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london to cape town from feb 2014
Hi guys,I am new to the site and need some advice.
I want to ride down from LONDON to Cape Town in February along the West Coast of Africa.
What route would you recommend, and countries + not staying on paved roads where possible. What paper work and visa's. Any info what so ever would be great.
Thinking of travelling for about 3 month's.
Thank you.
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We did the same in two months. You should find some useful informations and a daily diary here:

Trans-Africa

I try there too to collect all links to blogging people on the westroute who start from 2012 upwards.

I suggests to optain as many Visas as possible in your homecountry, to be able to use the limited time for travelling, and not for paper work.

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hi,
Me an my mate are planning a trip from liverpool to capetown down through east coast. where planning on leaving in jan 2015. I know this is too late for you but im sure we could swap research notes.
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Driving to SA
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Hi guys,I am new to the site and need some advice.
I want to ride down from LONDON to Cape Town in February along the West Coast of Africa.
What route would you recommend, and countries + not staying on paved roads where possible. What paper work and visa's. Any info what so ever would be great.
Thinking of travelling for about 3 month's.
Thank you.
I will be driving from Norway about june 2014, should be entering morocco about sept-oct and driving the west coast
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Traveling to SA going west coast
Some info, there ar a lot of west african embassys in Madrid, also in Rabat Morocco,
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Driving from the Netherlands to South Africa starting in august 2014 (arnhem2capetown.reismee.nl). Is the westroute (logistically) possible in two months Surfy???
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If you had any change to spent more time there - do it! The costs of a 2 months or 6 month trip are near the same, when you cook yourself and usually doing wildcamping. And you can see more :-)

But it is possible look at my blog we did a daily diary - also just had 2 months - you will get a feeling for. Better doing it in 2 months than never ;-)

In Namibia we decide to do an 4500km extra look to Botswana - because we still have time.

Issac - also here at Hubb, did a africa roundtrip by bike in 2.5 Monaten and 42.000 Kilometers...

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Thanks Surfy! We have four and a half months for our trip.. I always believed that the route through western Africa would take a lot longer because of all the visa's. But it's good to know there is an alternative to the eastern route.
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Thanks Surfy! We have four and a half months for our trip.. I always believed that the route through western Africa would take a lot longer because of all the visa's. But it's good to know there is an alternative to the eastern route.
We optain any Visa before we start in our homecountry - we could spent the whole two month in africa without any paperwork


This works only when you have a short timeframe, because some visas are just valid for 2 months...

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Hi JC,

We're planning about the same trip (albeit not as far as Cape Town) leaving at the same time in a 4x4. We're a little delayed by life, paperwork etc but should be leaving the UK around the same time as you.

We're allowing around 3 weeks to get down as far as Senegal (and then returning later to carry on)

Be interesting to keep in touch with plans etc.

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