Overlanding and adventure tours
Overlanding and adventure tours
- Overlanding explained
- Kingdoms and Carnivals expedition diary
- Andi and Grant's Trans-Africa diary
- The Festival of the Desert
- 11th July 2006: Arriving in Cape Town
- 15th May: Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania
- 19th April: From Congo to Nairobi
- 23rd February 2006: Getting to Gabon
- 13th February 2006: Crossing into Cameroon
- 30th January 2006: Timbuktu to Ghana
- 23rd December 2005: Mali
- 15th December 2005: Mauritania
- 2nd December 2005: Morocco and Mauritania
- 6th November 2005: Morocco
- Trans Africa Expedition
- Pre-departure interview with Oasis Overland
- Pre-departure interview with overlanding gapper
- Overlanding the Silk Road
Follow an overland truck across Africa Back to good health and feeling the pain..."This is a quick update as we will be heading into countries where we will be quite isolated from the modern technologies of internet for a while. Thankfully, the boys are fine and well after their dose of Malaria. They were well looked after by the doctor and their girlfriends and are back with healthy appetites and more than ready for a drink or two. The climbers back from Mount Cameroon loved the trek but also think that it is one of the hardest climbs they have done. You start at sea level with high temperatures and humidity and then work your way over terrains of rocks, volcanic stones, bush and steep escarpments to the peak of the mountain where it's feezing and windy! They arrived back to see level after two and three days feeling tired and walking very tenderly! A brush with the law We then made our way to Yaounde where we spent five nights as we applied for visas for the next three countries. Here we managed to lose four of the boys for the night as they went to arrange a brewery tour and never came home. Where do you start to look?! Everyone helping out, tracing their tracks and phoning the British and Canadian embassies. However, after a few hours they were found at a police station and immigration point after being taken in for not having their passports on them. Of course it is not possible to have them on you as the Gabon embassy has them... The boys had great stories to tell us about their brush with the law. A few pizzas, quiches and a couple of beers later and we hear all about their adventure.  Sore heads and sandy bedsFrom Yaounde, we made our way bush camping on route to Liberville in Gabon, passing logging trucks galore. The scenery was amazing, but Gabon is very expensive Here you can get anything you want though and we have not seen a supermarket like this one since Morocco. Heaven... Maree had her 29th birthday last night so there are a few sore heads today. Kip and Jas made a punch with all that they could find on the truck. After a few glasses of this, they rounded the evening off with some skinny dipping! We currently staying on the beach as we wait for our final visa for Angola. Things in this country do not happen very fast, but they do happen. Speak soon..."
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