Cape to Cairo | Crossing the African Continent

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Explore the Cape to Cairo railway, a legendary route that goes from Cape Town, South Africa to Cairo, Egypt- or is supposed to, anyway. Join Bright Trip Creator and native South African, Driaan Louw, as he explores the story of how this idea first came to be and why this route still doesn’t exist by rail or by road (despite numerous attempts to construct it over the past century). This is a tale of conflict, colonialism, and a crazy, rich boy called Cecil Rhodes. Learn more about Bright Trip at brighttrip.com/courses
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@MohammedMuaawia
@MohammedMuaawia Жыл бұрын
Some African in person reporting here! I can confirm that the Wadi Halfa to Aswan ferry is running as of december '22, but it might not the most convenient way to do the trip. Most people travelling between Sudan and Egypt will take the bus, infact there are direct routes from Khartoum all the way to Cairo and even Alexandria. Hope this is valuable to anyone who wants to attempt this insane feat.
@user-ss6co6vj5f
@user-ss6co6vj5f Жыл бұрын
It is not point of that video. The real topic of video - about "only Railway" option in "Cape to Cairo" line. What's why - he was still looked on train option.
@stickynorth
@stickynorth Жыл бұрын
Africa needs more inter-continental transport links to really succeed. Glad to see them make tremendous progress as of late!
@champan250
@champan250 Жыл бұрын
We call it the Chinese debt trap diplomacy for any infrastructure construction projects in the continent and is not permitted under US and NATO foreign policy goals
@NEPATransitnTravel
@NEPATransitnTravel Жыл бұрын
Passenger rail link the entire route is what’s really needed.
@licioussamuels
@licioussamuels Жыл бұрын
You mean interstate?
@qassimyusufu6910
@qassimyusufu6910 Жыл бұрын
@@champan250 that is 0
@nairobinyeusi5811
@nairobinyeusi5811 Жыл бұрын
Only Europe has inter continental transport links Africa, Asia & South America barely have any due to their massive continental size & Geographical barriers. Africa is not a tiny continent like Europe. The DRC alone is almost as big as Europe.
@lylerb9168
@lylerb9168 Жыл бұрын
I did the inverse in 2018, from Cairo back to Cape Town. Used the train from Alexandria to Aswan, I used a ferry to Sudan I only used rail again in Khartoum unfortunately only started to use rail again when I got to Kenya and then from Mombasa took a bus to Dar Es Salaam. From Dar Es I took the Tazara rail from Tanz to Kapiri Mposhi and then took a train in Bulawayo and then had to take busses inbetween would have been so cool to do it all with a train
@PPKFilms
@PPKFilms Жыл бұрын
And now i kinda wanna do a cape to cairo... I do blame you, just so you know.
@driaan_louw
@driaan_louw Жыл бұрын
I'm a bad influence!
@andrewyoung1904
@andrewyoung1904 Жыл бұрын
do it. i did cairo(alexandria in fact) to cape town in 2019 just make sure you take enough hard western money into sudan and zimbabwe. and accept shit toilets...
@joshuaokoroze4534
@joshuaokoroze4534 Жыл бұрын
@@driaan_louw email? , My profile picture is actually at landsdowne Capetown
@randomvintagefilm273
@randomvintagefilm273 Жыл бұрын
My family went on this trip in 1973 and ending in South Africa where we stayed 3 years. So glad my dad took 1000's of photos.
@petersilas4234
@petersilas4234 Жыл бұрын
There is now a highway from Capetown to Cairo ,tarmac all weather road through Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia.
@delaneyfoster8760
@delaneyfoster8760 Жыл бұрын
Elon Musk is a 🙌 legend 🙌 Cecil Rhodes is a piece of 💩 that's all I'm going say on that🤫
@joegrey9807
@joegrey9807 Жыл бұрын
A long time in coming .. I did the 'death road' from Isiolo to Moyale sat on the roof bars of a cattle truck on the corrugated track back in the 90s. That's an experience I've no intention of repeating!
@eacoincmubiru5894
@eacoincmubiru5894 Жыл бұрын
@@joegrey9807 I can assure you if you try again you will be shocked; the road is now TARMACKED. unbelievable.
@joegrey9807
@joegrey9807 Жыл бұрын
@@eacoincmubiru5894 yes, that must make trade and transport so much better! Brilliant news!
