Dubai to Cape Town...........the journey of a lifetime.

A few stats on our adventure thus far:

- Favourite Place so Far - Tim & Kims (Lake Tana, Ethiopia)

- Best Local Dish - Njera (Ethiopian Pancake) with Lamb, Garlic and Chilli (bought by our Guide in Megab, Ethiopia)

- Road Kill - Birds (2), Goats (0), Sheep (0), Donkey (0), Cow (0), Horse (0), Camel (0)........

- No# Times Thumper Got Stuck - ZERO

- No# Times Thumper has Leant a Helping Hand - 1x Landcruiser (stuck in riverbed), 1x bus (flat battery), 1x Egyptian car (flat battery)

- Favourite Beer - St Georges (Ethiopia)

- Worst Road - Simien Mountains to Aksum, Ethiopia (5 hours to drive 100km, felt like a 5 hour mountain pass under construction)

- Biggest Scam - 2x Rastas sold us a bottle of local gin and tonic for 4x the price, Faranji (westerner) pricing, Ghonder, Ethiopia.

- Great water ways visited - Blue and White Nile, Lake Tana, Lake Nasser

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Sudan – Africa here we come!

The people here are indeed very warm and friendly, this is evident as you drive through the country. Not only do most of them all wave at you when you drive passed, but each car, bus or truck that you cross will hoot and flash their lights just to say hello. Our first day on [...]

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Wadi Halfa - Welcome to Africa

Dahab to Crazy Cairo,Luxor and Aswan

Dahab to Ras Sudr The drive from Dahab to Cairo was an interesting one. We arrived at the first security check point, only to  be told that the St Katherine monastery  was closed and that we would have to be escorted all the way back from where we had just come from by police convoy. [...]

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Mikey departs Dubai, with leo as company

Jordan….Finally I get to join the adventure

I met Mike at Jordan International Airport on the evening of the 6 March. He looked like he had been dragged through a bush backwards – Saudi does that to you apparently I delayed the journey by one day as I left the laptop behind….. but I knew that Marco and Delphine (Pippa’s new family) [...]

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Sandstorm

Saudi…..the journey

What a relief to be through Saudi and in actual fact after all the hype it wasn’t to bad. After realizing on Wednesday morning that I didn’t have any Garmin maps for my route, there was a mild panic but alas we had old school paper maps. Off I headed, sad to leave Dubai and [...]

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi…..

  Saudi, Saudi, Saudi………………. I won’t forget a quote from the Saudi King in 1930 –  ”My Kingdom will survive only insofar as it remains a country difficult to access, where the foreigner will have no other aim, with his task fulfilled, but to get out.” — King Abdul Aziz bin Saud, c. 1930 Need [...]

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Arabian Ranches - Thank you for your support

Charity Golf Day

Our Golf day took place on Saturday afternoon 31st March at The Arabian Ranches. We had three mens’ teams and one ladies’ team. All those who played contributed AED300 toward the charity we are supporting – Build Africa. Congratulations to John Higgs for winning the prize for the longest drive, Austen Peters for winning closest [...]

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