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UK to Cape Town Autumn 2011
Hi,
Planning my trip now.
From UK to Cape Town. Hoping to leave by October 2011.
KTM 990 Adventure.
Currently looking at options for travel West Africa, the route less travelled!. May do East Africa if West too difficult.
Looking for companions en route.
Thanks.
Karl
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30 May 2011
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Trip
Hi karl,
Good luck, I am maybe doing a similar trip later on around September this year on my bike.
Western Route there are more things to see and easy to start from morocc rather than egypt.
You got your route planned or just as it comes ? cheers martin
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31 May 2011
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Austria - Cape Town Start in August
Hi Border Hooner,
i go on August the east coast have a look on Harald ( Harry ) Häninger | freedom-on2wheels
if you are interestet we can go a bit together i am not in hurry so i will be in egypt at mid of september...
grteets
harry
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31 May 2011
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Hi,
I have no route yet.
First I need to work out things like Carnet and visas.
The bike I am riding into Cape Town is actually being imported into Cape Town, so I will have all the import documents and I will have a Temp Residency Permit (I'm emigrating there with my wife, she is flying ahead to set up our new home)
I also wish to travel in September but it all depends how soon I can get my paperwork sorted.
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1 Jun 2011
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Hello Mate,
Seems like there could be a few people interested in doing something similar at more or less the same time. Have a look at the following post:
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...p-2011-a-56612
Cheers,
CJ.
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3 Jun 2011
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So glad I found this forum. Was thinking of doing Uk to Cape - via east Africa. My girlfriend is Kenyan and about to leave the UK heading back to TZ to work. I finish my current contract in September and want to leave soon after.
I got distracted looking at unimogs and ex army-dafs and thought, considering I'm trying to be an ecoworrier, then they ain't the way to go LOL! Plus converting a truck could take years, and I may never get going.
Alterntaively - if I get an Yamaha 660 , I can be off on time, plus if it breaks, well I can probably fix it. And the big plus - I don't have to use my life's savings.
So if some of you fancy the route that might take in Turkey, Syria (quite quickly please) , Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, TZ, and then the rest (I was only thinking as far as getting to TZ but now want to get all the way down :-).
Kenya's road have improved drasticaly. Went in 2002 on honeymoon with first wife and lots of roads have become, er, craters. Went back last year and they now have a 10 lane highway out of Nairbi heading north! And smooth single carriageway tarmac all the way to Nanyuki. Don't know about the rest of Africa though!?
Simon
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