@cliffwoodbury5319
@cliffwoodbury5319 Жыл бұрын
The trans-African highway needs to connect at places it stops and there should be a middle highway in the Sahara
@privaterizk4936
@privaterizk4936 Жыл бұрын
It's a blessing that I found this channel. I'm not really a traveler person. But I like to see, to know, to understand the world and its system. Subscribed.
@MS-dp2qg
@MS-dp2qg Жыл бұрын
Bro I work in Logistics last time I was sending trucks in Moyale Kenyan-Ethiopian boarder. Ethiopian doesn't allow foreigner trucks to load in Ethiopia but I'm pretty sure the road is safe all the way to adisabeba. I don't know how is the journey from Adis abeba to Cairo but the journey from Adis abeba to Cape town is pretty safe. I normally send truck from Lusaka Zambia to Nairobi the road is very safe and in good condition and I know many guys who do Lusaka-Johanesburg or Lusaka-Durban by Zimbabwe or Bostwana by Bostwana,they used to use a ferry but now there is brand new bridge in Kazungula. So the road from Adis abeba all the way to Capetown is in good condition by driving. I will advise not to drive during the night. Instead of passing through Ethiopia then passing on the left through Uganda then South Sudan then Sudan. I know you can drive from Kampala to Juba but I don't know the condition from Juba to Khartoum. I know a guy who has attempt to do the half of the journey(the Nile route from Rwanda to Egypte) by foot. One of his partner died of heatstroke in Ugandan Savana but he reached Cairo at the end. There is many people who cross Africa with cars even from Morocco to SA
@andrewmcgarrity5388
@andrewmcgarrity5388 Жыл бұрын
Definitely adding this to my bucket list.
@mhdibm7515
@mhdibm7515 Жыл бұрын
I am sudanese and i didn't know these lines existed lol
@oscarmmari5061
@oscarmmari5061 Жыл бұрын
There is a railway operating between Dar es Salaam and Arusha, and there is a railway from Arusha to Mombasa (not functional) but under renovation.
@amosicronery7730
@amosicronery7730 Жыл бұрын
No need to go to Dar es Salaam, unless you want to. You can go Nairobi-Arusha-Dodoma-Iringa-Mbeya-Tunduma cross to Zambia.
@threadistrue
@threadistrue Жыл бұрын
I just watched the whole video on Bright Trip. Man, sooo good!!
@BrightTripTravel
@BrightTripTravel Жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, watch the whole thing!! www.brighttrip.com/videos/why-there-is-no-cape-to-cairo
@jordymcneill
@jordymcneill Жыл бұрын
Amazing work per usual 🤩
@arailway8809
@arailway8809 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the deep research on this. Africa needs trains, big time.
@piloadami_
@piloadami_ Жыл бұрын
Loving the Zimbabwean influence on the last tune! Great content and editing too
@JoelRipke
@JoelRipke Жыл бұрын
Loving this
@demorbe-official
@demorbe-official Жыл бұрын
Great work here. i discovered your channel through Johnny Harris he shared this link on his community tab. it landed me here. i loved your works you story line is jhus amazing. being African what you talking about makes sense. we really need a inter continental transport route
@williamrockwell9001
@williamrockwell9001 Жыл бұрын
Trip of a lifetime? Africa is huge. That trip seems like it would take a lifetime.
@beatrizcascelli
@beatrizcascelli Жыл бұрын
LOVED IT!
@r..a8680
@r..a8680 Жыл бұрын
There is a trans-African highway from Mombasa in Kenya to Lagos in Nigeria. And there is a lot more infrastructure in Africa than what was left by the colonialists.
@melby6512
@melby6512 Жыл бұрын
I was about to say that
@clemente111
@clemente111 Жыл бұрын
You forgot about Nairobi to Nanyuki(north central kenya) railway using the old lunatic express.
@likatalikata3823
@likatalikata3823 Жыл бұрын
True. There is a northern bound functional passenger railway service past Nairobi. Just that not many people know about it but its beautiful with views of snow peaked mount Kenya.
@neiltravels
@neiltravels Жыл бұрын
As of May 2023 there are no long distance passenger trains operating in South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe or Namibia, and Sudan is in a state of war. There were already gaps in the route before 2020, but currently Cape to Cairo by trains is not feasible.
