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africa west coast
Hi all wanted to the east coast early next year but with the situation at the moment it seams a pain,with the added cost of getting around egypt and also the cost or sending tyhe bike home I was wonderind about doing a bit of a loop on the west coast , if anyone has any ideas on how far I could get in this time scale at this time of year thanks Dave
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Please use the forum search function to find many threads about the west coast.

There are severall people on their way or had driven the west route recently.

Here i try to collect all blogwriting travellers on the west route from 2012 upwards: Directlink: Trans-Africa: Gerade Unterwegs...

We did also the westroute. We was on the way at November 2012 - January 2013, and wrote a daily diary under the same Adress @ http://transafrica2012.blogspot.com Maybe that will help you to answer your questions too.

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I have the same problem. Heading off at the end of the year riding Cape Town to London, originally London to Cape Town. East side you have Egypt giving you S### and on the west Angola and their shoddy visa situation. As I have only 3.5-4 months to complete my trip Im not prepared to risk getting caught up waiting for an Angola visa. At present I will ride from Cape Town to Nairobi or Addis Ababa and then fly my and my bike to Accra (Ghana) and ride the west coast up to Europe.
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Many now choose to ship from Port Sudan to Jeddah, cross Saudi Arabia to the Emirates, ship to Bandar Abbas, cross Iran into Turkey...

Getting the Visa seems to be a challenge, but apparently doable...
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I did a loop in 2011 to the coast of Ghana and back to Belgium and spent 4 months on the road, including 1 month in Morocco. I think to be comfortable you will need at least 3 months, it's 7000 km to Bamako, Mali (from Belgium), so when you do some driving around and drive back you will easily cover 20000 km. That's an average of over 220 km a day, which is doable but may be rushing it. I myself am going back there this year with my van (to Sierra Leone), but I'm planning for 5 to 6 months.
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I would realy recommend West Africa, it's much more interesting than the East coast in my opinion, and a lot less spoiled by tourism.
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I am having the same dilema, I want to go down the east side.

It seems no matter what, with the way the world is there is a problem somewhere. I will be followwing the thread with interest.
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I am having the same dilema, I want to go down the east side.

It seems no matter what, with the way the world is there is a problem somewhere. I will be followwing the thread with interest.
Mostly it looks harder than it is.

If you start going deeper, to talk and write with embassys, to watch the progress of other travellers (in detail) and reading their blogs and so on - you will see that you will find a solution. No matter if east or west coast route

While you slowly got worried here - are other traveller on exact these route.

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