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Select a tour from the list....... Serengeti & Ngorongoro : 5 days Masai Mara & Lake Naivasha : 6 days Gorillas : 6 - 9 days Joburg to VF with Okavango Delta : 1 week Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru and Naivasha : 8 days Gameparks to Beaches : 10 days Nairobi to Zanzibar : 10 days Cape Town to Victoria Falls : 12 days Nairobi to Dar es Salaam : 2 weeks Kenya - Tanzania : 2 weeks Dar es Salaam to Vic Falls : 2 weeks Namibia - VF to Cape : 3 Weeks Gorillas : 15 days Gameparks & Gorillas : 3 weeks Nairobi to Livingstone, Vic Falls : 3 weeks Nairobi to Victoria Falls : 25 Days Nairobi to Zanzibar/Dar es Salaam : 4 weeks Vic Falls to Joburg via Cape Town : 4 weeks Lilongwe, Malawi to Cape Town : 31 days Kenyan gameparks to Vic Falls : 32 days Southern Africa : 5 weeks Dar es Salaam to Cape Town: 39 days Nairobi to Johannesburg : 6 weeks Gorillas to Victoria Falls : 46 days Southern Africa & Namibia : Nairobi to Cape : 7 weeks Nairobi to Johannesburg via Cape Town : 54 days Kenyan gameparks to Cape Town : 8 weeks Africa in Depth : Gorillas to Joburg :8 weeks Kampala to Cape Town : 60 days Africa all the Way : Gorillas to Cape Town : 10 weeks The Great African Trail :Gorillas, Cape Town, Joburg : 11 weeks Zanzibar to Nairobi : 10 days Victoria Falls to Dar es Salaam : 13 days Victoria Falls to Nairobi : 3 weeks Johannesburg to Dar es Salaam : 3 weeks Johannesburg to Nairobi : 4 weeks Dar es Salaam to Nairobi with Gorillas : 4 weeks Cape Town to Dar es Salaam : 4 weeks Cape Town to Nairobi : 33 days Cape Town to Gorillas : 48 days Johannesburg north to Gorillas : 7 weeks Cape Town, Gameparks & Gorillas : 54 days Joburg to VF with Okavango Delta : 1 week Cape Town to Victoria Falls : 12 days Victoria Falls to Cape Town : 3 Weeks Vic Falls to Joburg via Cape Town : 4 weeks London to Accra : 10 weeks Ghana to Cape Town : 12 weeks London to Cameroon : 13 weeks London to Cape Town : 22 weeks London to Nairobi : 30 weeks The Ultimate Trans Africa : 43 weeks Nairobi to Cairo : 8 weeks Cairo to Nairobi : 9 weeks Gorillas to Cairo : 12 weeks Nairobi to Istanbul : 12 weeks Istanbul to Nairobi - ANZAC DAY: 13 weeks Gorillas to Istanbul : 16 weeks Cape Town to Cairo : 16 weeks Cape Town to Istanbul : 20 weeks Cairo to Cape Town : 19 weeks Istanbul/Cairo to Cape Town - ANZAC DAY: 23.4 weeks Istanbul to Cairo & reverse : 4 weeks Middle East Trail : 6 weeks Charters and vehicle hire

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The Route

London to Istanbul

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
Week 31: Week layover in Nairobi, Kenya
Week 32: Kenya
Week 33 - 35: Ethiopia
Week 36 - 37: Sudan
Week 38 - 39: Egypt
Week 40 - 41: Jordan, Syria
Week 42 - 43: Syria, Turkey

The Ultimate Trans Africa : 43 Weeks

Trip Details

An amazing chance for you to travel from London in Africa in 43 weeks, down the entire west coast then back up thru eastern Africa and into the Middle East, ending in Istanbul.

Where we go

The Trans Africa is the longest expedition we run. On this safari you will experience an unusual range of African culture, geography and climate. We cover 42,000 kilometres of the continent by road, starting in Europe to the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa. The trip then continues to Nairobi, Cairo and Istanbul.

43 Weeks, + 29 countries

London to Istanbul

Total Tour Cost: GBP 3,500
Plus Local Payment: GBP 1,720 (What's this?)

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

What's Included with the Ultimate 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, Ethiopia Sudan and Egypt, Lake Naivasha, Mount Kenya, Samburu National Park, Northern Frontier District in Kenya, Lake Nasser Ferry, ferry across the Red Sea, Damascus, Aleppo, Cappadocia Region of Turkey, Turkish Coast Gallipoli, Istanbul.

Highlights

Gibraltar, Riff Mountains, Sahara Desert, Niger River, West African Coast, the Sahel, River Nile, Mountain Gorillas, Mountains of Ethiopia, ancient monuments, Egypt and Turkey.

Extras

Visas from £ 550, personal Insurance, flights, restaurant meals, optional side trips, flights is case an unforeseen border closure or blocked route due to politics, in this case we will collect you at a chosen place to continue our trip see pre-departure info.

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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.