@AuthenticTraveling
@AuthenticTraveling Жыл бұрын
This is definitely possible and I wouldn’t even say that hard. I’ve done it in broken chunks through way worse conditions and routes than that mostly train trip. Overland I would go Zimbabwe, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt. All quite safe countries compared to neighbors
@FlanPoirot
@FlanPoirot Жыл бұрын
africa rn is pretty hard to going from the southern most point to the northern most bc not bc it's impossible but bc infrastructure is shit, conditions aren't great and conflicts (pirates, terrorists, illegal shit). I'm sure there are some safe routes u can find, but u can't just up and go like in say the european union
@joegrey9807
@joegrey9807 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, it's not as difficult as people make out. Locals still have to get about so there's transport. Main constraints are closed borders. I managed to get through Eritrea - Ethiopia in the very brief window when the border was open in the mid 90s. Now I think it's via Sudan.
@joegrey9807
@joegrey9807 Жыл бұрын
@@FlanPoirot as far as I'm aware the classic 'eastern' overland route is ok.
@amosicronery7730
@amosicronery7730 Жыл бұрын
Welcome
@DanielsimsSteiner
@DanielsimsSteiner Жыл бұрын
This is so good
@banerjeesiddharth05
@banerjeesiddharth05 Жыл бұрын
Very nice documentary 👌 👍 👏
@nazeerahmedsonday5071
@nazeerahmedsonday5071 Жыл бұрын
Take a bicycle with and you will get there and have beautiful vistas, foods and conversations!
@danielkrenzer2651
@danielkrenzer2651 Жыл бұрын
Awesome Dri, I am inspired. Though just doing Muizenberg to Woodstock train journey is pretty intense.
@driaan_louw
@driaan_louw Жыл бұрын
Lol exactly, impossible journey
@FelexAndVirginia
@FelexAndVirginia Жыл бұрын
Hello bright trip actually there's a extra train (old British railway 🛤) 🚉 from Nairobi to kisumu i feel you left that out
@zyetta
@zyetta Жыл бұрын
Driaan! Very awesome work, bud!
@driaan_louw
@driaan_louw Жыл бұрын
Dankie bra!
@nicholaskelly1958
@nicholaskelly1958 Жыл бұрын
In 1980 I went to Sudan. In those days you could get to Juba! Also you could use the Nile steamers In the 1950's a combination of of river and lake steamers along with a few short bus connections made it relatively easy. A friend of mine father did the Journey in 1950. The high point for him was the ship across Lake Albert the SS Robert Coryndon Both Earnest Hemmingway and Sir Winston Churchill used her! With the latter noting that she had "The Best Library Afloat!"
@android-dread
@android-dread Жыл бұрын
Groovy - Are you ganna do it - Cape to Cairo by train !! - I want to film it !!
@uhleka
@uhleka Жыл бұрын
What about mentioning the gravy train?
@WorldDoorStep
@WorldDoorStep Жыл бұрын
Dope video. I’ve never been to Africa but I’m planning on doing an overland tour later this year
@nathanngumi8467
@nathanngumi8467 Жыл бұрын
Very interesting...
@AdmireM
@AdmireM Жыл бұрын
That outro music is beautiful, sounds so Zimbabwean 🇿🇼🇿🇼🎶🎶
@perifule
@perifule Жыл бұрын
Does it count to have done Alexandria to Abu Simbel and then Cape to Khartoum all in the same year (2009)? No trains though, except one across northern Mozambique.
@fecalmatter4195
@fecalmatter4195 Жыл бұрын
Corruption seems to be a problem everywhere
@co7013
@co7013 Жыл бұрын
I know someone who did it north to south in the seventies. Quite an adventure for a young woman by herself.
@ibrahimshuaibumachika5998
@ibrahimshuaibumachika5998 Жыл бұрын
Africa needs at least two to three rail network from South Africa to north Africa and Europe to enhance trade,tourism bwt the 2 continents. There is need for another separate three rail network from Middle East to connect Africa thereby enhancing spiritual tourism and trade. Both the lines would bring out the African landlocked Countries and at the same time reduce stresses on roads network in Africa.
@rafaelabreu2873
@rafaelabreu2873 Жыл бұрын
The contemporary Portuguese project : "pink map" / "mapa cor de rosa", that intended to connect Angola and Mozambique, Indic and South Atlantic, was a more realistic one. Unfortunately the two colonial powers collided resulting in the British ultimatum to Portugal and consequently the fall of the Portuguese monarchy. Something that is a stain in the oldest alliance between Portugal and England (Treaty of Windsor) .
