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A friend of mine who works for the DED (something like the German UNICEF) used to have a contract in South Africa and is now working in Uganda. He asked me and a couple of friends to take his car from South Africa to Uganda because he didn´t have enough time. We started in Johannesburg and went up north via Mozambique, Malawi and Tanzania to Kampala / Uganda. The whole tour took us about one and half months and it turned out to be the most awesome thing i´ve ever done.

Before the trip we were somewhat unsure if it might be unsafe or otherwise disturbing but the opposite was true. We encountered the most friendly people, never felt unsafe and saw the most amazing wildlife and cities possible.
The whole trip was spiked with strange and at the same time funny events like persuading a local governor to get into our car because we needed him to tell a guard at a bridge that we can cross the river. Snorkeling in a lake where we saw crocodiles going into the water 200 meters further and camping in the bush under a baboon infested tree.

I am now planning my next trip on which i will go in about a year, after graduating from uni. That tour will go by car from Germany to either Cape Town / South Africa or to Vietnam. I´ve got two other guy who are going to come along and am looking for more people to join. If you´re interested check the second post in this thread.

The route we took

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Elephant in the Krueger national park right next to our car.

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Awesome architecture in Beira / Mozambique

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Local Kids excited by the presence of a camera. One of them started crying out of happiness after seeing herself on the LCD display of the Digicam.

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Sunset at beautiful Lake Malawi

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Us hanging out in Dar Es Salam with a couple of Bangladeshi friends who live there

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Beach on Zanzibar where we went swimming with dolphins

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Lion passing our car in the Serengeti

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A couple of workers we drank with at the port of Mwanza / Tanzania on the ship on which we crossed Lake Victoria

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Stealth bomber. Photographed in Luwero / Uganda

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Average house of relatively rich people in Uganda

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So, on my next trip i´ll be driving a car to either Cape Town / South Africa or to Vietnam. It really depends on the political situations
in the relevant countries. My personal favourite would be going south along the African west coast but the other options would be nice, too.
We are beginning to plan the trip now so we will be well prepared for everything and will be leaving in about one year.
Like mentioned above, i´ve got two other guys coming along and i´m looking for other people to join in. We will be traveling in either a Toyota
Land Cruiser or a Toyota Hilux and will stay at camping sites or cheap lodges.
So if anyone is interested in going on his or her most exciting road trip in their life send me PM for more information.

Here are the possible routes we are going to take:

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Wow that sounded amazing, i wish i cold go on a trip like that, haha. I would especially loved to have seen all the animals, so lucky!
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Wow and I thought Las Vegas to LA or Salt lake City was a road trip....
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Deutschland to 'Nam?

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Yeah, now you now why i have to find people to come along? :wink:
In a car of four i expect it to cost about 1000€ gasoline per person. Maybe even more. But hey, we save a flight.
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You, hav done the cross-Africa journe. uie impressive
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Holy shit salm!

Baboons?

Dar Es Salam?

Awesome photos of what sounds like an even more awesome trip!
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