Trans Africa - London to Nairobi

30 weeks from GBP £3,200 plus local payment GBP £1,500 (What’s this?)

Week 1 - 4: Europe, 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

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 on this London to Nairobi Trans Africa Tour?
On this African expedition from London to Nairobi we will travel down the entire west coast of Africa to Cape Town and from there we will travel up to East Africa to Kenya. The countries we’ll visit on the way are Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Cabinda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.

Along the way from London to Nairobi we’ll visit Casablanca and 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, Etosha National Park, Cheetah Park, Cape Cross Seal Colony, Sossusvlei, Fish River Canyon, Victoria Falls, Lake Malawi, Mikumi National Park, Lake Baringo, Nile River in Uganda and Lake Naivasha.

London to Nairobi Highlights
Gibraltar, Riff Mountains, Sahara Desert, Niger River, West African Coast, the Sahel, River Nile, Mountain Gorillas

The important bit
Our African expeditions are different from our other departures 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 Nairobi 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 Nairobi 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 Nairobi 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.