Living in Congo | How People Live in Africa's Jungle More Dangerous Than the Amazon | 4K Travel

Living in Congo | How People Live in Africa's Jungle More Dangerous Than the Amazon | 4K Travel Living in Congo means navigating a place where rainforests, copper mines, and city markets exist side by side. This travel documentary explores living in Congo through fishermen, market vendors, taxi drivers, cassava farmers, copper miners, fufu, river fish, Congolese rumba, La Sape fashion, Lingala, and faith, and the pressures of uncertain wages, food prices, power cuts, poor roads, and armed conflict in the east. For anyone drawn to travel, Congo holds the world's deepest river and Africa's second-largest rainforest, yet only one in five homes has electricity. This documentary follows the fishermen, traders, and families living between the rapids, the mines, and the markets. 00:00 Congo's Riches, Congo's Struggles 01:41 Geography of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 03:49 The Congo River: Lifeline and Barrier 06:10 Fish of the Deep Congo 07:03 Bonobos, Okapis, and Gorillas 07:58 Languages, Rumba, and La Sape 10:43 Markets, Wages, and Daily Costs 14:04 Kingdoms Before the Borders 16:08 King Leopold Takes Congo 18:32 The Peatlands Beneath the Forest 20:43 Rubber Quotas and the Force Publique 23:27 Cobalt Mines and the Future #livingincongo #lifeincongo #congotravel #traveldocumentary #travel #africatravels