EXPEDITIONS

AFRIKA ODYSSEY – CAPE TO CAIRO

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Objectives

A challenging world-first, year-long journey of discovery in open boats, along the coastlines, rivers and great lakes of Africa.

Route

  • Bagoria
  • Baringo and Turkana
  • Lake Rukwa and Lake Tanganyika
  • Lake Turkana
  • Lake Victoria; the Victoria Nile; Lake Edward; George and Albert
  • Shire River and Lake Malawi
  • The coast of Kenya
  • The Ethiopian Rift Valley lakes
  • The Kenya lakes of Naivasha
  • The mouth of the Nile and Alexandria
  • The Nile for Omdurman to Cairo
  • The Zambezi River from Angola to the Indian Ocean

The Adventure

Nelson Mandela had just been released and there was a wind of positive political change blowing across South Africa, which allowed us to feel as if we were citizens of the greater ‘Mama Afrika’.

So, armed with a Zulu calabash of Cape Point sea water and a Scroll of Peace and Goodwill, we crossed the African continent along its timeless waterways: from the storm-tossed seas of Cape Point, along South Africa’s Wild Coast, through the magnificent Okavango Delta, along the length of the great Zambezi and Shire rivers and across some of Africa’s greatest lakes, including Malawi, Rukwa, Tanganyika, Victoria and Turkana – then down the historic Nile to Cairo and Alexandria at the mouth of this legendary river.

For us ‘pilgrims of adventure’, it was a journey that changed our lives forever and is documented in the book ‘Cape to Cairo – one family’s adventures along the waterways of Africa’.

For us ‘pilgrims of adventure’, it was a journey that changed our lives forever and is documented in the book ‘Cape to Cairo – one family’s adventures along the waterways of Africa’.