Trans Africa Overland Maps - 2

In Nov 2010, I joined an Oasis Overland truck to embark on a 9 month Overland journey around Africa. (See the full route on the map below.) Starting in Gibraltar, and continuing every driving day since then, I have been recording the route that the Oasis Overland truck has taken, using my Garmin GPSmap60Cx GPS receiver. You can see the routes for the first half of the journey on the Gibraltar to Cape Town page. In Cape Town I had a 2 month break, having decided to swap trucks. On the 19th of June 2011 I joined my next truck, for the journey from Cape Town to Cairo.

Note: Routes for the period 2011-09-10 to 2011-09-18 are not shown as we travelled around Ethiopia by plane, without the truck. The journey by boat from Wadi Halfa to Aswan was also not recorded. There are some missing segments in the 2011-10-15 route, when we took a night-bus to Dhahab via Suez, and the route from Dhahab to Cairo is especially fragmented, when the mini-bus that we were travelling in blocked much of the GPS signal. The total distance from Cape Town to Cairo with the Oasis truck was approximately 19,174km, though this figure will not include gaps in tunnels, or when the GPS had a small gap whilst its batteries were being replaced. As with all these distances, it misses out little side trips in local taxis and minibuses too. The total distance from Cairo to Amman with the Kumuaka truck was approximately 3,870 km. Adding the distance of the Gibraltar to Cape Town leg (23,500 km) this gives a total distance travelled for my 2010-2011 Africa Overland Expedition of 46,544 km. For those of you who like to put things in perspective, thats 6,469 km greater than the total circumference of the earth! It really was a long trip this year!! As to actually going around the earth, I hope to do that next year. But that's another story for another time...

.All .gpx files featured on this page are available for personal licensing - this means that you can purchase them for your own uses. Please Contact Me for prices and details. All photos from the journey can eventually be seen at my GnomePlanet freelance photography website, but this may take a while, so why not check out the Central Asia, Mongolia, Russia, and India travel photos that are already there. Route Reports come courtesy of the uTrack - the online GPX track report generator.