By Tom Thumb, Posted Dec 10, 2006
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From the pinnacle of the largest continent to its Arabic beginnings, respect is always doled out to the traveler who heads from Cape Town to Cairo without getting murdered along the way.
The trouble with this epic voyage is that you have to pass through devastated countries like Sudan along the way. Not to mention border checkpoints in places like Kenya where bandits routinely shoot at passing vans to slow them down and rob them.
Still, that shouldn’t put off the dedicated road junky and you can take heart from the fact that Paul Theroux managed to pull it off at the age of 60 and tells the tale in his book, Dark Star Safari, an inspiring read for anyone who feels travel has got just too tame.
Another danger on route are the African cities that only Jackie Chan would plan on walking around after dark. Try to arrange all your visas in advance so that you need to spend as little time as possible in them. The heart of Africa is out in the country and that’s where you’ll want to be staying.
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Hand to Mouth to India is the tale of when I hitchhiked from England to India at the age of 20 with no money at all.
Passing through England, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and finally arriving in Goa where I slept on the beach all season and wrote the book.
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Tales of a Road Junky covers the last 12 years of my journeys around the world. telling the tale of coming of age in the Goa trance scene, rescuing foreign prisoners in Delhi, selling fake Rolex watches in the street in Tokyo, getting into trouble with the medicine mafia in Brazil and delving deep into the heart of Israelity in the Promised Land.
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