The Africa Rally 2008

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Right here's the deal - Laurence and James thought it would be a good idea to do something worthwhile when they finished university. So Carmarooned was born. We propose to drive through 21 countries, across Europe, over the Sahara desert onto our destination, Cameroon. We aim to raise as much money as we can for the great charities Send a Cow and Frank water.

PLEASE HELP!!!!

We will be leaving on Friday 18th July the day after graduation and hoping to arrive in Cameroon six weeks later. The rally aims to raise thousands of pounds for African charities and also our sturdy steed will be given away to someone in need in Cameroon.

Please look at our Charities under the link on the left.

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A conclusive entry
At 23:04 on 02-09-2008 James said...
So after a few days to gather thoughts and re-align ourselves back to the left side of the road we can bring the trip to an end.

The last entry made was very brief because as usual, we were in an internet cafe with a timer quickly running out. That was in Kribi, the day after the party. We had one day to put our feet up and acclimatise to not driving for hours on end every day before we had to get to Douala. This day was spent chilling on the beach and in the sea, both of which were the same warm temperature. We spent the evening trying to control a crazy crowd that had formed to buy our belongings that weren’t coming home. I hadn’t realised that bartering in both directions was equally as hard.

In the morning we had a short dip in the sea before driving off towards Douala to try and get the cars valued. On the outskirts of Douala we had another quick scrum outside a car parts shop to sell a few other bits before getting to the Foyer Du Marin hotel where all the others were. Had a tasty meal and a few beers before heading towards the local casino. This turned out to be a good outing as we all enjoyed the free food and free booze and I came away with over double the money I went in with. The next day we spent lounging around the hotel pool, interspersed with running around Douala looking for tickets to fly home. We got some good ones to fly on the Friday, which was a relief after learning that to fly to Paris, as originally intended would have doubled the price of the ticket. Next we had to solve...[Read More]

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