Entering Africa from Europe, how?
 

Hi all,

Forgive me if this question has been asked a thousand times before, I have done some searching but nothing seems up to date and this part of the world seems so volatile.

We are in Tashkent UZ at them moment on our RTW trip starting in London and ending in South Africa. (The internet is painfully slow here making any kind of searching even more difficult.)

We plan to re-enter Europe from Central Asia via Turkey and are looking for any routes into Africa. With the idea of traveling down the East Coast.
Any routes through Lybia or Syria are now out of the question. I know that Morocco is easy to get to from Spain but making your way across to the East coast from here is not safe, particularly with the recent outbreaks of Ebola in Western Africa.

We were looking at getting a ferry from Greece to Israel and doing Jordan, Egypt and south from there. I did find info about a Greek ferry company that was running this route but it seems there is nothing happening like that anymore.

We are traveling in a 4x4 (troop carrier) and I'm paraplegic so we prefer to stay with the vehicle or minamise the time without it as it is my life line.
Short of putting it back in a container on a ship is there any other way that anyone knows of for getting into Africa from anywhere in Europe.

Thanks

Hi, we are in a similar situation at the moment in a Land Rover Defender. With everything having been planned for west coast, currently looking at the alternatives but ideally via east coast.

Looks like being an expensive situation, will let you know when I find out some more details.

Richard

@Handy Man: I suggest that you shouldnt plan africa before you arrive in europe.

The situation change rapidly - whith the ferrys between egypt and other countrys and too with the ebola situation on the west.

Better to plan it short bevore you plan to enter the east or west coast. :thumbup1:

Surfy

I would take a ferry to Tunesie (from Greece to Italy to Tunesia) and then cross Lybia into Egypt wich will require a guide.

Travel save, Tobi
http://afrikamotorrad.de/?report=en_transafrika

You can put your truck on a roro shipping line from England or Italy (and various other places around the med) to Alexandria. Not cheap but operates once a week and when I enquired last I think you could travel with it.

When are you thinking of going? (we are thinking of doing this next year at the moment)
Schedule below:
UK Sailing Schedules

The east route has severall options, here is a collection:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ij16Er0nSC...ge-borders.jpg

There are some limitations by using an 4x4 currently, because they arent allowed to enter on the way down if you use one of the sinai borders:

4x4tripping: Howto reach the eastern route of africa

The easiest way is currently to use the ferry between turkey and egypt:
4x4tripping: Ferry between Iskenderun - Port Said / eastroute 2014

Also there are currently travellers on the west route of africa who did cross severall borders in westafrica witout much hassle:

(These posts are from September (German Date Settings)

Shure there are Rumors about closed borders arround: http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...r-closed-77871

I guess if these travellers was able to cross this borders in the deeper risk area, it will be more easy outside of the center between nigeria-cameroon. But this is guessing, we just know more if some travellers rapports their crossing (or rejection).

Personally I think that we reads to often that it is not possible and read a short time later that it was possible ;-)

Personally I would start the westroute now, when I had planned it, Mauretania, Mali, Burkina, Benin and downwards. But the situation is very fluid, can change anytime...

So don`t plan to far away in the future, come to europe and decide then which way is possible and which way you like to travel more, if both options are available...

Surfy