@roykanyi
@roykanyi Жыл бұрын
Hi I'm Kenyan We have 2 types of trains here. The one from Mombasa to Nairobi is the SGR Then we have another to Kamapala MGR. But that gets up to the Kenyan boarder. Not sure about the Ugandan side.
@likatalikata3823
@likatalikata3823 Жыл бұрын
They are curently working on rehabilitating the Ugandan side. By December 2023 we should be having passenger rail services between Kenya and Uganda as far north as Gulu. Problem is south Sudan (practical dead end). Hopefully one day Kenya's SGR makes its way to Kampala and beyond...that will be the game changer in East African rail travel.
@helencrafford2616
@helencrafford2616 Жыл бұрын
Please do a video of cape town map explained
@sms1511
@sms1511 Жыл бұрын
I am going from Cairo to Khartoum mostly by rail in a few weeks. From Cairo to Aswan is easy as well as from wadi Halfa to Khartoum, just need to cross the lake Nubia by ferry and I know many people who have done that. I dont think the “gap” between Nairobi to Khartoum is that challenging if you are ok with taking buses and cars through Kenya, Ethiopia and Sudan. I plan to do it with other female African travellers like myself so if we can do it anyone can. You have to aware of safety of course but its doable.
@Chronicles_Unearthed
@Chronicles_Unearthed Жыл бұрын
Good video I like it
@issacmaw3344
@issacmaw3344 Жыл бұрын
Took the train from Cairo to Aswan in 2014. Take a spare towel that you would like to throw away. The first class seats were so black from grime it was tough to sit on for 20 odd hours. Hopefully they have changed the carriages because those haven't been cleaned in years.
@timthehistorian
@timthehistorian Жыл бұрын
You ought to talk about the Hippie trail and how absurd it would be to try it today.
@ProjectResident
@ProjectResident Жыл бұрын
Interesting 🤔
@joshuaokoroze4534
@joshuaokoroze4534 Жыл бұрын
Lova your content! I'm very interested in all things travel and exploring Africa. Been to Capetown x3 in the last 4 years. I would love to link up with you to explore movement across Africa for Africans. It's a shame Africans cannot enjoy Thier continent
@nairobinyeusi5811
@nairobinyeusi5811 Жыл бұрын
Most of that route is safe & one can easily drive by road from cape town to Addis Ababa. The road is also in good condition. The only issue is crossing from Ethiopia to Sudan into Egypt. But one can also travel through Uganda to Juba then into Khartoum direct to cape town.
@sms1511
@sms1511 Жыл бұрын
Crossing from Ethiopia into Sudan and then Egypt isnt an issue either, there are highways connecting all of them. You just have to have the paperwork ready and plan accomidations of course.
@nicolaasl
@nicolaasl Жыл бұрын
I have doen this up TO Dar but i did not go the Mozambique i did Botswana
@erminpajazetovic9506
@erminpajazetovic9506 Жыл бұрын
I looovee your maps what software do you use for mapping
@BrightTripTravel
@BrightTripTravel Жыл бұрын
If we tell you, will you subscribe ;) J/K GEOlayers is what we use.
@erminpajazetovic9506
@erminpajazetovic9506 Жыл бұрын
@@BrightTripTravel okk i will sub
@likatalikata3823
@likatalikata3823 Жыл бұрын
There is a passenger line between Nairobi and Nanyuki. Views of central Kenya and the snow peak of mount Kenya. It ends close to the middle of Kenya. Hopefully one day it will connect to Ethiopia.
@philodaniell9096
@philodaniell9096 Жыл бұрын
You can get from nairobi to Ethiopia by road and its actually very easy and very good.
@ismailucar20
@ismailucar20 Жыл бұрын
How is it an unfortunate thing to walk on the bridge by victoria falls? 04:54
@francismadoshi8529
@francismadoshi8529 10 ай бұрын
You can travel by fail from cape town SA to Gulu. In Uganda by rail. Gulu is on the border of Uganda and South Sudan. Soin order to reach Cairo therefore you have only a short distance to cover i e South Sudan to.Egypt..
