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Hi 2CanGo. I am also planning a trip from the top of Africa to the bottom -- but I'm starting in South Florida (near Miami). I've been waiting on the virus to go goodbye... I have some experience in traveling long range -- Last year I rode from Miami to Thailand and the year prior, I went from top of South America to Bottom (Ushuaia). But both trips were very safe -- and I never felt even close to a risk in the tens of thousands of Km's. But I do have some concern about the Africa trip. I am here to learn about the appropriate safe routing when starting in Morocco. I guess I'm joining in the middle of your conversations -- but I wonder if you can share the route that you think may be safe after talking to others? I'm riding either an F850GSA or a KTM 790 Adventure -- still deciding. What about you?
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When the virus issue subsides you have 2 west Africa route options
Morocco to Mauritania or Algeria to Mauritania. Algeria route is not well travelled but there have been a dozen or so tourist transits that way over the last year but pre covid. Have a look in the Sahara forum for more details
There are some very good facebook groups with more upto date info than the forums at the moment, might be worth joining those.
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re Algeria - things have improved, however personally I'd avoid Algeria.
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might want to catch up a bit with the situation pre covid in Algeria. Things have probably changed quite a bit.
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Hi 2CanGo. I am also planning a trip from the top of Africa to the bottom -- but I'm starting in South Florida (near Miami). I've been waiting on the virus to go goodbye... I have some experience in traveling long range -- Last year I rode from Miami to Thailand and the year prior, I went from top of South America to Bottom (Ushuaia). But both trips were very safe -- and I never felt even close to a risk in the tens of thousands of Km's. But I do have some concern about the Africa trip. I am here to learn about the appropriate safe routing when starting in Morocco. I guess I'm joining in the middle of your conversations -- but I wonder if you can share the route that you think may be safe after talking to others? I'm riding either an F850GSA or a KTM 790 Adventure -- still deciding. What about you?
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So the " top of Africa" would be the summit of Kilimanjaro. The "bottom" is presumably Lake Asal, Djibouti?
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