Hi All
So we are getting married in the summer. For our honeymoon we are leaving our jobs for a year, we have brought a 4x4 (sprinter van) and plan on driving through Africa.
We have SO MANY questions but right now our main focus is VISAs. Specifically we want to know where we should/could get the VISAs for each country (importantly we need to know which to get before leaving the UK).
Our vague plan is either west coast down to south Africa and back up the east OR a slightly slower pace down the west coast and finish in south Africa a year later (and arrange shipping).
Questions:
1. Is the West and East coast feasible in a year or would we be better just doing the west coast?
2. We have listed the countries we think we would head through (along with VERY rough idea on POSSIBLE dates) - which VISAs should we get before leaving the UK?
3. Any other VISA advice?
4. Any weather / rainy season advice (looking at the suggested dates).
5. Who should we use for a Carnet (as you can see we are looking at Egypt and our Vehicle is probably worth about £17k)
UK-France-Spain (fairly quickly, leaving mid-august)
Morocco (a couple of weeks)
Western Sahara
Mauritania (End of September ISH)
Senegal
Gambia
Guinea (October ISH)
Cote d'Ivoire
Ghana
Togo (November ISH)
Benin
Nigeria
Cameroon (Christmas ISH)
Gabon
Republic of congo
DRC
Angola (Jan ISH)
Namibia
Botswana (Febuary ISH)
South Africa (March)
Mozambique
Zambia (April)
Malawi
Tanzania (MAy)
Uganda
Kenya (June)
Ethiopia
Sudan (July)
Egypt
Turkey (Augsut 2020)
Greece
Any advice (especially VISA related) would be awesome.
Thanks
Kev + H (and our van, Geoffrey)
So we are getting married in the summer. For our honeymoon we are leaving our jobs for a year, we have brought a 4x4 (sprinter van) and plan on driving through Africa.
We have SO MANY questions but right now our main focus is VISAs. Specifically we want to know where we should/could get the VISAs for each country (importantly we need to know which to get before leaving the UK).
Our vague plan is either west coast down to south Africa and back up the east OR a slightly slower pace down the west coast and finish in south Africa a year later (and arrange shipping).
Questions:
1. Is the West and East coast feasible in a year or would we be better just doing the west coast?
2. We have listed the countries we think we would head through (along with VERY rough idea on POSSIBLE dates) - which VISAs should we get before leaving the UK?
3. Any other VISA advice?
4. Any weather / rainy season advice (looking at the suggested dates).
5. Who should we use for a Carnet (as you can see we are looking at Egypt and our Vehicle is probably worth about £17k)
UK-France-Spain (fairly quickly, leaving mid-august)
Morocco (a couple of weeks)
Western Sahara
Mauritania (End of September ISH)
Senegal
Gambia
Guinea (October ISH)
Cote d'Ivoire
Ghana
Togo (November ISH)
Benin
Nigeria
Cameroon (Christmas ISH)
Gabon
Republic of congo
DRC
Angola (Jan ISH)
Namibia
Botswana (Febuary ISH)
South Africa (March)
Mozambique
Zambia (April)
Malawi
Tanzania (MAy)
Uganda
Kenya (June)
Ethiopia
Sudan (July)
Egypt
Turkey (Augsut 2020)
Greece
Any advice (especially VISA related) would be awesome.
Thanks
Kev + H (and our van, Geoffrey)