@AmeenRidwan
@AmeenRidwan Жыл бұрын
Trains? 😅 I live in Nigeria and I'm pretty sure that trains basically don't work here at all. I've only ever heard of someone taking a train once in my life and that was ten years ago, and he even said that the train stopped functioning a few months after his travel. Sadly, Nobody here thinks about trains when they want to go anywhere
@leef7872
@leef7872 Жыл бұрын
The Chinese have been building railways around Africa.
@AmeenRidwan
@AmeenRidwan Жыл бұрын
@@leef7872 doesn't change anything about what I said though
@leef7872
@leef7872 Жыл бұрын
@@AmeenRidwan it wasn't supposed to change what you said. Its letting you know that what you said is going to change. The lack of modern infrastructure is going to be a thing of the past over the next couple decades
@AmeenRidwan
@AmeenRidwan Жыл бұрын
@@leef7872 if corruption doesn't get in the way too much, of course
@GoldenBoyDims
@GoldenBoyDims Жыл бұрын
Are you from Lagos? There is a direct train to Ibadan that is very reliable that I always use there is also the new train that was built from cms to badagry side
@tijmenwillard2337
@tijmenwillard2337 Жыл бұрын
So the two gaps are basically a (relatively) small one between Tanzania and Kenya and then a larger one between Uganda and Sudan/Kenya and Sudan
@bnargacu1291
@bnargacu1291 Жыл бұрын
The train route I dream about every day is Mombasa to Lagos. There is a lot of trade opportunities to make it viable.
@umojapress2857
@umojapress2857 Жыл бұрын
That makes sense. It would open up central and west africa
@Biobele
@Biobele Жыл бұрын
Nice video but You can actually make the cape to Cairo journey by Car 🚗 or bus 🚌 or motorcycle 🏍 or plane ✈️ many people have done it.
@KoketsoR7
@KoketsoR7 Жыл бұрын
Rhoades was like elon musk, In what world boy???
@AAED-NPO
@AAED-NPO Жыл бұрын
How long will the Cape-Cairo train journey take?
@avus-kw2f213
@avus-kw2f213 Жыл бұрын
4 years 3 months & 2 weeks With 15 million dead
@lebo3793
@lebo3793 Жыл бұрын
We already struggling with rail theft in South Africa
@mimilouw9886
@mimilouw9886 Жыл бұрын
Super interesting 🚂 Africa needs accessible and SAFE public transport! How do I tag all the appropriate governments 😂?! I live here so no one come for me.
@user-ed9so2rb4k
@user-ed9so2rb4k 3 ай бұрын
I thought a Cairo Lagos passenger-cum-freight rail link can make a lot of sense as it will shorten the journey between these 2 important economic centers in Africa.
@user-vo8ss2bm3p
@user-vo8ss2bm3p Жыл бұрын
Why not Port Elizabeth to Tangier?
@UserDontiAS
@UserDontiAS Жыл бұрын
Enkosi 🙏
@sabbob574
@sabbob574 Жыл бұрын
Actually there train operating in Tanzania up to Arusha boder to Kenya.
@rory7248
@rory7248 Жыл бұрын
You gonna do it?
@eliasalekai3626
@eliasalekai3626 Жыл бұрын
Tanzania is building a rail to rwanda burundi congo and uganda
@MrBoliao98
@MrBoliao98 Жыл бұрын
I thought there was some kind of rail from Nairobi to Kisumu?
@ianhomerpura8937
@ianhomerpura8937 Жыл бұрын
Are you talking about the Meter Gauge Railway? If I remember correctly they're operating only freight.
@MrBoliao98
@MrBoliao98 Жыл бұрын
@@ianhomerpura8937 why aren't they using it? Just rehabilitate and use a metre gauge, Malaysia does it.
@eacoincmubiru5894
@eacoincmubiru5894 Жыл бұрын
The meter gauge rail is operational for both passengers and freight.
@ianhomerpura8937
@ianhomerpura8937 Жыл бұрын
@@eacoincmubiru5894 thank you for the update. They have not updated the info on Wikipedia yet.
