Exchanging $, Cape Town - Nairobi

[Wheelie]

We will be travelling from Cape Town to Nairobi (South-Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya). As we will be going as fast as we possibly can, we will not have a lot of time enroute to exchange our cash into local currencies. We will be riding every day, an average of 300 km a day, hence if exchange opportunities doesn't fall right into our lap, we will have a problem.

Our question are as follows:

• What is the prefferred currency, US Dollars or Euros?
• How easy is it to exhange money en route?
• Any particular places where exchanging money will be easy or difficult? To what degree and with what implications?
• Is it easy to exchange money at borders?
• Should we obtain local currency for the country we are entering before entering or after? Why? How important is this?
• Will it be difficult to sell local currencies when leaving a country?
• Will local currencies be easy to sell at an ok rate in a neighbouring country, or should they be sold before leaving? In short, which side of the border should we buy or sell our local currencies (preferably in the same place).
• Can we pay for stuff using US Dollars or Euros? What items? How lucrative/unlucrative is this?
• How much cash for our estimated expenditures for one country should be bought at once. All of it? 50% of it? Enough for three days? Etc?
• Other reccomendations and consciderations.

Any comments are appreciated, but please bare in mind that we will be travelling fast, hence we will not have a lot of time to spend on searching out monay changers, waiting in lines, waiting for money changers to open, etc.

Thanks to all of you who have been so kind to aid me so far (too many to name), and thanks again for this aditional piece of support.