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1 Dec 2011
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Hi Chris,
Just logged on to forum. Replied your PM
Been on the road past 4 days
Benin-Onitsha-Owerri-Port Harcourt
From Port Harcourt go through Ogoni route to Uyo then Calabar
Avoid Aba! I have not passed through Aba in last 4 years or so.
Where are you now?
I did the Ekok Mamfe road 4 years ago on a GS and it took 6 hours to do 50km or so. If the road has not been fixed, bye bye your scooter unless you get a truck to carry it
There is a ferry from Calabar to (close to-) Douala you may want to use
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Originally Posted by chris.perjalanan
Hi.
Finally one day before my benin visa expired got the visa for ridiculous 50.000cfa, on the visa itself its written 23.500 and in the end it was a 10 day transit visa even though he promised me a 2 weeks one. Anybody who is thinking about getting the nigerian visa in cotonou, prepare for plenty of headache I was close to slap this wankers face as he handed over the passport.
Currently I am in lagos, going to benin city tomorrow morning. Have to get to calabar to get cameroon visa
@ inyang
What is your expert opinion on which route i should take from benin city to calabar ? Is it save to drive the way through Port Harcourt ? Ekok - Mamfe crossing advisible at the moment ?
greetings from Lagos Shomolu
Chris
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4 Dec 2011
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Currently in Calabar, met some lebanese guys and now stay with them. Family has very good connections, managed to make one month visa extention for free. Went through Aba, pretty dodgy place indeed. Otherwise, my Nigeria transit was long but abnsolutely not as bad as i thought. Met really really nice and hospitable people, basicly slept every days at peoples houses I met on the street.
aeet inyang ...
Got your message too late, arrived in Port Harcourt from Benin City at 9 in the evening and acctually got a room a Rollys Hotel for free as i told the manager about my trip when asking him for a place to put my tent, love nigerians.
No problem with police at all, got stopped at maybe 8 Checkpoints but always just where are you from, where are you going, lets take a photo together, bye bye, friendly guys. Even drove through maany checkpoints even though they tried to stop me but nobody tried to follow me, too lazy ...
Looking forward for cameroon, but have to fly in new front shock damper so loads of time for plenty of  and ghanaian herbs
chris
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19 Dec 2011
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Hi Chris,
we fried the clutch on our Tenere on Ekok to Mamfe. For you will be fairly easy as you can follow the tracks of the small chinese bikes that the locals are using without any problem. For us the difference in tire size made the clutch fry (like driving with the rear brake on all the time) Also now is way less rain (should be dry season from dec) so way easier. more recent pics on ride tales or on aour blog blog.intotheworld.eu
The north Nigeria - North Cameroon road is pretty dangerous (Boko Haram territories) but it was done safely by 2 germans w. a Land Cruiser (alpertours.de). I personally would not recommend it.
The 3rd option is the ferry from Calabar to Limbe which is the simplest option (but more $$$ ~8000naira/person + the bike).
Take care and safe riding. We're currently stuck in DRC without Angola Transit visa. I'll give more info on the thread about that.
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