Angola is a giant jigsaw puzzle of different landscapes, cultures, and colors. From mountains to vast open plains, wide  white beaches to thick tropical rainforest, Angola offers the visitor a distinct experience in each of its eighteen provinces. Narrow coastal plains rise abruptly to vast interior plateaus creating a dramatic landscape with plunging waterfalls, awe-inspiring rock formations, and deep gorge, desert and roaring rivers.

Welwitschia mirabilis is a genus of a succulent plant that can only be found in desert south to Angola. This specie was named after being discovered by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch, who contributed to the knowledge of this and of many other plants of Angola. This is a creeping plant, formed by a fixed ligneous stem, a huge taproot and two small leaves that continuously grow during the plant’s cycle of life. It is estimated that this plant can reach to 1.000 years.

Boaboa is a wide-bodied tree that can live up to 6000 years. Native from the Angolan forest of Mayombe, this tree can reach 30 m high and is capable to store in its giant trunk up to 120 litres of water. For this reason, it is also called “bottle tree”. According with an old African tale, for example, once a dead person is buried inside a Boaboa plant, his soul will live as long the plant exists. It takes just one night for Adansonia digitata to flourish, between May and August.