This road-trip, spanning 40,000 km and 18 countries, will begin in Cape Town, South Africa, in December 2009. It will reach the northern border of Sudan by April 2010, and will culminate back in South Africa for the FIFA World Cup in July 2010. Besides visiting dozens of World Heritage sites and the most striking National Parks worldwide, our accessibility to remote areas off the beaten path will ensure that we will capture stories nested in the heart of Africa. UPDATE: Since we began planning in Cape Town many signs pointed to an important itinerary change. Due to the weather patterns in the east versus the west, our initial route (shown below) would have taken us into Mozambique first, in the middle of its rainy season. Parks would have been flooded and closed. So we have opted to begin with the reverse route, going North through Namibia (during its dry and extremely hot season). While the heat has been bordering levels of tolerance it is much better than the rain. Please interpret the information below in reverse order. I will post a new actual itinerary during our next internet connection. Preliminary Itinerary:

Month	Countries	Highlights
December 2009	Angola, Namibia, South Africa	Etosha NP, Namib desert, Namaqualand,Cape region
January 2010	Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana	Southern Angola, Caprivi, Victoria Falls, Okavango Delta
February 2010	Tanzania, Kenya	Dar es Salam, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Kenya coast, Mt Kilimanjaro, Amboseli NP, Mt Kenya
March 2010	Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Egypt	Axum, Red Sea, Khartoum, Nuba Mountains. Upper Nile river Valley
April 2010	Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda	Khartoum, Nile river, Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Kisumu, Lake Victoria
May 2010	Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania	Lake Victoria, Gorilla Mountains, Lake Tanganika, Ngorongoro, Serengueti
June 2010	Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya	Lake Malawi, Kasungu,
July 2010	South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique	Cape Peninsula, Karoo, Zululand, Kruger NP, Gorongosa NP, Mozambique coast

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