Discover Africa: From London to Capetown in 22 Weeks

Trip Highlights

  • For those that are adventurous, you can climb West Africa’s largest mountain, Mount Cameroon, which offers stunning views from the peak
  • Explore the unknown, as guests have the rare opportunity to visit Angola, a region only opened up to tourism in 2004, making it one of the largest and least visited countries in Africa
  • Discover Namibia and spend a couple of day's game viewing from the truck during the day and enjoy the evenings around the floodlit water holes at the park's campsites

Trip Snapshot

The Africa Overland day normally starts around 7am; dawn is at 6 am normally in the tropics. 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. Our days on the road can vary from 100km to 600km. We aim to have one long drive day and then a few short ones; there are days where we don’t go anywhere; such as Zanzibar, Lake Malawi, Victoria Falls and Swakopmund. Lunch is normally at noon where we visit small eating houses so that you can try the local food... Read More >>