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Quote was from James Cargo Martin - drop me a pm with your email address and I'll send on my email exchanges with them if it would be helpful. They suggested i get in touch again 6 weeks before my 'shipping' date.

I don't have an Egypt contact hence using these guys to sort.

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I did the east route with two friends in 2014.

Starting from Frankfurt/Germany our course took us through Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece to Istanbul/Turkey. After an air transfer to Sudan we crossed Ethiopia and Kenia all the way down to the border to Tanzania. We didn’t enter Tanzania yet but took a detour back north circling the Lake Victoria via Uganda and Rwanda. From Rwanda we continued south again through Tanzania to Malawi. From there we headed south west crossing Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia before we finally arrived in South Africa where we reached our final goal Cape Town and the Cape of Good Hope.

You Can find a detailed route and infos on our blog.

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Yes I am. Currently just left Murchison Falls NP in Uganda and heading generally in Kampala direction before going into Kenya. Hope to cross to Ethiopia around about 20th Feb (assuming the Ethiopian embassy in Australia issue the visa in a next couple of days and then DHL get the passport safely back to me)

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Done half of Africa and planning the other half now

I've done the southern half of Africa in 2013, the route was like this:

south africa -> lesotho -> south africa -> swaziland -> mozambique -> malawi -> tanzania -> kenya -> tanzania -> zambia -> zimbabwe -> botswana -> namibia -> south africa

Now I'm planning to do another trip in 2017, I'd like to go down from Dublin (Ireland) to Capetown along the West Coast in the first half of '17. I know this is still quite far off, and politics can change until then, but what would you guys think what's currently the safest path from Morocco down to Ivory Coast? So far I was thinking to go along the coast down to St Louis (Senegal), then East to Bamako (Mali), and then South to Ivory Coast. That way I'd be skipping Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia which seem rather high risk, and I could also avoid northern Mali which seems very high risk right now.

What do you guys think about that plan?
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Africa

We came down the East side from Egypt to South Africa & now in Namibia heading up the West side !!!


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yup two up on an africa twin, west cost 2009-2010. pretty much same route as far ride.!
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Anyone in Morocco fancy a ride?

Hey people!
Am currently in Fez, about to head into the Atlas mountains. Anyone around this way and fancy joining up for a bit?
Email me, andoni10@hotmail.co.uk.

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