Cape Town to Cairo

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What's also included on this Cape Town to Cairo Tour?

On this fantastic African expedition you will visit Victoria Falls, Lake Malawi, Mikumi Nat. Park, Lake Baringo, Nile River in Uganda, Lake Naivasha.

Cape Town to Cairo Highlights

This tour from Cape Town to Cairo offers many highlights such as; Cape of Good Hope, Okavango Delta, Victoria Falls, Lake Malawi, Zanzibar, Serengeti, River Nile, Mountain Gorillas, Mountains of Ethiopia, ancient Egypt.

The important bit

Our African expedition trips are different from our other departures and other safari holidays you may have taken – we go through areas where no tourists go, the roads can be bad, food can be limited to what we have stocked on the truck, campsites are few and basic, visas can be hard to get and communication to the outside world limited or unavailable at times. On this Cape Town to Cairo tour, we guarantee; we’ll break down, that we will have to wait some where we don’t really want to be for visas spare parts or just for someone to open a closed road and we’ll have to dig the truck out of mud and sand. The trip might overrun so finish late; the route can change due to rains, closed roads visa issues, breakdowns and politics. It’s best not to book your return flights home until you finish the trip.

To join this African expedition trip you need to be prepared to work as part of a team and to share with the others on the trip. Some of the things you’ll never forget are the satisfaction of getting a 16 ton truck unstuck, cooking over open fires after collecting the firewood, pitching a tent and getting it right even when it rains, going to sleep when its dark and waking at dawn and wanting to get out of your sleeping bag to start another day in which you have no idea of what will happen, washing in rivers, not washing and not caring that your dirty, living outside for months, seeing more than you have ever before, trying to learn French Arabic or Swahili and having people understand what you say, finding out just how far places are away from where you started and how different places can be and how unaffected out of the way places are from the world we normally live in. Most people who do an expedition find it a lot of fun though of course hard at times.

Side trips / Optional extras

Departure Dates

View all the dates for this tour on the departure dates page.