Alright, first let me introduce myself and give a little backgound story so you guys can understand why i am doing what i am planning to do, and just introductions, you know.
Dear Morten,
You seem like a nice kid, but just dumb/naive enough that you need some tough love. With all due respect, here's a few things to consider...
1.) Hiking: Give your head a shake and for crying out loud look at a map. How much time (and money) do you think it would take you to hike/walk/hitch-hike/etc. almost 16,000 km? Wake up.
2.) Magical Fee Rides: A fishing boat in Morocco that sails all the way to Cape Town to sell its catch? Honestly, what planet do you live on?
3.) All other made-up romantic notions: Man up and start thinking logically. There are no free rides for someone who can't even find a job in their own country... and has no skills, no trade, no experience.
Here's what I'd suggest you do:
1.) Budget: Your travel budget of £600-700 for transport is already sufficient. Why try to make things impossibly complicated and difficult when you can already afford the flight? In less than 30 seconds I easily found multiple options for way under your £700 budget - that's return air fare Oslo to Cape Town including all taxes. Who knows what you could arrange with an actual diligent search that explores the multitude of flight options available out there?
2.) Research the paperwork: http://www.dirco.gov.za/oslo/consularservices.html
3.) Get a job: Live frugally and save every penny.
There's no reason whatsoever why you can't easily make this happen. Stop looking for magical shortcuts and simply do it.
Have fun and good luck.
Happy New Year.
Cheers,
Terry
Ouch, salty. Well, hiking can get you to spain in less than 48 hours, but anywhere between 3 to 4 days is realistic, going on previous experiences from travellers going through europe, hiking is quite easily done through central europe so the straight to spain should be quite easy without much money needed. Lorry drivers tend to be the ones to aim for sometimes, and can take you quite far between major european cities. From oslo to berlin and onwards to paris really isnt a problem. and then onwards to spain forexample. Really man, if you look it up, people have gone to places further away than spain with nothing but dust in their pockets. Once in spain, i should be able to find somebody nice enough with a boat to take me from gilbraltar to morocco or any other northern african country, with or without money. From there a flight to south africa or any other african country bordered with south africa wouldnt be to hard to find and most likely alot cheaper than what you would be able to find online, even if you were so skilled to find one for £5-600. And if you read the text closely aswell it said that flights really are no option since i would also have to afford food and possibly other expenses related to staying in cape town for a while even though the rand isnt worth much, money has a tendency to burn quite easily anyway, from what people have told me that live down there. When it comes to the fishing boat we all know it wouldnt, but a boat from any african country to another one? Yes. Cargo, whatever it might be. Now lets say i picked a different route, and chose to skip france and go through italy instead and then greece - egypt, and IF i would resort to flights now, egyptair has flights to cape town from cairo for £250-300, which would save even further. And we all KNOW, africa is non hikeable, as i wrote in the text aswell: "If i COULD, hike across africa i WOULD. But not if i wna keep my limbs and internal organs intact." So no, nobody is going to be hiking 16.000 km across europe and africa to go to Cape Town. No no no sir, i say take ur salty balls elsewhere, always see sollutions not obstacles.
[ 27-Dec-2015, at 18:14 by Krestain ]
Good luck and have fun.
Cheers,
Terry
You basically need to find the cheapest place to fly to South Africa from that is within hitchhiking distance. You say hiking (ie, walking), but I assume you mean hitch hiking since you say you can get to Spain in 48 hours. That's not possible if you're genuinely hiking.
You might want to do some searching, but the cheapest option I can find that is potentially achievable is Istanbul. You can get flights from Istanbul to Cape Town .
You can also fly the whole way from Oslo to Cape Town (also via Istanbul) for . This is actually quite a good price. Flights from Morocco are from £ 384 so that's not worth hiking to. Flights from London might be worth looking at, but it really seems like Oslo is not a bad option to fly out of all things considered. Either that, or Istanbul to maybe save a few dollars.
p.s. if you want to know what it's actually like to slow travel across Africa (on a bicycle), check out . Some good reading there
Peter has some excellent suggestions. Also consider Rome, where Ethiopian Airlines has decent roundtrip fares to Cape Town. I checked travel dates in March.
It makes little sense to travel overland, or by sea, to South Africa. You won't save money; and you'll probably have to spend more. Crossing borders is one problem. You'll need visas; and they will cost. Plus, you may need to show that you have the wherewithal to travel in each country; and possess onward transportation.
I've traveled through much of Africa. Hitchhiking and sleeping outdoors aren't viable options for a variety of reasons, including safety. But if you're determined -- and won't be deterred -- it's better to wend your way through East Africa than West Africa. Begin either in Ethiopia or Kenya, then travel south. Take a look at the East Africa itineraries of adventure tour companies such as Cape Town-based Nomad. You'll find the routes are well traveled. That's not the case in West Africa. I speak from personal experience, having traveled there by land and sea, most recently in October.
[ 29-Dec-2015, at 03:25 by berner256 ]
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