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London to Cape Town Overland February 2010

  • 28-11-2009 12:50am
    #1
    Pocket Pillager
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭


    Hi All,

    My friend and I are planning to drive from London to Cape Town in early February 2010 (as early as possible). Early February is now set in stone as we are both leaving work for this trip. If you fancy some adventure then read on!

    We are Mike and Christine. Mike has a 300 series Landrover Defender called Himba which has been built from scratch to a decent expedition spec. We are looking for 1-2 people to join us on this trip.

    The trip should take around 6 months and take in:

    Libya
    Tunisia
    Egypt
    Sudan
    Ethiopia
    Kenya
    Rwanda
    Uganda
    Tanzania
    Malawi
    Zambia
    Botswana
    Namibia and
    South Africa

    Mike is a 28 year old male from London. I'm Christine, a 26 year old female from Dublin. We have both had enough of city life and want to fulfil a life long ambition! Mike has been lucky to have travelled quite extensively through Europe, the US, Canada, Central America and Australasia. I've travelled in Oman, Malaysia, Mongolia, Japan, the US and various places in Europe. Mike also spent January in Africa on an overland trip (Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia) which has helped with planning this trip. He is a qualified first aider and has a fair amount of expedition experience, which will hopefully come in useful!

    We are looking for fun, well balanced individuals with a keen sense for adventure. Male or female, young or old makes no difference to us but previous travel experience would be very useful and we absolutely need to hear from you sooner rather than later as the final touches are now being put to this trip.

    Every trip participant will be expected to contribute to the cost of the trip. We envisage this would be around £6,000 per person based on three coming, less if there are four of us for the 6 month trip. This will go purely towards the costs of the trip. We would also like to involve a charity in some way – either through sponsorship or actual hands on work out in Africa.

    If you’d like to join us or just find out a bit more, please feel free to PM me.

    Look forward to hearing from you!

    Mike & Christine ^_^


Comments

  • #2
    mikedragon32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,939 ✭✭✭mikedragon32


    I had moved this thread from T&H before seeing you had also posted it in Indy already. Please don't cross post the same thread on different forums, it comes over as spam.


  • #3
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Is Sudan safe?
    You know the whole Darfur situation?

    If you're organizing it then I'm confident you'll have thought of this.
    All the same, if I was looking to do this, can you say you've taken this into account

    Sounds fantastic though


  • #4
    Gaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭Gaz


    Sudan is perfecrly safe (with the exception of the east) and possibly the highlight of Africa with regards to the people. When in Sudan makes sure to check out the Pyramids of Meroe. Also you will be glad to know that the new roads from Wadi Halfa are well on the way to being complete.
    Only issue I had was the red tape of a night mare that is there visa/registration process.


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