Public Transport

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Public transport in Kinshasa consists of anything with a motor and four wheels. Taxis are shared, so forget about entering a taxi and being delivered to your desired address. At first glance the system seems chaotic, yet it meshes together to form a network capable of moving the masses from one end of the city to another. A series of hand signals are used by drivers to communicate their intended direction and any tree along the roadside constitutes a stop. No trip to the Congo is complete without squeezing into one of these bone-shaking rust buckets and trundling along with the masses (just make sure you are not in a rush.)

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