Hello and welcome to number 113! Frank Paradis returns for another bumper episode this week and we are talking about his three-month trip hitchhiking across the Congo River Basin in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Frank's plan was to enter overland from Angola and make it across to Uganda via the DRC jungle in the southwest to the northeast. Frank wanted to avoid planes and see as much on the ground as possible and trust me, this episode has some epic stories.

Frank talks us through some of his highs and lows such as running into rebels with machine guns, contracting Malaria with an almost devastating outcome, the amazing Congolese people who really helped him on his way, seeing the Bonobos in the wild whilst 'volunteering', having to wade through the jungle water in barefoot and so many more! There is a reason this episode is nearly three hours long. A truly unique story and one which will inspire some wanderlust in you.

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