@burgison4032
@burgison4032 Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately the Zimbabwean trains are not running anymore ever since Covid. Only local trains from Harare are running, the four national lines are put on halt without a prospect of restart at the moment. Beautiful videography regardless
@davidbarina7598
@davidbarina7598 6 ай бұрын
we need top of Africa to bottom of Africa all by buss route possible
@studiodjjnb9742
@studiodjjnb9742 10 ай бұрын
But to transport wat exactly?🤔
@muktiprateekdas9769
@muktiprateekdas9769 Жыл бұрын
If it was for cargo trains with multiple industrial complex around it then it would have been a great way for trade with in Africa right now it's a big pile of debt
@desertstormer7556
@desertstormer7556 Жыл бұрын
People in Africa seem to be abandoned by explorers and left to DIY everything
@nairobinyeusi5811
@nairobinyeusi5811 Жыл бұрын
Which people. Don't talk about Africa if you don't live in Africa nanii
@galekeoma7276
@galekeoma7276 Жыл бұрын
Progress in Africa is like progress made in a morbidly obese person’s weight loss journey. The difference in the 1st year is not especially noticeable because going from morbidly obese to slightly less morbidly obese would probably not be noticed by anyone except for those who see that person every day. The real difference comes after 1-4 years of weight loss and exercise. Turn those years to decades, and you get a similar story with Africa. It will likely be another 30 years before Africa looks anything like even the poorest of the EU’s members.
@shareeve7597
@shareeve7597 Жыл бұрын
They gonna steal the railway
@benjicohn
@benjicohn Жыл бұрын
Who else is here because of Johnny Harris
@PrincessVelaryon
@PrincessVelaryon Жыл бұрын
I'm amazed at how many China built rails there are in the continent
@ianhomerpura8937
@ianhomerpura8937 Жыл бұрын
The TAZARA being the first one.
@nairobinyeusi5811
@nairobinyeusi5811 Жыл бұрын
You'd be more amazed to learn that the entire American railway system was built by the Chinese. Ironically they fail to mention that often 😂😂
@denzzlinga
@denzzlinga Жыл бұрын
Africa will never have an interconnected railway network. Due to historic reasons, they will be stuck with multiple networks of different gauges in different parts of africa. The southern third uses 1067mm gauge, whilt the states north to the sahara desert use standard gauge, and everything beween istn´t interconnected and are just seperate lines that use various different gauges. The chinese prefer to build with standard gauge.
@saadaq2005
@saadaq2005 Жыл бұрын
Why you divide somalia and make part of ethopia?
@avus-kw2f213
@avus-kw2f213 Жыл бұрын
It’s ironic the Germans could build a railway from Berlin Baghdad but Cecil could not Cairo to Cape Town (Chancellor…………)
@jcwasheregt
@jcwasheregt Жыл бұрын
Interesting how you can't cross the Americas by train, but you can kind of get most of Eastern Africa by train! 🧐
@gabrielmachadobsb
@gabrielmachadobsb Жыл бұрын
That's because the US government automobile industry actively fought against and sabotage the development of rail lines in most of Latin America during the 20th century
@nairobinyeusi5811
@nairobinyeusi5811 Жыл бұрын
😂😂Yet the imbecile is talking as if every other continent is connected by Rail except Africa. Only Europe has a continental Railway system. Asia, the Americas & Africa don't.
@stekra3159
@stekra3159 Жыл бұрын
I sea border trafers in rail ways suck as much in Africa as they suck in Europe.
@Indian2.5
@Indian2.5 Жыл бұрын
Johnny Harris 🙏
@MrJohhnycongo
@MrJohhnycongo 3 ай бұрын
Africa as the Last Continent to be developed suffers handicaps! Unfortunately!
@BrightTripTravel
@BrightTripTravel 3 ай бұрын
So much potential!!
@wolly4u
@wolly4u Жыл бұрын
I just came back from Zambia. Transport in Africa is a big problem and also a big business. Trains are outdated and if they are going they are overcrowded with all kinds of people and animals. The most common and acceptable way for foreigners is to travel in buses. You have the choice between a cheap mini-bus (26 people in a 14 seater!) or the more expensive travel buses which are way more comfortable than all the other options (except planes). The question is not to get somewhere but much more how! What you definitely need is time to do it. Africans don’t know anything about time! They have all the time of the world… Entering Africa is a different universe where normal conditions don’t exist. Take it or leave it, you cannot change anything there.
