Ride with me across Africa in 2012… Big Adventure!

Have your own Long Way Down with me next August / Sept 2012 and have the ride of a lifetime from Cape Town to Victoria Falls and onward into east Africa, Malawi, Mozambique and SA.  Our trip earlier this year was fantastic – and there are lots of riders blogging about what an amazing time we all had.  Mica, from the USA was one of about 25 who joined our Cape Town to Victoria Falls trip. With nice helmet cam and digital camera, he’s crafted some pretty cool pieces and also ran a trip blog.You can check out the video here http://youtu.be/p4GTmh91tRE and the blog account here http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=725446.  Another couple of riders created youtube bits – here are a few:

We enjoyed the life on the road and stayed in some awesome lodges – sometimes way out in the desert or on the banks of the Zambezi river and some right in the swamps – surrounded by crocodile and hippo. 

The wildlife is always amazing.  We were chased last year for a whole evening by bull elephants so we were pretty excited to be back in that area – the Caprivi strip!  Again we visited ‘Joe’ the Crocodile Dundee of Zambia – were we were given a great opportunity to hold some baby crocs and stroke a 15ft man-eater!

Working with our partners “Moto Aventures“, a highly experienced motorcycle adventure company (Su and Jon) we all had an absolutely amazing time and now we are bringing you the chance to ride this epic adventure in 2012.  Cape Town to Victoria Falls – or from Victoria Falls onward into East Africa, Malawi and Mozambique, before heading inland back into South Africa – or even join us for both!

The 2012 trip starts in August and will cover around 5,000 kilometres and 3 countries,  in 16 days through Africa’s most amazing countryside.  Across open plains, through dense bush-land, rain forest and barren desert – this is a truly awesome journey, the first leg ending in Zambia in September.

The second leg starts just a few days after and heads across to the east coast of Africa covering, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and then down the East coast back into South Africa.  The trip uses BMW bikes – a combination of GS 1200 Adventures, standard GS 1200′s and an option for the GS 650. Nobbly tyres and Garmin Zumo GPS’s and we’re off.  We will also have room this year for partners or family who would rather be in one of the support vehicles. This means that they can get ahead of the riders and laze at the pool till the riders get in.

If you want to come – dont worry if you think it’s too hard – it’s certainly not an enduro – it’s sometimes challenging, but well within the reach of most riders. As part of the price we also include a two day off road course prior to the trip with the famous Dakar legend himself Simon Pavey.  A great way to build your bike skills and meet other members of the trip – and Charley, Billy and Simon of course.

To find out more – straight from Charley, go to here. Or go right to Moto Aventures for the itinerary and booking here!