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A loaded four-wheel drive with a roof box driving away on a red laterite road, dust rising behind it, the road running on over green hillsA convoy of expedition vehicles on a tarmac road at dusk, seen from inside one of them, with people walking along the verge under acaciasAn elephant crossing a dirt track in front of a line of stopped safari vehicles in dry savannaFour laden camels roped nose to tail crossing pale sand below a rock ridge, one man riding and one walking behind

Trans Afrique

The Afrinkong journey series

Don’t just cross Africa. Experience it with a team.

One continent. Many countries. One extraordinary journey.

KenyaUgandaRwandaTanzaniaZambiaZimbabweBotswanaNamibiaSouth Africa

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The idea

Africa is too large to be a destination.

Dakar to Mombasa is further than Lisbon to Kabul, and there are fifty-four countries in between. A week in one of them is a week in one of them — which is the right journey for most people most of the time, and it is what the rest of this site is for.

Africa, with the four Trans Afrique crossings drawn on it: the Continental Expedition running from Kenya to South Africa, East and South as lengths of that same road, and West along the Atlantic from Senegal to Ghana.A map of Africa with 4 crossings drawn on it. Trans Afrique — East runs 21 days through 4 countries: Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania. Trans Afrique — West runs 24 days through 6 countries: Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. Trans Afrique — South runs 21 days through 5 countries: South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia. Trans Afrique — The Continental Expedition runs 35 to 45 days through 9 countries: Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. The oceans either side are named, a compass rose gives north, and a scale bar gives distance in kilometres.
The four crossings, on the continent they cross.
A convoy of expedition vehicles on a tarmac road at dusk, seen from inside one of them, with a family walking along the verge under acacia trees

You don’t visit Africa. You move through it.

A crossing is the other answer. You travel by road, you wake up in a different country most weeks, and the continent changes slowly enough to watch it happen: the landscape first, then the language, then what is for sale at the roadside, then what is for dinner.

Why it has to be driven, what changes on the way, and why nobody assembles a month like this from home.

Why Trans Afrique→

In this series

  1. Why Trans AfriqueWhat a crossing is, why it has to be driven, and why nobody assembles one from home.
  2. The crossingsTwo roads and four crossings, drawn on Africa. East and South are lengths of the Continental Expedition rather than separate routes.
  3. Ways to travelThe same roads, run three ways: yours alone, ours with your dates, or a fixed departure with a fixed number of seats.
  4. Expedition supportSix disciplines, assembled per crossing. The route decides who travels.
  5. What the fee includesWhat Afrinkong earns, what Afrinkong arranges, and what stays yours. Set out before anything is held.

A crossing is a journey most people decide on long before they take it — start planning your journey.

A woman leaning out of a moving vehicle's window smiling at the camera, dry hills and grassland running away behind her

Ready to cross?

Where do you want Africa to take you?

Tell us how you want to travel, how long you have and what you want to be changed by. We will say which crossing fits, and what it costs, in writing before anything is held.

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