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If you make it to Kinshasa before July, then u have a place to stay. Just send me an email when you know.
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If you make it to Kinshasa before July, then u have a place to stay. Just send me an email when you know.
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Hi Claudio,

If all goes as planned (which, of course, it seldom does) I'll be in Kinshasa beginning of June. I'll send you an email!

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West or East coast route?
Zedsdead,

I was heartened by your message. I'm struggling with the same question, both routes have their attractions. Mulling it over I think I'm going to go down the western route - but I won't make a final decision until after the HUBB meeting here in Australia which happens in a months time. Hopefully I'll be able to get some good solid advice there.

Good luck with your planning - and maybe see you on the road. I plan to leave the UK in the early part of next year so maybe slightly ahead of you.
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Thats a good question - where to start. We did the west route, because it looks like the bigger "adventure" in a much less touristic environment.

Often there are no Restaurants, no Hotels, no Lodges or Campsites arround. You can drive routes where the locals dont have seen tourists over years. You can find spots who are more naturalness.

The eastroute is more common, more tourism, more explored and provide on the other hand more infrastructure.

I guess my english skills arent good enough to talk/write deeper about

Currently some travellers avoid the west route because of security issues. But there are some travellers - like described much less than on the east route.

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Thank you everyone.
I am still looking and reading blogs, still none the wiser!

I was originally looking at the western route, but have recently been swayed the other way. My reasoning being, less borders so maybe less hassle to cross, easier route due to tourism and better infrastructure, and Kilimanjaro with all its trappings.

Navalarchitect, I would be interested to here what information get from the meet. Ahh decisions, always the start of something. My aim is to have the route and all its home work done be december.
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Hi,

We've been travelling the East coast with our car.
Not sure if you gonna travel by car?
But if you go with the car, you come in places were also aren't a lot of tourists. We've been in Sudan and Ethiopia in places where there isn't tourism at all. As you go to Kenya you get to see more tourists.
It all depends witch places you go, I think that you can find in every country a place where there aren't many tourists.

As they say, if you go the west coast, you don't see a lot of tourist (might be none), no restaurants, no hotels,...

In the east you can have both, depending on what you want

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Watching this post with interest.

We plan to travel around Europe from mid next year and then head South to Cape Town when it starts getting cooler.

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