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Welcome to the Africa branch!

Welcome to the Thorn Tree's Africa branch.

We hope you find plenty of useful information about travelling to Africa here. It is highly recommended that new users check out the Africa FAQ thread before posting a new thread as you may find many of the answers you seek there. It also contains helpful information about how to search the forum, advice for how to post your questions, and obsolete information was deleted as recently as June 2008! If you are a returning user or an Africa guru, please help us keep the FAQ thread up-to-date by adding important information which is absent, or pointing out information which is no longer being represented accurately.

Choosing a country to post to:

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Going to Nairobi overland

Hi all

Want to travel overland to Nairobi from Ethiopia and want to know if it's possible basically!? if so how easy is it, is there nice paved roads to the Nairobi and one can take a direct bus? or is it some 5 day slog through the bush? sorry if the whole thing sounds naive, never travelled east africa before. Any advice and or help would go a long way, cheers

Jason

Travelling between Chobe (Botswana) and Windhoek

Im coming over to South Africa for the World Cup next summer.

Starting in Zambia but want to travel from Victoria Falls via Kasane to Windhoek.

What is the best way to transit from Kasane/Kazangula to Katima Mulilo and onto Windhoek?

Hotel/hostels in Kasane/Katima?

any tips much appriciated, not on a budget as such

Cheers.

Looking for travel company Brazzaville-Douala feb 2010

Hi all!

Im a swedish nature enthusiast enjoying the more complex african roads. Coming february/march (2010) I plan a trip from Brazzaville to Douala via Ouesso. The cameroonian part of the journey seems straightforward enough, but for the congolese part I would be very interested in finding a fellow traveller to team up with. My plan is to fly into Brazzaville by the middle of february. From there I plan to either travel east by boat along the Congo river and then onto the Sangha up towards Ouesso and the Cameroonian border, or head north from Brazzaville by road towards Ouesso. I would very much prefer the boatride, but it all depends on availability and timing. Of course I plan to visit various interesting places, not least Ndoki Nouabale NP in northern Congo, along the way. Anyone interested? Adventures guaranteed...

I would also be very happy to gain any information avail... more »

Flights to Casablanca (CMN) from West Africa

I've been looking at flights from Cotonou, Benin (COO) to Mohammed V airport in Casablanca (CMN), and they are really expensive -- in the neighborhood of US$1800. Flights from other West African cities (Ouagadougou, Bamako, Lagos, etc.) are not much cheaper (Kayak.com is showing me nothing but prices from US$1400 and up). Royal Air Maroc seems to be just ridiculously expensive.

I will want to get from Cotonou to Casablanca (or somewhere else in Morocco would be OK as well) sometime in late January 2011. As my travel plans will be quite flexible, I'm perfectly willing to take buses and/or flights to some other place in West Africa in order to get to Morocco, if it'll be cheaper; I just can't believe that a four-and-a-half-hour flight should cost US$1800.

Any suggestions? How would you get from Benin to Morocco without spending a fortune?

cairo airport to st catherine,sinai

i would like to ask you about taking a taxi from cairo airport to sinai(st. catherine). is it possible and how much it costs?

driver desert sharm el sheik

hi

do you know a good driver for desert next sharm el sheik

Books and maps for driving in Botswana

I'm heading to Windhoek and then driving to The Okavango Delta in Botswana in January - what books and raod maps would people recommend?

cheers

WATER and WEATHER

Hi,

we are planning to visit Egypt in February or March. It´s gonna be our first trip to this country and we like to know how´s the WEATHER like in February and March and the other thing we are interested in is the quality of WATER - we heard a lot of people visiting Egypt suffered from diarrhoea and some our friends even ended in hospital. So is the local water really so bad and tourists should buy only bottled water? And what about food? And one more thing - in case we get sick what kind of medicament is the most effective? :)

Thanks in advance for all of your answers!