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« on: October 12, 2005, 09:19:01 »
Has anybody here travelled overland across Africa?  I'm looking for somebody whose brains I can pick...
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« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2005, 10:11:33 »
http://www.africa-overland.net/ has some good travel sites/stories - If only I had time & money.....
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« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2005, 10:22:50 »
There have also been a couple of trips there in LRO recently, I can dig them out for you if you like.
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Re: Africa overland
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2005, 13:22:11 »
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Has anybody here travelled overland across Africa?  I'm looking for somebody whose brains I can pick...


A contact of mine from Coventry was planing to do it in his Toyota 4Runner- he's in working in Zimbabwe now doing 4x4 tours. How far he got with the project I don't know (think the car got shipped there via boat in the end). Here's his website on Overland Africa. Might be worth dropping him an e-mail?

http://www.elphick-pooley.co.uk/
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« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2005, 15:24:51 »
I was toying with the idea of doing a long trip next summer.  However, for marital reasons, the 6 month expedition I'd been hoping for doesn't look very likely.  I'm really interested to know how far south I'd get in 2 months or 3 months, but I have no idea how long it takes to travel as the place is so vast!  I thought if I can find somebody who's done it already, they will have a pretty good idea.
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« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2005, 15:44:42 »
Or a loop around the Med to take in Europe, Africa, MidEast etc - UK, France, Spain, Gib, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Greece then maybe across to Italy and up through Switzerland, Germany, Belgium.  You could probably do that in 3months and always take a boat across the Med to cut out some bits for time/finance/war reasons.  Cheers.

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« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2005, 16:04:06 »
Sounds good, doesn't it?  Having already visited the Middle East a few times, I'd ideally like to go anticlockwise round Africa, but of course a circular route then becomes tricky in such a short time span.  So I could head south and then ship the 101 back and fly back when I ran out of time.  Just not sure how far that would take me!
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« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2005, 14:04:21 »
Did the Plymouth - banjul challenge last xmas in a 405... does that count??
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