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Benfica

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Benfica

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Belas Shopping

    Shopping mall in Luanda, Angola

    3.3 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Benfica

Airports
Quatro de Fevereiro (LAD), 12 km · Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto (NBJ), 39 km
  • Pointe Noire → Benfica
    483 km · quickest by air, 7h 1m · $220–330
  • Kinshasa → Benfica
    566 km · quickest by air, 5h 33m · $240–370
  • Brazzaville → Benfica
    570 km · quickest by air, 5h 18m · $230–340
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Benfica

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Benfica. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIn 2018 a new ferry started on the Luanda to Cabinda, which is useful to avoid a transit through the DR Congo.
  • Get aroundEco Tur also do 4x4 and minibus hire and airport transfers with bilingual drivers (paul@eco-tur.com) +244 912 501 387 B Home will provide airport pick ups and are available for hire (drivers) +244 222 264 423 B Home has offices in Luanda, and in the US.
  • Get aroundCongestion is a major problem with lack of public transport and the plethora of minibus taxis.

From Wikivoyage: Luanda, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    PríncipeST

    7 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,336 km
  2. 02
    SossusvleiNA

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,771 km
  3. 03
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    2,031 km
  4. 04
    South Luangwa National Park and MfuweZM

    12 ways of moving, 36 sources

    2,084 km
  5. 05
    Ssese IslandsUG

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    2,315 km

If you know how people move in Benfica – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Benfica

Benfica is 4 km from Talatona, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.