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Travel Diary - 2003
5 January | Senegal
22 January |Gambia
18 January |Guinea
9 February | Mali
22 February | Burkina Faso
3 March | Ghana
19 March | Togo
20 March | Benin
25 March | Niger
12 April | Chad
15 April | Cameroon
16 April | Nigeria
30 April | Congo
24 May | RDC
31 May | Angola
5 June | Namibia
27 June | South Africa
30 August | Lesotho
10 September | Swaziland
9 October | Botswana
17 October | Namibia
19 October |
Zambia
29 October | Malawi
4 November |Mozambique
16 November | Tanzania
12 December | Rwanda
16 December | RDC
18 December | Uganda
24 December | Kenya

Travel Diary - 2004
9 January | Ethiopia
6 February | Sudan
21 February | Saudi Arabia
23 February | Jordan
3 March | Syria
5 March | Turkey
12 March | Greece
21 March | ...And Home

 

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17 months, 43 countries, and 2 vehicles

Benin

Benin, Continued

As we drive North it's a relief to find that the air grows drier, and the nights cooler. We bush-camp south of Kandi and for the first time in a month I wake up snuggled under my duvet.

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Abomey, 24/03/03

Abomey is famous for being the centre of the great Kingdom of Dahomey, and the scale of the palaces here is quite something - even if they are just made out of mud. Like Oiuida (home of the ouija board), Dahomey is famous for its voodoo connections, and there is no doubt that the religion is quite active - throughout the night we hear tom-toms and the sound of all sorts of arcane ceremonies in progress.

However, the real reason for anybody to visit Abomey is to eat at the Cafeteria Bidossessi, home of Madam Brice who is undoubtedly the queen of street food, and who will whip you up a delicious meal for under fifty pence.

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Ouidah, 20/03/03

Seduced by a great beach, we find ourselves spending the night next to the Monument of No Return.

Our first shock on arriving was finding that the Truck, which we thought was a couple of days ahead of us, is here, and we catch up with John, Will, Sian and Kevin (who still has transparent legs after all this time) at the monument.

Thus far it's been an uneventful journey, what with no wheels falling off or anything.