Algeria to Ghana (and back) - am I mad?
This is the short version!
I'm investigating the feasibility of a return overland trip to Ghana towards the end of the next dry season (Jan/Feb 2006). There will be 3/4 people in the party travelling in a 110Tdi CSW. The direct route would seem to be Algeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana - but I'm getting differing advice about Algeria and Mali (the FO website is useless and more concerned with covering its own rear - Chris Scott's seems to be a lot better). Would a route via (say) Libya and Niger be more appropriate etc...?
Clearly we would want to join up with a convoy for the Sahara stretch - if not further - but on a more basic level would the advice from more experienced Sahara travellers be to continue planning or forget it and have my midlife crisis elsewhere?
Yes, I already have Chris Scott's book which I am devouring in chunks, but I don't want to spend too much time and money planning something that ain't going to happen.
Any advice?
Andrew
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