and got stuck a few times. We knew about the deep sand but the big rocks lurking in the 'middel mannetjie' were indeed an unpleasant surprise. The Northern half is much trickier than the Southern half.
It took us 2 days x 6 hours from Caiundo to Katwitwi border.

July 10th, 2024 by fettekuh1880

We did it from Katwitwi > Caiundo
As described: first 50km and last 15km ok to good gravel road
Took us 6hours (average speed 42 km/h)

May 23rd, 2024 by confusedcry16

on a bicycle this road took me three rough days. the first 80km are sandy and then it gets a little bit less difficult. it was physically very very hard, but what an amazing landscape. Ive invited myself twice to sleep in a village and washed in the river. the people are so incredibly friendly here. It was an amazing experience.

May 5th, 2024 by LandCruiser

It took us 8 hours of driving, to get from Katwitwi to Caiundo. Don't consider it to be a road, but rather a track... The first 50 km was ok, but after that it gets crazy...

July 12th, 2023 by kinny

Road in the beginning going south did not seem to bad. Did get worse the more south we went. Luckily not to many sharp stones, just gravel and patches of sand and large dips. Average speed was 30km ph. We did tow a Off road caravan.

August 30th, 2022 by mcagol

set off from menogue at 6am arrived border post 1345. Angolan border took 90 minutes to get out so would recommend leaving early. road not too bad just slow going. heard its going to be tarred but no date.

July 21st, 2022 by henriettethiim

I can confirm the other posts. From Caiundo going south the road is incredibly bad for about 100 km. I did it on a motorcycle and was struggling a lot in the sand. Took me 10 hours from Menongue to Katwitwi. No petrol available after Menongue. Small villages. Some sell sweet potatoes and oranges, but otherwise not really anything. People are incredibly kind and friendly and I wouldn't think twice about staying overnight on the road or asking in a village.
The last 50 kms before Katwitwi the road improves but gets bumpy. I did it in July during dry season. Respect for those who did it in the wet season!!! Would be impossible for me!

March 26th, 2022 by instagram.com/daniel.lahti

Drove this road from Caiundo to the border. It is still wet season and the road is really really bad at parts, but especially the first 60km coming from the north. It is still doable though. First half took us 4,5 hours and then we took the second half the next morning. That took us just over 3 hours.

April 2nd, 2019 by Clancy Abroad

The road deteriorates badly south of Caiundo. There was an attempt to rebuild the road in 2013, but the road works have been abandoned for many years. It took us one and a half days to cover 225km south of Caiundo to the border crossing at Katwitwi. No fuel south of Menongue. We did the road in the wet season and it was passable, however there are some sections of the road are so eroded that a bad flood could close the road. There are very few vehicles on the road. There are villages, but almost no shops or services.