The Congo River can tick a lot of impressive feats off its list: it is Africa’s most powerful river, the second most voluminous river in the world, the fifth longest, and the deepest. It even passes through the second-largest rainforest in the world. However, facts don’t do this magnificent watery giant justice and visitors will only be able to marvel at its sheer size and the surrounding impenetrable jungle, the very place that inspired Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
