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Old 19 Mar 2015
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London to Capetown October-ish 2015
I'm currently planning a trip from London to Cape Town, keen to start in October but could postpone for a short period if the right person/people are keen to join.

At the moment I'm leaning towards going the eastern route through Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and beyond. I potentially have a friend who lives in Kenya joining for the last half half and someone else in Addis Ababa is also interested. I speak a bit of basic Swahili and hoping to be better by the start of the trip.

I'd love to take a route down the Western side but I'm apprehensive about doing that route solo.

I'm thinking of doing the trip on a DRZ-400. I'm 26 and fairly easy going. I've learnt basic repair skills on a 3 month course and hoping to have another three months of learning under my belt by the time I leave.

If you're interested (for part or all of the route) or know anyone who might be please let me know!

Jimmy


EDIT:***********************UPDATE**************** **********************

Now settled on doing the Western route, a couple of people are keen to join but we could do with a with a few more interested riders!
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Hi Jimmy, I did the Western Route, London to Cape Town solo last year, it was great fun and believe me you wont rely be alone as you will always meet other travellers.
I am going to do the Eastern Route back up to Europe in 2016.
Have you found a way into Egypt from Europe yet, if so please send the info as it seems to be very hard to do.
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Thanks JC, how long did it take you? Did you have any problems with any of the borders?

Egypt looked pretty tricky, from what I could see most of the ferries from Venice, Cyprus and Crete have all closed down to passengers. Apparently some of the RORO cargo boats will take passengers if you talk to the right people, I've heard that its easier to get a boat into Israel than Egypt. Apparently Israeli customs are happy not to stamp your passport which means you can still get into the various countries that would normally ban you.
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Hey Jimmy, I'm starting late September or early October in the other direction -- riding from South Africa to Egypt, then east to the Pamirs, Himalayas and India.

Flying my DR650 from Toronto to Johannesburg on South African Airways (maybe Cape Town, but Jo'burg is less shipping expense).

I have a post here http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...starting-80476

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Wow that looks like quite the trip! The more I look into it the more I'm thinking of doing the west coast. I'll probably come to a decision in the next few weeks.
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Hello Jimmy,this is a trip ive wanted to do for along time ,my partner has been none to happy about me doing it by myself but with someone else maybe.My partners father lives in South Africa in Pretoria so that was someone to head for .Time scale October could be agood time for me as well anyway would be good to talk regards Richard
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@ jcgreyling I be interested . doing some planning going solo HJ 60 landcruiser to France and Germany. Thanks for the info.
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Anybody going up the west side as we are leaving in July.
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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.

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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.

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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
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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.
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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...
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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.

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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.
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