Up East Route
 

Hi !

I am going upfrom Cape Town to Germany via the east route.

Send me a private note with you whatsapp contact. I can frward you ongoing news how it is going on the east side.

A friend just did it and had no issues.

Roland

Hi are you busy travelling the East route now ?
I wan to do it in April so would like any info you have.
Thank you

If you guys need any info on West coast of Africa let me know.
Cheers

@ jcgreyling I be interested . doing some planning going solo HJ 60 landcruiser to France and Germany. Thanks for the info.

West Africa
 

Anybody going up the west side as we are leaving in July.:mchappy:
Cheers
Paul

Eastroute Transafrica
 

Hi JC GREYLING,

any info about the east route is quite a wide range of data.

Get preceise with your questions, get in touch with your whatsapp number by private note.

Also have a look at my facebook profile and my web site www.FiveElementsTour.com | Panamericana complete // Transafrica (Cape Town to Stuttgart) coming soon !!!
Tracking (real) – www.FiveElementsTour.com

I hope I cet it up to date before I leave and you can find tha main informatios there.

Roland

Hey photographicsafaris, what a name, but clearly understandable.

I to would love to go Mali, always wanted to visit those dogon villages and timbuktu, but the red on the maps are not doing us any favours. Would you still go?

My timeframe is still flexible, leaving end of 2015 and just want to be back in europe for summer touring and a wedding in germany in august 2016! I will be in germany around october 2015 and at this stage planning to buy a new ktm 690 enduro. Would probably need a month to kit up, run the bike in and tie up loose ends. At the moment travelling with a wr250r but it is doing alot of work. By the time i get to germany it will have done close to 40000km. Will have to decide then if it is right for africa or go with the ktm.

Jimmy, you still interested?

JC Greyling and rolandger - thanks for the offers, i will be firing questions at you guys as the time gets closer.

cheers,
regie

Hey Jimmyha
have been dreaming about west coast trip for a while now.......................only thing is i know nothing about bikes, am just opening up the engine on an xr600 with a (qualified haha) friend to hopefully leave it ready for a trip to morroco and possibly no mans land between morroco and mauritania and/or beyond in early/mid oct,.................. if all works out i shall be free to carry on south so keep me posted, i live in mojacar almeria spain so by all means call in on your way down if i'm around
cheers
ben

Karl (regie)- I'm still very much up for this! I've handed in my notice to quit my job (finish end of September) and there is pretty much nothing that can stop me from doing this.

I spoke to Richard (pig_man) on the phone last week and he sounds like he's completely committed to this trip as well.

A dutch friend of mine has been living in Kenya the last couple of years, he got in touch today to say that he's keen to ride from Cape Town up the east of Africa for the second leg.


wiltrvl4evr- Great to hear that you are interested! Are you committed to those dates or do you have some flexibility?

I think the next stage we need to get to is work out who's keen and get an idea of timings. I can leave from mid-october and I really want to be on road before December. I'm happy to do the European leg early and then slow down/stop in North Africa waiting for people to catch up if that works.

also I feel I should probably be honest here, as a Welshman I'm not actually starting this journey in London.

Just thought I would get more interest with London in the title rather than Cardiff to Cape Town...

hey, havnt had decent internet for a while. Will be in khiva tomorrow and will stay a few days, so will have time for a little research. I am still on track to be in germany in october. Still thinking i will buy a new bike there and wanting to hit the road nov-dec.

cheers,
karl

Reggie sorry for the late response, had a slightly manic couple of weeks. My DRZ got stolen, after a couple of weeks of being used for various crimes and a few smashes its now been recovered but looks like its going to be written off.

Still planning on doing the trip but on a different bike. Probably going to go for a DR350.

How are you getting on? In terms of timings I need to be out of the UK by mid to late November but ideally like to go at the start of the month.

Hey Jimmy,

That's crazy, your bike getting stolen!

No worries about the delay. I have actually been stuck in Aktau, west kazakhstan the last week with a burned-out generator. Waiting on new parts. Should come very soon, last update it was allready in almaty.

So, i am still on track to be in germany at the begining of october. I was hoping to spend some time sorting the new bike and hanging with my family there. Probably couldnt make the begining of november. was Thinking i would leave around end november. Not sure how long the visa is for morocco but i would probably hang there for a while as well, given its one of the safest and accessible countries in that region. Maybe if our timings dont match perfectly we could meet there.

I saw on the t meets t page an overland truck looking for paying customers, and checked their route - have a look and tell me what you think. I still havnt had a chance to get some idea of where i really want to go. I guess i'm gonna have to go shopping at the lonely planet store and read up on 'what's to see'

cheers,
karl

Hi Karl,

Even if we don't set off the same time I'm sure we will meet up at some point. Some people in the group are keen to head off as early as the end of October so we might end up being a bit ahead of you.

When I reach Cape Town I'm thinking of getting on a boat to Tristan da Cunha, the whole trip will probably take about 3 weeks before I'm back on the bike. If I'm still ahead of you when I get to SA that should level the playing field a little!

Jimmy

wow, how many people in the group? have you guys got a rough route and timeframe?