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West Africa: how many overlanders?

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I was just wondering how many people are actually taking the Western route down at the moment (or vice versa). Any calculated guesses?

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oh god thats a tough one.

so when i travelled that way i came across 1 overlanding bus, 4 motorcycles 1 4x4. so i guess if you probably triple or quadruple that you might have a rough guess of how many are getting around. maybe
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You mean all the way, through Nigeria to South Africa?

A lot of Frenchies and so forth just go to West Africa for winter etc.
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You mean all the way, through Nigeria to South Africa?

A lot of Frenchies and so forth just go to West Africa for winter etc.
Hi,

I mean overlanders who are actually on the road all the way north to south (or v.v.), not in a year but at any moment. I've heard people saying it must be "hundreds", and others thinking it's far less. Especially those taking the West Coast route. Just out of curiosity.

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There are travellers who don't blog or post online, or who do it in languages that our google searches might not flag up...

When I crossed from Cameroon to Gabon I had a drink with the Cameroonian guys, got chatting and checked their 'aliens' log book. Seemed to be about one 'group' per week - the 'group' might be a solo biker or 4 vehicles in a convoy. They said once or twice a week on average - some months only one or two because of the rains.

I'd say about 95% of travellers use that border crossing rather than going directly to Congo or through Equatorial G?

In the last few years the Angolan visa has probably reduced numbers a little. Some ship from Ghana as well...

Whatever, we are a select bunch of wonderful people ;-p
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West Africa: How many overlanders ?

Hi,

I was wondering the same thing. I am in Niamey having come from Mauritania, Mali, Burkina, Niger and I have not seen one overlander yet.

I am trying to get to Cape Town.

Any info on Angola visas recently ?
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I have just finished the west - and have collect all people (i found) who did/do the west route in 2012 (and are writing a blog) on my blog @ Trans-Africa: Gerade Unterwegs...

We meet just 2 times overlanders on the way. The SleepingCamel in Bamoko was an "overland free zone" bevore we arrive.
In the Hippocamp in Brazzaville (Congo) there was 2 cars stranded, because they have to sent their passports home in their homecountry for collecting the visas downwards.

You may find all informations you need in my blog i guess. There are not so many on the way like some years ago - but there are still overlanders (not many of them have a blog i guess)

We had an amazing trip

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When i traveled the west coast i hardly met any overlanders. Moast of them travel the east coast:

Riding the rough west coast through Africa - Transafrika part 3

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We have friends at the moment in Senegal on their way south.

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