Riding Waves

Miradouro da Lua is a set of cliffs 40 km south of Luanda, in the municipality of Belas, in Angola.

Over time, erosion caused by wind and rain created the lunar-like landscape that we find today. Miradouro da Lua is a must-see tourist spot for anyone heading from Luanda to Barra do Cuanza or the beaches of Cabo Ledo.

This was the setting for the film "O Miradouro da Lua" by Portuguese director Jorge António, the first Portuguese-Angolan film co-production, shot in 1993 and which received the special Achievement award at the Gramado Festival, Brazil. The feature film, of the fiction genre, has the participation of Angolan and Portuguese actors and technicians. It tells the story of a young man from Lisbon who comes to Angola looking for the father he doesn't know, and who at the end of the film, in the grand setting of Miradouro da Lua, decides to stay in Angola.

The video was recorded with DJI Air3s Drone.