- Terrible roads from the border
- Delicious food (fish, chicken, rice, casava bread, papaya).
- Stunning mountain pass through a forest and very bendy roads
- Bushmeat for sale
- Huge variety of fruit being sold at the roadside (pineapple, yams, papaya, melon)
- Roads under construction or being repaired.
- Blue and white taxi cars beeping for custom in towns/cities
- Yellow mini-bus taxis popular.
- Hardly a moped around
- Air pollution In Pointe-Noire was terrible
- Busy on-street markets which continue around the main road heading though the city.
- Bright colourful dresses and suits.