Thanks a lot!!
every info is precious!

I had some issue with the preparation of the bike... so i am running behind my schedule!
But i think i can leave in January if everything works out well!

For the above reasons i have not looked deeply into routes... i will take time doing so from now on!

i will check everything you and the others wrote and i will reply asap!

Check out the sub saharan Africa forum. Wanted has posted a good thread there. I'm in Bissau now, but I'm only doing as far as Benin

Sierra Leone visa was quick n easy in Dakar. But expensive

Also. If you haven't already. Check out ioverlander. Embassies get posted there with recent experiences

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Hi Jacopo_92,
As I am planning quite the same trip as yours but by bicycle, I'm very interesting in your visas' newest prospecting. This is what I collected from here and different threads (this forum and others). Did you make the same statement through your searching? (I'm french)

- Morocco: none, 90 days allowed
- Western Sahara: none, 90 days allowed
- Mauritania: Rabat 93€ (some say 55€, others 45€ !) 30 days allowed, delivered same day
- Senegal: none, 90 days allowed
- Mali: Nouakchott 15€ or Kidira (Senegal) at the frontier.
- Burkina-Faso: Rabat 71€ or Bamako
- Ivory Coast: Dakar 45€/100€ (?) 90 days allowed, delivered same day
- Ghana: Rabat 50€ or Noé (Ivory Coast) or Monrovia (Liberia) 1 month allowed within 3 months, delivered after 2 days
- Togo: Southern border or Accra (Ghana) 16€, 7 days available !
- Benin: Accra (Ghana) 76€ or Ouagadougou, 15 days/1 month allowed depending sources, multiple entries, delivered same day
- Nigeria: Bamako 50€ or Cotonou (Benin) 55€, 3 months allowed, multiple, delivered same day
- Cameroon: Calabar 68€ or Lagos or Abuja, 2 months allowed, simple entry, delivered same day
- Gabon: Lomé (Togo) 75€ ou Yaoundé 105€, 1 month allowed, delivered same day
- Congo-Brazzaville: Lomé (Togo) 90€ or Yaoundé (Cameroon), or Franceville 45€, 45 days allowed, delivered same day
- DRC: Cotonou (Benin) 22€ or Brazzaville (35.000CFA) or Yaoundé (100.000CFA !!!)
- Angola: Accra (Ghana) or Pointe-Noire (Congo-Brazza) 78€, 30 days allowed, 1 week waiting , multiple
- Namibia: Free, 90 days allowed
- SAR: Free, 90 days allowed

I don't know in which countries invitation letters are necessary plus visa ? (these are hotel bookings which can be canceled after printing, isn't it ?). And finally, is there any country which demand the visa of your destination country (like Nigeria I guess ?) ?

Hello Jacopo, this is Maurizio from Rome

I too am planning a similar trip, but I have decided it is a safer route to stay east all the time.

https://www.google.it/maps/dir/Aless...33.9248685!3e0

There are plenty of trip reports on this route in all languages, and the fact that many of the Nations visited were, at any one time, either British or Italian Colonies means there is a lower risk of being victim of organized crime than in the former French Colonies.

In fact, the only one stretch where you might have problems is Moyale-Marsabit, 250 km where vehicles travel in convoy as protection against Somali bandits.
https://www.google.it/maps/dir/Moyal...d2.3354966!3e0

Else, it's all "easy-peasy" as the British say.
Two excellent trip reports are "Milano-Capetown" by Roberto Parodi Threepercenters - � 2012, Milano – Cape Town (Transafrica)
and a kindle e-Book "Trans-Africa by motorcycle - a Father's diary" by Lawrence Bransby.

On the other hand, if you INSIST on travelling the Tangiers-Dakar route, may I suggest you turn inland in Dakar on the Dakar-Ouagadugu-Niamey-Abuja-Lagos route, and decide what to do with yourself in Lagos.

Personally... I would stay as close to the ocean as possible !

https://www.google.it/maps/dir/Tange...-33.924741!3e0

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Thanks for all your replies to my topic!
i have been extremely busy and behind my schedule.
Just now i managed to find the time to write here something.
I am in Guinea Conakry, heading to Sierra Leone.
I am doing all the visas along the way.
It is just impossible to do visas before leaving.
Too complicated.

Morocco visa at arrival
Mauritania visa at the border , 55 euro
Senegal at the border, don't remember the cost.
Guinea Conakry visa in Dakar. , double entry. 3 months 70.000 cfa (1 day )
Sierra leone visa in dakar 60.000 cfa , single entry, 2 months. 1 ( day)

Now i am looking for info on sierra leone.
After sierra leone i would like to go to Ivory coast (they have an embassy in conakry... i will soon go there). I could get to ivory coast via Guinea again or via Liberia.
i know Liberia is definitely more difficult.... i will think about it

Hi Jacopo_92!

I'm planning a similar trip jan-feb 2018. Two options for me, KLR650 or bicycle ;-)

Were you able to get your Ghana visum along the way? Do you have a blog I can check?

Thx!

Hi Nemo73!
How is the trip/preparation going? Do you have a blog?
Thx!

Hi I would recomend you to take the same route I did just the other way round: http://afrikamotorrad.eu