Trans Africa - UK to Kenya 32 Weeks

32 weeks from GBP £9,000 plus local payment US$3,500 (What’s this?)

ITINERARY
Week 1-4: London Gibraltar & Morocco
Week 5: Mauritania
Week 6-8: Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast
Week 9-10: Ghana
Week 11-12: Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon
Week 13-14: Cameroon
Week 15-17: Gabon, Congo, Cabinda (Angola)
Week 18: Democratic Republic of Congo
Week 19-20: Angola
Week 21-22: Namibia
Week 23: South Africa, Cape Town
Week 24: Cape Town, break
Week 25-27: Cape Town South Africa, Lesotho, Estwatini
Week 28-29: Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi
Week  30-32: Tanzania, Nairobi, Kenya

HIGHLIGHTS
Morocco – Fes, Meknes, Marrakech, Atlas Mountains, Todra Gorge. Mauritania, Desert Crossing, Ghana - Beaches, Ivory Coast, Slave Forts, Kakum Forest Reserve. Togo - Marche des Fetishes, Benin - Stilted village. Nigeria - Oshogbo & Sacred Grove. Cameroun - Mount Cameroon. Gabon - Primal Tropical Forests. Congo to Angola - Congo River crossing. Angola Christ the King statue. Namibia - Etosha National Park, Otjitotongwe Cheetah Park, Rock engravings, Skeleton Coast, Cape Cross seal colony, Swakopmund, Namib Naukluft National Park, Sossusvlei, Fish River Canyon. South Africa - Canoeing Orange River, Stellenbosch wine tour, Cape Town, Garden Route, Stony Point Penguin Colony, Cape Agulhas, Cango Calcite Caves, Ostrich farm, Addo Elephant National Park. Lesotho - Drakensburg Mountains, Royal Natal National Park. Kingdom of Eswatini – Swaziland. Botswana - Chobe Park. Zambia or Zimbabwe  - Victoria Falls, Zambezi white water rafting. Malawi - Lake Malawi, Kande Beach. Tanzania - Mikumi National Park, Dar es Salaam & Zanzibar Island, Masai Villages, Olduvai Gorge, Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater Reserve.

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’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

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