Hi Geert
Thanks, appreciate it! Do you have a copy of the route that you took? Did you camp or stay in hotels? Did you do it as part of a group or on your own? Did you keep a travel blog?
There are so many things I don't know, I don't know where to begin!
Take care
Etienne

Etienne,
The route was the classic eastroute, was together with travelbuddy from
Istanbul and yes we did some camping, even in the Sudan.
For details like ferries/fuel/boardercrossing, send me a pm please.

Geert

Antwerp - Capetown _ March 2014
 

Hi Lukas,

I am going for the West route: Morocco, Mauretania, Senegal, Mali, Burkina, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroun, DRC, Zambia, Namibia, Cape Town

The Egypt - Sudan part, I don't really like about the Eastern route ;-)

Wr, Bart

We, my girlfriend Nikki and me, are taking the eastern route to Capetown on our Africa Twins.. We are leaving from the netherlands halfway october.


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Sam. I'm in London 27th February to 1st March if you fancy a coffee to discuss. I'm staying central and busy all day Saturday, till about 18.00, but flexible apart from that

Email me
montague.brian@gmail.com

Hey guys, sorry for my late responses (family issues). So my plan is still to start in August (2nd week) and take the classic East route. I have some contacts on the way and I really want to revisit my school where I worked a couple of years ago. So the plan for me is.
1 month for Europe
Hedding in to Africa 2 options
A. take the ferry to Tunis and go trough Libya into Egypt or
B. take a roro from turkey into Egypt. I have a contact in Egypt that might help.
and take the classic route down. For the whole trip I'm taking one year (slow I know :)) I'm looking for some (a) travel companions for the stages Tunisia-Libya and Sudan.

So if anyone wants to meet up let me know.

Koenaad.Vandenbussche@gmail.com

Hey Guys,

very interesting thread! Me and my friend are planning to take our Africa Twins from Germany down to Cape Town starting beginning of August this year as well, so there will be at least four twins pointing their front tires straight south :D

We are a bit in a time crunch since we only have roughly 3 month for the trip. So the plan is blasting down to Turkey, visiting some friends and family of my travel companion, get somehow to Africa and travel as far south taking the classical east rout as we can get. If we are not to reach SA its no big deal since our primary goal is to have a good time and not desperately trying to get to the Cape.

We want to do camping as much as possible, not only to save some money but also course we like the outdoors :)

The biggest issue right now is the question of HOW to get to Africa? The Egypt customs seam to be a major pain and waiting two weeks to get the bikes out of customs is definitely not an option...

So I'll be interested to see how you guys figure out this issues and we are happy to travel bits of the trip with some of you guys! I'll keep you posted on the progress we are making and information we can get.

Cheers,

Topher

We are taking the ferry from Genoa to Tunis and then travel through Libya to Egypt.
This way we can be in Africa in about 4 days.
We also will pass the border from Libya to Egypt with our bikes, so we can avoid the hassle of having our bikes with the egyptian customs for more days.

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Libya is definitely an interesting option, especially with their gasoline prices :) From what I am reading here in the HUBB crossing Libya seams a lot safer and easier than one would expect. How is the visa application working out nowadays?

We've decided to cross into Egypt via Israel. That's probably a lot less adventures than crossing Libya but we anyway wanted to see Israel and visit some friends there. Entering Egypt via the Taba crossing should (hopefully) be a lot easier than the entry with a ferry.

If it's working out time wise we could take the ferry from Aswam together?

Cheers,

Topher

Israeli visa
 

Hi El Topherino,
Be very careful about having an Israeli stamp in your passport, as the Sudanese will deny you a visa if they discover such. Even having an Egyptian entry stamp at a Israel land border (from memory there is only one) is grounds enough for the Sudanese to freak out.
Best of luck.

stamp issue
 

Hi Cam,

thanks for the info. I´ve heard about the israeli stamp issue with the sudanese border, but apparently you can ask the border guys in israel to simply stamp a lose piece of paper. That they might freak out about the land border stamp from the taba crossing in egypt is rather discomforting... alternatively one might be able to take the ferry from jordan to egypt, but the issue persist, they still might find the land border stamp from israel to jordan.

i guess we have to hope that the sudanese border guys are in a good mood and give them no reason to be angry with us (probably in general a good idea)...

Hi guys, I have not been on the HUBB for a while, and it is nice to see that the plans for this trip are progressing.

My employer has recently approved my request to go on leave for a year. However, they want me to start in Jan 2015 rather than August 2014. So I cannot join the expedition this year :(

If there is anybody planning the reverse trip starting in January 2015, or to go Cairo to Cape Town in Summer/Fall 2015, please get in touch.

Cheers

Sam

I'm leaving Austria on my '11 Transalp at the end of may. My initial plan is to go south, Croatia-Greece-Turkey but I'm flexible and really would like to do the Africa trip so please keep the thread updated :)

How are you planning to get your bikes back to Europe? Put them on a ship and then fly back?

Nick.

Copenhagen-Cape-Town
 

Great thread!...I am at the beginning stage of planning my trip from Copenhagen to Cape-town, hopefully leaving Copenhagen August 2015 for 3-4 months.:mchappy: Never thought that the biggest hurddle would be how to get to Egypt!...great suggesstions though, although I think I leave that one for a while as the situation might change before my departure. Hope you all will keep on posting as your planes, and trips moves along, I am a ladybiker and will be traveling solo so I want to be very well prepared especially for the first leg of the tour, so Iwill be keeping a close eye on this thread :):thumbup1:

Hi Brynia

as you can see from my earlier message, I had to change my plan and I am now looking for an August/September 2015 departure for my London to Cape Town trip. If you would like to discuss the opportunity to share the Egypt/Sudan/Ethiopia bit, and share information, feel free to get in touch

Bye now

Sam