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London to Nairobi : 30 weeks

Trip Details

An amazing chance for you to travel from London, through Africa in 30 weeks, down the entire west coast then back up thru eastern Africa to finish in Nairobi.

Where we go

On this safari you will experience an unusual range of African culture, geography and climate. We cover 31,000 kilometres of the continent by road, starting in Europe to the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa. The trip then continues to Nairobi.

30 Weeks + 23 countries

London to Nairobi

Total Tour Cost: GBP 2,750
Plus Local Payment: GBP 1,200 (What's this?)

Visiting: Spain, Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, DR Congo, Angola, Namibia & South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya & Uganda.

What's Included with the Trans Africa

Transfers from UK to the start of the trip in Spain; All transport on a fully equipped overland safari truck includes; road tolls, ferries, tents, cooking equipment, camp fees food – two meals a day on the road and occasional lunches except in town and services of the driver tour leader.

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, Chobe National Park, Victoria Falls, Lake Malawi, Mikumi Nat. Park, Lake Baringo, Nile River in Uganda, Lake Naivasha, Mount Kenya, Samburu National Park

Highlights

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

The important bit

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Our Expedition trips 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. 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 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 out side 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.

Day in the Life of an African Overland.