Africa Overland: An epic 12,000 kilometre backpacking trek from Cape Town to Cairo with two young children (Adventure Travel With Children) - Softcover

Finlay, Iain; Clark, Trish

9780994179319: Africa Overland: An epic 12,000 kilometre backpacking trek from Cape Town to Cairo with two young children (Adventure Travel With Children)

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ISBN 10: 0994179316 ISBN 13: 9780994179319

Publisher: High Adventure Publishing, 2017

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Capetown to Cairo! A magical phrase...the journey of a life-time. Around 12,000 kilometers, nine countries, four months on the road with nothing booked or arranged in advance. With their two children; Sean, aged eight and Zara nine, carrying their own back-packs and often sleeping in rough circumstances...like in the back of a truck laden with copper ingots or in mud huts... Iain, Trish and the kids get to see: Kruger National Park, civil war in Rhodesia, Victoria Falls and travel on the Chinese-built TanZam railway. Hitching up East Africa’s Great North Road, Iain is arrested by the army under suspicion of being a spy. They experience the vast herds of game in Serengetti, Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro Crater and Amboseli National Parks. In Ethiopia, they witness violent street protests in Addis Abbaba, but also see the source of the Blue Nile before travelling 200 klometers on a tractor, where they are also protected from bandits by rifle-toting mercenaries as they approach the Sudan border. From Khartoum they travel on ‘Kitchener’s Railway’ across the Nubian Desert to Wadi Halfa, to see Rameses II's great temple of Abu Simbel as well as those in Luxor and Karnak in the Nile Valley... finally reaching Cairo and the Pyramids. A fascinating glimpse of the history, politics, and way of life in Africa in the ‘seventies seen through the eyes of a young family making an incredible journey.

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Iain Finlay and Trish Clark ...have been journalists, foreign correspondents, radio and TV producers and presenters, as well as authors, for some fifty years. They have written several fiction and non-fiction works separately. and five jointly-written non-fiction works. Co-founders in 1985 of the internationally successful science program for television, Beyond 2000, they have travelled, lived and worked on every continent. In recent years they have travelled extensively in China, as well as South-East and Central Asia, worked as volunteers for an Australian aid agency in Hanoi, with the English service of The Voice of Viet Nam Radio, helping broadcasters there improve their English language programming. Since 2012 they have built a road and drainage system to three remote villages in northern Laos, as well as building a primary school for one of the villages. They are currently helping villagers in the same district set up several efficient pig-farming arrangements as cash crop ventures for their communities, as well as planning a dormitory to enable 60 children to attend a middle-school that would otherwise be too far from their home village. They have shared life together since 1965, have children and grandchildren and, when not traveling, live in Australia on the far north coast of New South Wales.

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