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Our proposed route is briefly discussed in
country-order by activating each of the the links on the left.
(please note that quite a few countries have not been added -
it is cururently been done by our webmasters.)
Our
actual route might vary from what we intend, so please see our
main menu "Route
Progress" in order to know where we are and what we are up
to.
The security situation in the DRC (Democratic
Republic of Congo), Angola and the CAR (Central African
Republic) forced us to travel along the Eastern side of
Africa.
The route through North Africa will depend on
our assessment of the security risks of crossing through the
Sahara Region – our planned route is based on information
available at present.
We have travelled extensively in
Southern Africa (Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and
Southern Zambia); therefore we decided to drive straight to
Northern Zambia and to head for the unknown.
We managed
to obtain most of our visas in Pretoria before leaving South
Africa. However, we were not able to obtain visas for
Ethiopia, Chad, Niger and Benin. It was possible to arrange
for the visas that we could obtain from the various Embassies
in Pretoria, South Africa to be valid for the time when we
envisage to visit the respective countries, with the exception
of Libya and Egypt. We plan to extend the visas for Libya and
Egypt along the route. We plan to obtain the visas for
Ethiopia in Nairobi (Kenya), and the visas for Chad and Niger
in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia).
We were very glad when
friends with a similar vehicle, James & Heleen Moulder,
decided to accompany us on the first part of our trip. They
plan to go along as far as Ethiopia – we hope that they will
continue further.
After a delay we finally managed to
leave Pretoria on the afternoon of 2 June 2004.
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