The Expedition Vehicles – Safari Truck

Evening campsite with safari truck and tents
Africa Overland Campsite

African Trails – Overland Safari Truck – Built for overlanding

We, and other overland companies we work with, operate our own vehicles from our safari workshops in Africa. Where all the trucks are serviced and maintained, enabling us to provide you with safe reliable transport. Most of our trucks are late model Scania and Mercedes Benz trucks with Euro 4 fuel efficient emissions and enviro-friendly motors with safety features such as ABS anti-lock braking and air-ride suspension for a much smoother ride.

The African tour trucks are fitted with comfortable inward and forward facing coach seats. A wide aisle gives you loads of leg room and lots of space to move around in, making the back of the truck a great place to socialise.

Vehicle design has evolved over the years to provide off the road driving and the most practical and comfortable vehicles for our African travel.

Our Safari trucks are equipped:

  • Tarpaulin, or windowed sides, providing all round viewing.
  • Most of the safari trucks have an additional elevated viewing platform at the front of the truck, offering great views and excellent photographic opportunities for game viewing of wild animals.
  • Lockers for your backpack, accessible from inside our safari truck; a communal safe for your valuables; and a medical kit for emergency use.
  • Interior lighting for reading, plus exterior lights for cooking on safari.
  • Amplifiers and attachments for personal CD players, so you can listen to your own music.
  • There is ample storage for food, enabling us to buy bulk along the way.
  • We carry over 200 litres of water for desert conditions.
  • Extra fuel tanks, for those long runs.
  • Cooking equipment and eating utensils.
  • Roomy, easy to erect dome tents.
  • Sit on camp stools on African tours and throw mats to relax on the sand in the Middle East.
  • Cooler boxes keep the drinks chilled.
  • Fire grills are used for BBQ’s with gas as a backup.
  • Camp tables for preparing meals on; under an all weather awning in case it rains.
african trails truck with tents and equiment
Overland Safari Truck with Equipment
Safari Truck – Great for getting to those out of the way places

An overland safari should be on everyone’s list. It’s  the best ways to see Africa. Many people return for a second trip.

Rugged, off the road, safari trucks to cross deserts and get off the beaten track.

Cross deserts and rivers – 30 weeks – Trans Africa London to Nairobi
Follow the Nile to the sea – 17 weeks – Cape Town to Cairo – Nile Expedition
Game parks and the wonder of Vic Falls – 21 days – Nairobi to Victoria Falls

safari truck in a wild area
Lunchtime, Northern Kenya

Sleeping on Safari

On overland safari is a camping trip.  You’ll be sleeping in two person dome tents, with a waterproof floor on a sponge mattress. The tents are easy to set up, only taking about 10 minutes to erect and 5 minutes to take down, though that’s after a few days practice

In a number of campsites you can upgrade to rooms. Most of nights you’ll be so tired after another new day that you’ll just fall asleep as your head hits the pillow, and yes, do bring a pillow.

The campsites are well equipped, supplying gallons of hot water and well kept ablution blocks. When the weather is hot the shower water may well be just ‘refreshingly cool’. With nearly all campsites being owner operated and managed, each has its own eclectic style. All the camps have bars and a cold beer handy at the end of a dusty drive.

The camps in the national parks are unfenced. So you might be sleeping near:  grunting hippos, lions coughing and roaring, elephants blowing air through their trunks and trumpeting while they walk very softly and whooping hyenas.