It is all being paved!!
We recently rode from Munich to Cape Town and two of the highlights of our journey were the ride through Sudan from Wadi Halfa to Dongola and the northern Kenya section from Moyale to Isiolo. Both tough rides but in hindsight (!) fantastic experiences.
When we went through Sudan we saw evidence of the road construction:
I just read a newspaper report about elephant poaching in Kenya is getting worse again because the Chinese are building a road north to Ethiopia:
"But Chinese newcomers may be stimulating the local market for poached ivory. Close to Archer's Post, a desolate settlement of tin-roof shacks 190 miles north of Nairobi, dust rose from a shallow mine where a Chinese engineer in a wide-brimmed straw hat had just detonated high explosives.
From across the scorched floor of the valley came the distant clank of heavy machinery at the Chinese work camp, where rocks released by the explosions are broken down to gravel to build a new road running to the border with Ethiopia."
I guess soon enough we'll be able to ride a K1200LT from Munich to Cape Town...
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Ekke Kok
'84 R100RT 141,000 km (Dad's!)
'89 R100GS 250,000 km (and ready for another continent)
'07 R1200GS Adventure 100,000 km (just finished Circumnavigating Asia)
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