london to cape town from feb 2014
 

Hi guys,I am new to the site and need some advice.
I want to ride down from LONDON to Cape Town in February along the West Coast of Africa.
What route would you recommend, and countries + not staying on paved roads where possible. What paper work and visa's. Any info what so ever would be great.
Thinking of travelling for about 3 month's.
Thank you.

We did the same in two months. You should find some useful informations and a daily diary here:

Trans-Africa

I try there too to collect all links to blogging people on the westroute who start from 2012 upwards.

I suggests to optain as many Visas as possible in your homecountry, to be able to use the limited time for travelling, and not for paper work.

Surfy

hi,
Me an my mate are planning a trip from liverpool to capetown down through east coast. where planning on leaving in jan 2015. I know this is too late for you but im sure we could swap research notes.

Driving to SA
 

I will be driving from Norway about june 2014, should be entering morocco about sept-oct and driving the west coast

Traveling to SA going west coast
 

Some info, there ar a lot of west african embassys in Madrid, also in Rabat Morocco, :taz:

Driving from the Netherlands to South Africa starting in august 2014 (arnhem2capetown.reismee.nl). Is the westroute (logistically) possible in two months Surfy???

If you had any change to spent more time there - do it! The costs of a 2 months or 6 month trip are near the same, when you cook yourself and usually doing wildcamping. And you can see more :-)

But it is possible look at my blog we did a daily diary - also just had 2 months - you will get a feeling for. Better doing it in 2 months than never ;-)

In Namibia we decide to do an 4500km extra look to Botswana - because we still have time.

Issac - also here at Hubb, did a africa roundtrip by bike in 2.5 Monaten and 42.000 Kilometers...

Surfy

Thanks Surfy! We have four and a half months for our trip.. I always believed that the route through western Africa would take a lot longer because of all the visa's. But it's good to know there is an alternative to the eastern route.

We optain any Visa before we start in our homecountry - we could spent the whole two month in africa without any paperwork :cool4:


This works only when you have a short timeframe, because some visas are just valid for 2 months...

Surfy

Hi JC,

We're planning about the same trip (albeit not as far as Cape Town) leaving at the same time in a 4x4. We're a little delayed by life, paperwork etc but should be leaving the UK around the same time as you.

We're allowing around 3 weeks to get down as far as Senegal (and then returning later to carry on)

Be interesting to keep in touch with plans etc.

Tariq