A personal account of a 6 month journey overland from Cairo to Cape Town using mainly land transport. It covers some background history of the country or location as well the journey events. Traveling down from Cairo, Sudan, Uganda [stopping off to see the Gorillas and experience White water rafting on the Nile], Kenya [with a side trip to Congo Brazzaville and the encounter with the Rebels ]then onto Tanzania and experience of the many National parks and the climb of Mt Kilimanjaro before heading across Zambia to Victoria Falls.Then through Botswana and South Africa, ending up at the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Town.