Nairobi to Cairo, Nile & Gorillas 11 Weeks
Week 1: Kenya
Week 2-3: Uganda Mountain Gorillas
Week 4: Kenya, Mt Kenya, Northern Kenya
Week 5-6: Ethiopia
Week 7-8 Somaliland & Djibouti
Week 10-11: Egypt – Cairo – Pyramids & Sphinx
What’s also included
On this incredible tour to Cairo you will experience an unusual range of African culture, geography and climate covering 6,000 kilometers by road.
On this African adventure you will visit Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt, Lake Naivasha, Mount Kenya, Northern Frontier District in Kenya and Lake Nasser Ferry.
Highlights
Kenyan wildlife, Mountains of Ethiopia, Rivers of the Nile, Blue Nile and White Nile joining, the Deserts of Sudan and Ancient Egypt.
The important bit
This tour to Cairo is different from our other departures and other holidays you may have taken – we go through areas where no tourists go, the roads can be bad, food can be limited to what we have stocked on the truck, campsites are few and basic, visas can be hard to get and communication to the outside world limited or unavailable at times. On this tour to Cairo we guarantee; we’ll break down, that we will have to wait some where we don’t really want to be for visas spare parts or just for someone to open a closed road and we’ll have to dig the truck out of mud and sand. The trip might overrun so finish late; the route can change due to rains, closed roads visa issues, breakdowns and politics. It’s best not to book your return flights home until you finish the trip.
To join this African adventure from Nairobi to Cairo you need to be prepared to work as part of a team and to share with the others on the trip. Some of the things you’ll never forget are the satisfaction of getting a 16 ton truck unstuck, cooking over open fires after collecting the firewood, pitching a tent and getting it right even when it rains, going to sleep when its dark and waking at dawn and wanting to get out of your sleeping bag to start another day in which you have no idea of what will happen, washing in rivers, not washing and not caring that your dirty, living outside for months, seeing more than you have ever before, trying to learn French Arabic or Swahili and having people understand what you say, finding out just how far places are away from where you started and how different places can be and how unaffected out of the way places are from the world we normally live in. Most people who do this tour to Cairo find it a lot of fun though of course hard at times.
Included
- Transport on expedition truck with crew
- Two meals per day cooked as a group, on average
- Camping fees & equipment: tents, tables, chairs & cooking gear
Excluded
- Flights, visas, transfers, personal insurance, drinks, meals out, tips
- Optional excursions/side trips
Side trips / Optional extras
| Trip/extra | Cost |
|---|---|
| Ethiopia – Bahir Dar – Tissisat Falls $20, Lake Tana monasteries $20, boat trip $40, Gondar Monastery & Fasilidas Castles $25, Lalibela Rock Churches $55, Historical route to Axum $200, Simien Mountain Trek $60 | USD $0 |
| Egypt – Red Sea Coast – Diving $70, Boat cruise $20, Red Sea Monasteries $10 | USD $70 |
| Sudan – National Museum, Khartoum, Meroe Pyramids $20, Sail on the Nile $15 | USD $6 |
| Egypt – Alexandria on the Mediterranean; day trip, lunch, entrances | USD $100 |
| Egypt – Luxor – Balloon Flight Luxor $90, Karnak Temple $14, Luxor Temple $11, Luxor Museum $17 Karnak Sound & Light Show $15, Tutankhamen tomb $15, Valley of the Kings & Workers Tour, entry & guide $35 | USD $0 |
| Egypt – Cairo – 4 Star Nile Dinner Cruise $30, Cairo Tower $13, Pyramids at Giza pyramid entry $7-35, Giza Pyramids Sound & Light Show $35, Egyptian Museum $15, Mummy Room in Egyptian Museum $15, Solar Boat Museum at Giza Pyramids $10 | USD $10 |
| Egypt – Aswan to Luxor 3 Day 2 nights Felucca Trip Sailing Down the Nile | USD $50 |
Departure Dates
View all the dates for this tour on the departure dates page.