Beaches & Jungles Of West Africa (TLW)

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Overview

34 days between Accra and Douala or vice versa...

Travel in West Africa is often challenging and you'll need a well-developed sense of adventure to overland through the region. Beginning on Ghana's coast you’ll head for Togo, where voodoo is still very much a way of life. Crossing this long, thin country to Benin you’ll stay in a stilt village, visit Ouidah, a poignant former slaving port, and explore Abomey, the former royal capital. It gets even more adventurous as you cross into Nigeria, visiting a wildlife reserve and heading up to the Jos Plateau. You’ll travel right the way across this African giant, skirting the edge of the Afi Mountains – home to drill monkeys, gorillas and chimpanzees – before crossing the border into Cameroon, overlanding through the rainforest on mud roads to Douala and the end of this epic trip.

 
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  • Trip Style: Overlanding
  • Comfort Zone Very basic / challenging
  • Physical Challenge Strenuous in parts

FactfileTour Code: TLW

  • Vehicle:

    Overland expedition vehicle.
  • Accommodation:

    Small local hotels, mainly campsites and wildcamps. (80% camping, 20% hotels)
  • Route: Accra to Douala or vice versa...
  • Crew:

    2 crew, local guides as necessary.
  • Extras: Pre and post trip accommodation and transfers

Next Departures

pdf download 10 Nov - 13 Dec 2012
Accra > Douala 		Available BOOK
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pdf download 19 Dec - 21 Jan 2013
Douala > Accra 		Available BOOK
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Whats Included?

Optional Activities

Benin

  • 2 nights to relax on Benin's Grand Popo Atlantic beaches, meeting the local fishermen

  • Afternoon visit to Ganvie, where fishermen live in stilt houses on a marine lagoon

  • 2 nights in Abomey, capital of the Dan Homey Kingdom with guided tour of Palace and Museum

Cameroon

  • Overland through some of the continent's most challenging roads in the jungles of Cameroon.

  • Time for some R&R on the black sand of the Atlantic beaches at Limbe

  • More R&R on the white sands of Kribi Beach

  • Explore Douala, Cameroon's most lively city.

Ghana

  • Relax on the beach at Keta

Nigeria

  • Big game safari in Yankari National Park, Nigeria's best wildlife reserve. Stay at the beautiful hot springs

  • 3 night stay at the Drill Ranch Monkey Conservation Project in the Afi Mountains

Togo

  • Discover voodoo, a religion firmly embedded in local culture, amongst the jungle-clad hills of Mount Klouto

  • R&R and watersports on the stunning lagoon of Lac Togo at Agbodrafo

  • Local pirogue dugout trip across Lac Togo to Togoville

  • Guided city tour of the voodoo centre of Togoville

  • Explore the capital city of Accra

  • Visit Akosombo Dam

  • Day's guided butterfly walking safari through forests of Mont Klouto

  • Discover the history of slavery at the Ouidah 'Route des Esclaves'

  • Visit Ouidah's museums

  • 'Snake' your way round the Temple des Serpents in Ouidah

  • Visit the Limbe wildlife centre to see the Drill monkeys and gorillas

Comments

Nigeria Contingency

You may already be aware that the British Foreign and Commonwealth office (FCO) are currently advising against all but essential travel to certain regions in Nigeria. This advice unfortunately includes Yankari National Park and Jos so for that reason we have therefore decided to not visit these places on this itinerary.

Please visit http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/sub-saharan-africa/nigeria for full advice on Nigeria.

Instead the itinerary will visit Pendjari National Park and the surrounding region in North Western Benin, known for its wildlife and is home to some of the last populations of big game like elephants, West African lions, hippopotamuses, buffalo and various antelopes in West Africa. The Park is also famous for its richness in birds.

If however in the meantime if the FCO advice changes its advice to all clear on travel to this region our itinerary will of course follow the scheduled route.

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