Belgium to West Africa for 3 months oct 2006
 

hello all the bikers of the world !

if anybody is interested to join us ...
My wife (GS 650) and myself (GS 1200 adv **) are planning a 3 months round trip in West Africa (Morokko, Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, Niger, Burkina, Togo, Benin and Ghana) departing mid october 2006 from Brussel.
As we went already different
times in Morokko (99, O1, 02, 03) we will just stop there to visit friends.
Our return is planned end december 06 or januari 07, shipping the bikes back from Dakar or any other west african harbour/airport. I would not like to drive Spain/France in middle of winter ... after such a sunny ride ! (lol)
We are no "remote desert drivers",just like discovering people and countries. Were needed we drive "unpaved".
We have both living experience in Africa (North and middle) and have travelled by bike all EU/US/Taiwan/North Afrika. We speak both fluent french (motherlanguage)and Francoise some arabic.

So, why not join !

We are also keen to receive by mail (noric@skynet.be) any travel and route advise.

Thank you !!

** yee ! I just ordered a new GS 1200 adventure to replace my beloved GS 100 ... which with 140.000 km mostly overloaded ... merit retirement (no, I will not sell it )


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Hi guys,

I will be heading in the same direction as you guys from the UK to South Africa via west africa. At this stage I am planning to leave around August and get to Morocco at the end of summer to avoid the top summer temperatures. I will be on my own and riding an Africa Twin so would like to keep in touch incase we meet up somewhere out there.
Take care



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We are also heading to west Africa and further to south Africa. We will be driving in our Landy 110 leaving Holland in sept '06,
I'll be posting in the 4x4 forum.

Ian

hi boths

we cannot leave before 15 october as Françoise is still working until that date. She's a nurse and midwife teacher in Namur,Belgium, and can only leave after the second examn session. But nevertheless ou will prpablay spent some time in Morokko , will you ? We will take the boat from Sete to Nador, and just travel quickly trough M as we were already 4 times there.
or mail is
noric@skynet.be
Norbert and Françoise

would also be interested in any GPS chartplotting experience (electronic mapping) for Afrika (garmin only has the basic map which is useless ...)