Hi,guys
I am planning to go from northern Spain to Cape Town, taking west route.
It'll go something like Morocco,western Sahara,Mauritania,Senegal, Malí, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, DRCongo, Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and then route back Swaziland, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan (Port Sudan- Suakin, boat to Jeddah) Jordan, Israel,ferry to Italy (Salerno),France,Spain.
Starting in mid november 2013,I have four months to the project.
I hope to share with you all the information and experiences, all your advice and opinions will be important, the bike KTM 640 Adventure (2004).
,contact me if you think we can meet/do some part of the road together. .


Esteban

Regards

A bunch of guys are aleady heading down the west coast now. Check out the Africa Anyone thread in this forum. They will be a bit a head of you, but you might be interested. In fact some might be in Spain now actually going south.
Cheers,
CJ.

Ey up. I left home a month ago today to do nearly the exact same route as the one you have. Apart from after DR Congo I'm planning to go up to Kenya and then back down the East coast to Cape Town. I'm in Spain at the moment though, currently trying to sort out this biometric visa that we now need for Senegal. Hopefully it will be sorted soon and then I should reach Morocco in a few weeks. Where about's are you now? I've just been reading border crossings between Mauritania and Senegal and the sound pretty horrific. Would be good to do the Diama one with a buddy. I am travelling on a wee Honda c90 though so I'm quite slow. But if you want to take your time I'd be happy teaming up for a bit.

Liam.

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I also need biometric visa for Senegal , next week I will travel to Madrid (I live in Asturias Northern Spain ) for visas harder to get in the way , in my case . Senegal , Nigeria , Angola and DR Congo .
The border crossing between Mauritania and Senegal is a bit hard, you have two options, the first Diama is a path of about 80 km of mud and sometimes partially flooded , especially now that the rainy season in the west, the second Rosso , sounds pretty bad , want to take your money in any situation ( bribery , fines , documents, even invent new fees ) and try to lose your patience , they will always respond with a " C'est l' Afrique patron" .
In my opinion Diama is more quiet, but in this border , I read the blog of a traveler on a motorcycle, he spent over there in August , 2013 , does not have sufficient infrastructure to read the new biometric visa , had to turn back to Rosso and once there took 6 hours to pass to Senegal .

There is another possibility . - Nouakchott to Kiffa and Kiffa to Kayes ( Mali ) and from there to Bamako .
Anyway, I hope to start my route in four weeks , would be nice to share some stage teaming .
I was traveling in Morocco and Western Sahara sometimes

Cheers
Esteban

I did Kiffa-Kayes in November 2012 during our Transafrica.

It has long parts with deep sand, i don't know how you bikers handle that. For driving with a car it was a lot of fun!

The track is sometimes hard to find, because there are many small ones who vanish - but with an GPS you cant go lost - also when the "track" is NOT correct covered - also not in T4A.

I try to maintain a list of all travelers on the west route from 2012 upwards who have a website or write a Blog - maybe you can pickup some informations there:

Trans-Africa: Gerade Unterwegs...

If you want - add you website using the comment function when you start :-)

Enjoy your time on the roads and tracks - we guys at home will follow your progress envious

Surfy

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Trans-Africa over the west coast

Myself and another guy, Jonathan, will head for Gibraltar tomorrow to take the ferry across to Tangier. Most of the Africa Anyone?? thread folks are ahead of us, but I will be stopping for some time in Morocco to surf, so you will surely catch up with me.

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Hi Kruguer,
I'm planning on going the same way around that time too but from mauri I will be heading to Mali, Niger, Chad and then Sudan. Will spend some time in Sudan (visit Dinder National park) then head to Ethiopia and all the way down to South Africa. Will leave UK mid Nov. and should be crossing to tangier approx 10 days later, hope to catch up with you on the way!!
Regards
Schenkel

Hey Schenkel
dates as you say, we will be near or at Tanger I have to stop one day in Rabat, to get my visa for Mauritania and Mali to continue my route south. I know very well the whole road to Mauritania.
If you want we can share road, and then pick up other people to the southern route.
be united makes a stronger team against any adversity.
I will watch the progress of your trip

cheers
Esteban

This guys have start just few days ago for the same trip as yours...It will just ahead of you so you can have some real time infos!

mad about Africa (ταξίδι στην Αφρική και τη Μέση Ανατολή) - mad nomad

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Ha! I ran into these guys in Ourzazate! My sense was that they are moving very slowly, riding all over the place.

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I'm about to leave in about 3 days. I'm hoping of catching some of you guys in Morocco in a few weeks.
@Garnaro, you are right about Essaouira being a tourist trap, maybe Taghazout is better.

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Hi, my son and I arrived in Cape Town from Canada couple weeks ago and bought used 650 gs's, sorted out the registration process, and headed north to Lesotho in a couple days. We are going SA, Lesotho, Zim, Moz, Malawi, Tanz, Kenya, Ethiopia...
Plan is to loop around Lake Victoria after Ethiopia through Uganda, Rwanda, etc. and head over toward Namibia and down to South Africa for flight home end of Feb.

However, my son is open to the idea of going right from Ethiopia to Europe. He would love to go to Israel as he has friends there...

So anything possible.

Lets keep in touch.

Larry and Mike, heading north from Cape Town

hey guys - anybody with an ETA for taghazout? still camping here, but swell is now subsiding - hoping to head south sometime next week.

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Hello everyone.
I don't think I will make it to Taghazout for mid November. I'm taking the ferry to Morocco tomorrow, but my heart is set on seeing Chefchouen so I'm going to go there first. Then I need to go to Rabat and sort out my Mauritanian visa. If anyone else finds that they have to meet up later then I'd still be up for it. Hope all your journeys go well if not.

Liam.

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Hi guys,

We're in Rabat at the moment and going to pick up visas tomorrow. We should make Taghazout midweek next week, all things going to plan...

Cheers,
Spook