London to Cairo Trans Africa

39 weeks from GBP £4,000 plus local payment GBP £1,950 (What’s this?)

Week 1 - 4: Gibraltar, Morocco, Mauritania
Week 5 - 10: Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana
Week 11 - 12: Togo, Benin, Nigeria
Week 13: Cameroon
Week 14 - 17: Gabon, Republic of Congo, Cabinda (Angola)
Week 18: Democratic Republic of Congo
Week 19: Angola
Week 20 - 21: Namibia
Week 22: South Africa
Week 23: Week layover in Cape Town 
Week 24: South Africa, Botswana
Week 25: Zambia, Malawi
Week 26 - 28: Tanzania, Kenya
Week 29: Uganda
Week 30: Nairobi - Kenya
Week 31: Week layover in Nairobi, Kenya 
Week 32: Kenya
Week 33 - 35: Ethiopia
Week 36 - 37: Sudan
Week 38 - 39: Egypt

Seen Morocco? Why not join us in Marrakech three weeks after the start if you need a bit more planning time - 1st November or 1st April.

What's also included with the London to Cairo Trans Africa Expedition?
On this African expedition from London to Cairo we travel all down the west coast of Africa, visiting Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Cabinda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Namibia and South Africa. From here we travel North up the East of Africa visiting Botswana, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt.

Along the way we’ll visit Casablanca, Marrakech, Todra Gorge Royal Cities of Meknes and Fez, Volubilis Roman ruins, High Atlas Mountains, Forests of Equatorial Africa, Niger River, Ghana slave coast, voodoo markets, Niger River, Etosha National Park, Cheetah Park, Cape Cross Seal Colony, Sossusvlei, Fish River Canyon, Lake Malawi, Mikumi National Park, Lake Baringo, Nile River in Uganda, Northern Frontier District in Kenya, Lake Nasser Ferry and Cairo.

London to Cairo Highlights

This expedition from London to Cairo offers many highlights such as; Gibraltar, Riff Mountains, Sahara Desert, Niger River, West African Coast, the Sahel, River Nile, Mountain Gorillas, Mountains of Ethiopia, ancient monuments of Egypt.

The important bit
Our African expeditions to Cairo are different from our other tours to Cairo and other 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 expedition from London to Cairo 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 from London to Cairo 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 a London to Cairo expedition find it a lot of fun though of course hard at times.

Side trips / Optional extras

Departure Dates

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