Nairobi to Cairo via Gorillas 9 Weeks

9 weeks from GBP £4,500 plus local payment US$1,700 (What’s this?)

This trip travels in either direction between Cairo and Nairobi depending on the departure date.

Week 1-2: Nairobi, Kenya, Uganda Gorillas, Kenya
Kenya 3: Mt Kenya & Northern Kenya
Week  4-6: Ethiopia
Week 7: Sudan
Week 8-9: Egypt, Cairo

HIGHLIGHTS
Uganda,  Mountain Gorillas, Source of the Nile, White Water Rafting. Kenya - Lake Nakuru Nat Park, Hell’s Gate, Rift Valley Lakes, Northern Frontier District. Ethiopia - Simien Mountains, Lalibela, Blue Nile Falls, Lake Tana, Gondar. Sudan - Omdurman, Meeting of the Blue & White Nile, Meroe Pyramids. Egypt - Abu Simbel, Valley of Kings & Queens, Karnak Temple, Red Sea Coast, Pyramids of Giza, Cairo.

This tour to Cairo are different from our other departures 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 tour 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.

To join this African adventure from Nairobi 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 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 this tour to Cairo find it a lot of fun though of course hard at times.

Side trips / Optional extras

Departure Dates

View all the dates for this tour on the departure dates page.

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