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    • Overlanding, Taking It Slow

    Category: Overland Company, Seek Advice | Jun 12th, 2008 By ray.duke

    I’m planning an overlanding trip, possibly up to 3 years nonstop, and I plan to do some photography.  I don’t expect any company or group of individuals to alter their trip to give me extra time.  I’m curious, what company (Dragoman?) has longer tours that spend more time in each location?

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    1. Alex June 13th, 20081:32 pm :

      Hi Ray
      Africa-in-focus run trips with a “photography focus” so could ask them. The overland companies with large trucks tend to move quickly and you may find that they run very tight timetables. This is not to say that you cannot get off a truck and catch it up. Well at least this was possible with Dragoman in South America. But it is down to you to organise.
      If you are doing a long single trip with one company - you do not get many days in the larger cities - really a taste of the city but to be expected. - so really need to break up the trip.

    2. deon June 15th, 200812:51 am :

      Hi Ray
      We will be planning an overlander from Cape Town to Europe, with Photography a big focus on the trip.
      From where do you plan to start? Also planning like you to do it over a couple of years.
      Where are you based?
      Deon

    3. Guido June 30th, 200812:23 pm :

      As a general point, regardless of your need to spend extra time in certain places to get the pictures you want, I would not recommend three years of consecutive overlanding. Having had six consecutive months on a truck, personally the maximum I would book again would be 3 - 4 months followed by a break in whatever place I reached after that. Can you break up your trip like that? You could then switch between companies depending on when the next truck was coming through your city.

      I did a South America trip with Dragoman, and did not feel like we got enough time in many of the cities - I don’t know how they compare with any of the others, but I suspect with most of them the aim is to keep moving and cover as much ground as possible! As Alex says, Drago were pretty flexible with allowing you to hop on and off the truck and catch them up later - but if you anticipate doing that a lot you wouldn’t want to have paid out for the full overlanding trip only to find you are making your own way a lot of the time….

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