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Overland West Africa: A Realistic Guide To The Coastal Route
Lagos to Dakar by road is entirely possible. It is also slower, cheaper and more paperwork-heavy than any blog will tell you.
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Overland West Africa: A Realistic Guide To The Coastal Route
Lagos to Dakar by road is entirely possible. It is also slower, cheaper and more paperwork-heavy than any blog will tell you.
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PINCHED Adventure covers African travel the way it is actually done: overland, on foot, by ferry, with someone local who has made the trip a hundred times. We report destinations, festivals, holidays and events across the continent — with the logistics, costs and seasons that make a trip real.
Expect route notes, honest hotel and resort verdicts, food-and-travel reporting, road trips, nature, hidden gems and weekend escapes within reach of Lagos, Accra, Nairobi, Cape Town and Kigali.
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