@glendryhurst8234
@glendryhurst8234 7 ай бұрын
It should be Cape to Alexandria
@BrightTripTravel
@BrightTripTravel 7 ай бұрын
But it doesn't alliterate! 🙄 😆
@millie8311
@millie8311 Жыл бұрын
Looks like China has to come and build such route politicians can't even do tourism
@leef7872
@leef7872 Жыл бұрын
The continent of Africa has a bright future. There are new leaders arising with plans on bringing the continent together. Instead of a bunch of small countries a more united Africa. The colonizers divided Africa into a bunch of small countries to keep them from ever becoming a super power. In the past every time a new leader will step up with plans to Unite Africa, War breaks out and the Europeans are always involved. China has been building railways, ports, dams, power sects ,and other infrastructure. It's sad that the Europeans continue to prioritize Colonizing Africa. Throughout history all they did was destabilize. So far it seems china isn't getting involved in African relations and politics. Although that can always change.
@charlethemagne5466
@charlethemagne5466 Жыл бұрын
How do europeans "prioritise colonisation"? They aren't colonising anyone in the modern day stop spreading blatant lies.
@i_likemen5614
@i_likemen5614 Жыл бұрын
​@@charlethemagne5466 Europeans still partake in Neo-colonialism
@i_likemen5614
@i_likemen5614 Жыл бұрын
It seems like China is more interested in making more allies/trading partners than colonies (makes sense though China's geography and resources is amazing)
@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791
@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791 Жыл бұрын
Trains are where it's at. Don't bother with stinky cars
@FeliussRexx
@FeliussRexx Жыл бұрын
It is too bad that you can't use the pre- colonial infrastructure.
@greatdamzi
@greatdamzi Жыл бұрын
As a Pan-Africanist I do not appreciate how this guy portrays Africa. While many KZfaqrs are trying to promote the continent, I have no idea what the purpose of this video is. There are ways you could have communicated the same message without painting Africa in such a bad light. The only thing I like about this is the maps.
@avus-kw2f213
@avus-kw2f213 Жыл бұрын
What is pan Africanism ?
@i_likemen5614
@i_likemen5614 Жыл бұрын
@@avus-kw2f213 A political movement aimed to unite all or most of Africa into a single state
@arnoldlueders7500
@arnoldlueders7500 Жыл бұрын
I'm sorry I have to give you a fail. You can't just say well. There's 3000 km that you can't do it so just get that far?? It's like saying I can walk from the United States to China but I have to walk on water in certain spots. Well that doesn't count.
@Spudolph
@Spudolph Жыл бұрын
it was a joke
@cccmmm1234
@cccmmm1234 Жыл бұрын
Not even South Africa can fix potholes. The rest of Africa has no chance. Blame colonialism and proxy wars if you want but they are not the biggest problem by a long way.
@lpiavelino6598
@lpiavelino6598 Жыл бұрын
reparations for colonisation.
@slowmopoke
@slowmopoke Жыл бұрын
It's all very tiresome
@JoshAda0650
@JoshAda0650 Жыл бұрын
Cecil John Rhodes and Elon Musk aren't comparable.... One was a ruthless colonist and gay (never had a family nor kids despite being a millionaire and prime minister)... Another is a scientist, industrialist, inventor and a family man
@JohnHughesChampigny
@JohnHughesChampigny Жыл бұрын
Elon Musk is not a scientist, he's been lying about having a science degree for years. He is such a good family man that his wife left him.
@arlosmith9504
@arlosmith9504 Жыл бұрын
Rhodes was, indeed, a ruthless colonialist. But, unlike Musk, he was a competent businessman.
@reinhardtburger7108
@reinhardtburger7108 5 ай бұрын
​@@arlosmith9504 He was not competent, if he was he would have succeeded. He was a gay leftist that believed in the idea of a global empire and massive government. He also was not a self made man he was funded by nathan rothschild. He was the classic example of english planter culture a complete degenerate.
@garethbelk4065
@garethbelk4065 Жыл бұрын
as the world master traveller i condemn most of what this young man suggests, esp the bit where he says to go across areas controlled by bandits and terrorists, DONT. u WILL NEVER COME OUT ALIVE. i `ve been on 4 world journeys including 2 complete circumnavigations of the world, one west and one east, theres no one hows travelled more then i have. I have a built in instinct when trouble is ahead, as i`m here alive today. Most of the many countries i`ve done have had some problem or other. To ask someone else to do what i have done would be very wrong and stupid. Always relay on local knowledge and dont listen to an armchair traveller. Nurture travel angels, people who will help u on your travels, again i wouldn`t be here without them. Bye now
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