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Print this PageCape Town to Cairo 23 Weeks
23 weeks from GBP £6,000 plus local payment US$3,250 (What’s this?)
Week 1-4: Cape Town South Africa, Lesotho, Estwatini
Week 5-8: Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi
Week 9-11: Tanzania, Nairobi, Kenya
Week 12: Nairobi - break Mombasa
Week 13-14: Uganda Gorillas, Kenya
Week 15: Mt Kenya & Northern Kenya
Week 16-20: Ethiopia, Djbouti, Ethiopia
Week 21: Sudan
Week 22-23: Egypt, Cairo
This trip is different – 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. 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.
To join you need to be prepared to work as part of a team and to share with the others on the trip. After this safari 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 find it a lot of fun, though of course, hard at times.
Included
| Two meals per day, on average, prepared by the group, |
| Transport in expedition truck |
| Camping fees & equipment: tents, tables, chairs, cooking gear |
| Addo Elephant National Park and game drive |
| Expedition Truck & 2 Crew |
Excluded
| Flights, visas, transfers, personal insurance, drinks, meals out, tips |
| Optional excursions/side trips |
| Flights (in case of flyover) |
Side trips / Optional extras
| Botswana - Chobe game drive | US$ 70 |
| Zimbabwe - Vic Falls entry $50, Helicopter flight $155/265, Abseil & Gorge Swing $140, Bungee $160, Walk with lions $140, Rhino walk $70 , Rafting $160, Sunset Game Cruise $65 | US$ 0 |
| Malawi - Kande Beach - Scuba dive $80, Horse ride $70, village walk $5, boat hire $25 | US$ 25 |
| Tanzania - Zanzibar Spice Tour - Stonetown, Slave Market, spice plantations, traditional lunch | US$ 40 |
| Tanzania - Zanzibar - Full day diving Mnemba Atoll 2 dives & lunch $80, Snorkeling Mnemba Atoll $30, Swim with dolphins $40, Prison Island - boat, entry & snorkeling $30 | US$ 30 |
| Kenya - Lake Naivasha - Horse Riding $25, Boat trip $60, Elsamere home of Joy Adamson $25, Hells Gate cycle thru the park $65 | US$ 0 |
| Uganda Mountain Gorillas plus local transfer $50. Gorillas trek fees paid for before departure | US$ 930 |
| Uganda - Jinja Bungy jumping $60, Nile White water rafting $160 | US$ 0 |
| Ethiopia - Bahir Dar - Tissisat [Blue Nile] Falls $20, Lake Tana churches $20, boat trip $40, Gondar Monastery & Fasilidas Castles $25, Lalibela Rock Churches $55, Simien Mountain walk $70 a day, Addis Ababa: National Museum $5 | US$ 0 |
| Egypt - Alexandria on the Mediterranean day trip | US$ 100 |
| Egypt – Aswan High Dam, Philae Temple tour $40, Guided tour & Entrance to Abu Simbel $20, Tombs of the Nobles $5, Kitchener Island & Elephantine Island sail boat $5, Edfu Temple $10, Day Trip to Abu Simbel by air $170 | US$ 0 |
| Egypt – Luxor - Balloon Flight over the Nile & Luxor $90, Karnak Temple $14 Luxor Temple $11, Luxor Museum$17 Karnak Temple Sound & Light Show $15, Tomb of King Tutankhamen $15, Valley of the Kings & Workers Tour, entry & guide $35 | US$ 20 |
| Egypt – Cairo - 4 Star Nile Dinner Cruise $40, Cairo Tower $10, Giza Pyramid entry $7-35, Pyramids Sound & Light Show $35, Egyptian Museum $15, Mummy Room in Egyptian Museum $15, Solar Boat Museum at Pyramids $10 | US$ 0 |
| Kenya - Nairobi pre or post day trip. Baby elephants $65, Giraffes feeding $12 half day taxi $30 | US$ 0 |
| Sudan - National Museum, Khartoum | US$ 6 |
| Tanzania - Serengeti & Ngorongoro Crater: two night trip from | US$ 920 |
| LESOTHO – Overnight Hikes with packhorses $70, Overnight Pony Treks $100, Pony Trekking – from US$25 Guided Walks – $5 | US$ 0 |
| Tsitsikamma quad bike $55, Tree Top Canopy Walk $50, Tsitsikama National Park Entrance $16, Waterfall Zip Lining Tsitsikamma Forest $40 | US$ 0 |
| Eswatini Sibebe rock climb | US$ 10 |
| JOHANNESBURG – Apartheid Museum -$7 Soweto Tour $40, Gold Reef City Tour $55 | US$ 40 |
| Visit Djibouti by train. While in Addis take the train Djibouti. A rail journey on the new train from the Ethiopian capital to the Djibouti and coast through the desert to the Red Sea | US$ 120 |
| Nairobi to Mombasa by train. While in Nairobi take the train to Mombasa and the Indian Ocean Coast 1st class for 5 hour day trip across the willd plains | US$ 50 |
Departure Dates
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