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African Trails runs camping safaris using overland trucks to take groups of people through Africa. http://www.africantrails.co.uk/

30/11/2024

Roomy Two Person Dome Ten
The Africa Overland day starts at dawn; 6am in the tropics
Trip life on a safari truck. While the cook group sorts out the breakfast, everyone takes down their tent, rolls up their sleeping bag and stows their bags on the truck. After breakfast, normally tea, coffee, cereal and the occasional cooked breakfast or pancakes, we wash up and pack up and try to be on the road by 8am. Of course there are days where we hit the road earlier, and others with a lie in.

26/11/2024

Trans Africa - What’s it like?
As we will be camping and travelling for an extended period of time, you must be prepared for an adventurous challenge. It can be hot and dusty, and will sometimes be out of contact from the rest of the world. This means no telephones, shops or any other mod cons. We need you to participate and work with all members of the expedition. For the Trans we use sturdy purpose-built vehicles for these rugged off-road conditions.

Due to the nature of the trip, Trans Africa tours do not have a specific day-to-day itinerary.

23/11/2024

Mauritania
We pass into the Sahara Desert and follow the Atlantic Coast
It is never forgotten. Visit oases with cool water surrounded by palms, stretches of sand as big as a small country, old forts, camel trains following centuries old trading routes, and a night sky undiluted by city lights. We go hundreds of miles off road, sometimes digging the truck out of the soft sands to get through.

20/11/2024

The important bit
Our African expeditions to Cairo are different from our other expedition to Cairo and other holidays you may have taken – we go through areas where no tourists go, the roads can be bad, food can be limited to what we have stocked on the truck, campsites are few and basic, visas can be hard to get and communication to the outside world limited or unavailable at times. On this expedition from London to Cairo we guarantee; we’ll break down, that we will have to wait some where we don’t really want to be for visas spare parts or just for someone to open a closed road and we’ll have to dig the truck out of mud and sand. The trip might overrun so finish late; the route can change due to rains, closed roads visa issues, breakdowns and politics. It’s best not to book your return flights home until you finish the trip

17/11/2024

To join this African expedition from London to Cairo you need to be prepared to work as part of a team and to share with the others on the trip. Some of the things you’ll never forget are the satisfaction of getting a 16 ton truck unstuck, cooking over open fires after collecting the firewood, pitching a tent and getting it right even when it rains, going to sleep when its dark and waking at dawn and wanting to get out of your sleeping bag to start another day in which you have no idea of what will happen, washing in rivers, not washing and not caring that your dirty, living outside for months, seeing more than you have ever before, trying to learn French, Arabic or Swahili and having people understand what you say, finding out just how far places are away from where you started and how different places can be and how unaffected out of the way places are from the world we normally live in. Most people who do a London to Cairo expedition find it a lot of fun, though of course hard at times.

16/11/2024

Overland Safari Truck – Built for overlanding
We, and other overland companies we work with, operate our vehicles in Africa. Where all the trucks are serviced and maintained, enabling us to provide you with safe reliable transport. Vehicle design has evolved over the years to provide off the road driving and the most practical and comfortable vehicles for our African travel.

14/11/2024

Overland Safari Truck – Built for overlanding
We, and other overland companies we work with, operate our own vehicles from our safari workshops in Africa. Where all the trucks are serviced and maintained, enabling us to provide you with safe reliable transport. Most of our trucks are late model Scania and Mercedes Benz trucks with Euro 4 fuel efficient emissions and enviro-friendly motors with safety features such as ABS anti-lock braking and air-ride suspension for a much smoother ride.

12/11/2024

The Expedition Vehicles – Safari Truck
Safari Truck – Great for getting to those out of the way places
An overland safari should be on everyone’s list. It’s the best ways to see Africa. Many people return for a second trip. Rugged, off the road, safari trucks to cross deserts and get off the beaten track.

10/11/2024

Leaving Nairobi we stop at the Rift Valley scenic lookout its 8,000 feet high and overlooks Mount Longonot and Lake Naivasha. We camp beside the lake. Close by is Hell’s Gate National Park where you can hire bikes to take you around the park and see the herds of zebra, buffalo and antelope. You can also wander in the predator free reserve amongst African game. There is spectacular scenery here; red cliffs, grassy plains and rock towers made of hardened lava and the remains of ancient volcanoes.

By the lake is Elsamere; home of Joy Adamson and Elsa the lion of ‘Born Free’ fame. Elsamere is now the centre of the Born Free Foundation and you can find out more about their work and take afternoon tea in the gardens. Lake Naivasha, camping under the fever trees on the shore of Lake Naivasha, with hippos grazing on the shore in the evening

09/11/2024

Safari Truck – Great for getting to those out of the way places
An overland safari should be on everyone’s list. It’s the best ways to see Africa. Many people return for a second trip.
Rugged, off the road, safari trucks to cross deserts and get off the beaten track.

06/11/2024

Trans Africa - not a care in the world

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Morecambe
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http://www.africantrails.co.uk/

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