Inside the Travel Lab – Can you drive across Africa? How to make it work

This article speaks more broadly about overlanding in Africa, answering a few common questions, and using The Africa Rally as an example for how to deal with some common scenarios that you might come across while on the road.

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Oct 13, 2023

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