Have you ever needed to wait for an overland convoy, anxiously completing endless paperwork and passport checks simply to continue your overland adventure?
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Today, there is no need to join a convoy to complete your trans-Africa overland adventure. The closest gathering of overlanders, in a very loose sense, is a convoy on the Wadi Halfa route. Twenty years ago, it was a very different story.
A convoy had transitted about six weeks before but nothing had happened since. Some people had been waiting the full time - Under African Skies
After four days of paper work we can join the convoy that will take us to Mauritania. It is an international group of travellers. Germans in a Unimog, Australians in a Land Rover, Spanish in an old Peugeot, Dutch in a very old VW bus and we on our Suzuki motorbikes - The Bike Brothers
What a fantastic experience the convoy was - Hujambo Africa
Welcome to The Atlantic overland route heading South through Western Sahara towards Mauritania.
It is worth noting that this was not the primary route South during the early 1990's, with majority of overlanders opting for the route South across Algeria and into Niger. It was, however, a route gaining popularity especially after Algeria closed its borders mid 1990's thus forcing overlanders to keep West along the Atlantic.
In this blog post, I highlight a decade of commentary on the route.
