Travel guide - Kinshasa | Petit Futé (French)

Kinshasa finally "at the one" little smart! Formerly Kin the beautiful, Kinshasa tent today, after the long years of instability, to rebuild and regain the confidence of its inhabitants, investors and tourists. Within the 10 million Kinois, 450 Congolese ethnic groups and locals from the whole continent and elsewhere, form the enormous and teeming population of this tentacular city. Many young people at precarious training slaloment between the worst and the best, between misery and prosperity, between laughter and tears. All excesses find place in a cacophony sometimes well incomprehensible to our eyes and ears. In Kinshasa, the "five projects" promised in 2007 by President Kabila, have brought some fruits, the most visible being the repair of some large arteries completely redone by the Chinese. And then we build at all, sometimes anarchically and according to aesthetic criteria that sometimes leave dreamer ... The traffic jams are permanent and add to the sound of a city that never starts completely. Outdoor cooking fumes tickles the nostrils and encourage stopping time to enjoy a Cabri skewer with a fresh primuous. Many new restaurants, bars and discotheques in the Gombe area of ​​course, but also in the cities, where the atmosphere gives all its measure. The soul of Kin is revealed to the one who can be seduced by the many facets of this city sometimes intoxicating, sometimes annoying but who leaves no one indifferent. The Kinois is in the image of his city: spontaneous, extrovert, frimeur (the Italian of Africa said), Noceur, but not a fight. Capital of music with lots of big names that confirm his reputation as a loaf and atmosphere until the end of the night and the other major African cities. Painting, Sculpture, BD, many artists continue to emerge and exhibit regularly in galleries from around the world. The city is not in the rest at the cultural level with traditional or avant - garde shows that regularly give themselves in theaters and cultural centers. And when the kinoise boiling permanent will have put Ko, follow the guide and get out of the city for a one - day getaway or two towards the Bas - Congo or Bandundu. It's magic.