crossing africa
 

We are planning a trip from England to South Africa. We are planning on leaving the USA on July 1st for London and there we hope to purchase a vehicle (Landcruiser or Rover) and outfit it. If anyone can offer any help on this, please do, as we need it. We are not sure how much time we will need in London to do all of the necessary work purchasing, repairing and outfitting the truck, plus getting all the necessary documents. If you have done this and can give us an approximate time allowance, that will make our planning easier. One thought crossed our mind today which is, how possible might it be to buy the vehicle here in the states and ship it to England. Do you know anyone who has done this or, do you know how difficult the restrictions are?
We especially need info on how to get safely across from West Africa to East Africa. Do you know anyone who is currently doing this? thanks for your time

hi chaps my name is freddy i have just crossed from nigeria to ethiopia via chad sudan on my bike the road is very bad loads of sand as for safety i don,t think you will have any problems if you are aware of whats happening around you and your paper work is in order (e.g visas< carne) we camped the whole way as staying in the towns we got mobbed by literally hundreds of people ( it was the first time i have been that popular if you email me a contact address i will send you some english 4x4 mags that have people that prepare vechiles for your type of journey , if you have any more questions that you think that i will be able to help you with (and any body else) then do not hesitate to mail me all the best freddo email: in link above
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[This message has been edited by Grant Johnson (edited 04 June 2002).]

i am currently in cameroon, travelling via gabon, congo and angola to namibia. you might check my homepage for information on my 'cyber cycle diary', or on my 'travel info' page.

other useful websites:
info seiten

http://www.sahara-overland.com
http://www.afrika-overland.net

the following ones are in german:

http://www.zebrastreifen.com
http://www.possi.de
http://www.berndtesch.de

(for freddy: cheers mate good to hear you made it safely!)


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online diary and travel info from the road in africa:

www.contrast.cx/diary
www.contrast.cx/travel