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
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