Cooking Maggi loh, what else ??
Motifs on the Rock Hewn Churches in Lalibela, Ethiopia.
A better part of the Nubian Desert Crossing
Omo Village man along the Black Road of Kenya.
Omo Village Woman along the Corrugated Desert crossing in Kenya.Friday, July 29, 2011
Some Pics
Cooking Maggi loh, what else ?? Motifs on the Rock Hewn Churches in Lalibela, Ethiopia.A better part of the Nubian Desert Crossing Omo Village man along the Black Road of Kenya. Omo Village Woman along the Corrugated Desert crossing in Kenya.
Next Morning at 60 km before Marsabit.
Beautiful Sunrise.
23 shocks broke yesterday, lost count of how many bushes, tie-rod ends, hundreds of screws had dropped off.
DISASTER !!!!
23 shocks broke yesterday, lost count of how many bushes, tie-rod ends, hundreds of screws had dropped off.
DISASTER !!!!
Cargoloc Trans-Africa 3 & 4
Trans-Africa 4 was a tough event. From Cape Town all the way to Nairobi was great and full of adventure seeing lots of animals, great places and roads were good.
Nairobi was the turning point, when on the first day we left heading North towards Marsabit, we were shocked to see the road being paved to superb condition and we could zoom at 110 kmh.
We breezed thru 300 kms of this newly paved tarmac and thought that before nightfall we will arrive at Marsabit.
Next thing we knew, and it was only about 100 kms left to Marsabit when the tarmac ended and immediately with a big bump tossed my truck about 3 feet airborne and then the great adventure started.
For the next 60 kms, we took 5 hours, until nightfall and we were still 45 kms from Marsabit, and we were in the middle of the desert. At last light, I could see a Camel convoy in the distant horizon and then, it was all dark as the orange egg yolk just dissappeared.
We had to camp and the corrugation was so intense that, if you go at 10 kmh, you fell every drop of the corrugation, if you go at 30kmh, you know that the suspension, shocks will go anytime taking all the fierce beating with 1000s of cycles of frequency. If we go at 60 - 70 kmh, sure it feels nice for a while when you skip and dance over the corrugation, but then you hit rocks the size of footballs all over the place and there is no place to swerve or duck or avoid. BANG !! head-on onto these huge rocks and your undercarriage make such a loud explosion that the truck is going to break up anytime anywhere.
So we had to go back to slowing down to try to be gentle, but then back to feeling every bump every second and your bones, body, head, lips and everything vibrates, bur rrrrrr. It was hell going thru this most corrugated gravel I have even been on.
It felt forever abd we had only done 20 kms. My GPS says that we are 40 clicks from Marsabit and from Marsabit to Moyale Border with Ethiopia, it was another 160 kms. Phew, how we are going to go thru this, I really have no more ideas what to do ? How to do ? Stop ? Go ? Camp ? Truck going to break anytime ? Exhuast Pipe already dragging on the track ????
When will this end ? I kept asking myself ?? This is the Black Road of Kenya. Only another 160 kms to go. We camped in the middle of nowhere and it was great, but I dread to find out tomorrow how many shocks, mountings, bearings, bushings, exhuasts we have broken ??
Nairobi was the turning point, when on the first day we left heading North towards Marsabit, we were shocked to see the road being paved to superb condition and we could zoom at 110 kmh.
We breezed thru 300 kms of this newly paved tarmac and thought that before nightfall we will arrive at Marsabit.
Next thing we knew, and it was only about 100 kms left to Marsabit when the tarmac ended and immediately with a big bump tossed my truck about 3 feet airborne and then the great adventure started.
For the next 60 kms, we took 5 hours, until nightfall and we were still 45 kms from Marsabit, and we were in the middle of the desert. At last light, I could see a Camel convoy in the distant horizon and then, it was all dark as the orange egg yolk just dissappeared.
We had to camp and the corrugation was so intense that, if you go at 10 kmh, you fell every drop of the corrugation, if you go at 30kmh, you know that the suspension, shocks will go anytime taking all the fierce beating with 1000s of cycles of frequency. If we go at 60 - 70 kmh, sure it feels nice for a while when you skip and dance over the corrugation, but then you hit rocks the size of footballs all over the place and there is no place to swerve or duck or avoid. BANG !! head-on onto these huge rocks and your undercarriage make such a loud explosion that the truck is going to break up anytime anywhere.
So we had to go back to slowing down to try to be gentle, but then back to feeling every bump every second and your bones, body, head, lips and everything vibrates, bur rrrrrr. It was hell going thru this most corrugated gravel I have even been on.
It felt forever abd we had only done 20 kms. My GPS says that we are 40 clicks from Marsabit and from Marsabit to Moyale Border with Ethiopia, it was another 160 kms. Phew, how we are going to go thru this, I really have no more ideas what to do ? How to do ? Stop ? Go ? Camp ? Truck going to break anytime ? Exhuast Pipe already dragging on the track ????
When will this end ? I kept asking myself ?? This is the Black Road of Kenya. Only another 160 kms to go. We camped in the middle of nowhere and it was great, but I dread to find out tomorrow how many shocks, mountings, bearings, bushings, exhuasts we have broken ??
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Trans-Africa 3 & 4
Hi 4x4 Adventurers
After returning from the Trans-Amazon series last June - August, heaps of guys asked me to go back to AFRICAAAAAA !!!!
So, here it is, we are going SAFARIIIIII on Trans-Africa 3 & 4, starts from Cape Town on the 27 April 2011 to end in Cairo on the 21 June 2011. Not to rush over the 56 days to retrace the fabled Cape to cairo Route almost in reverse direction taken by Sir David Livingstone, the Great English Misssionary in the late 18th century, who also dic=scovered the Mighty Victoria Falls over the Zambesi River.
Check out the website www.4x4worldexplorer.com for details yah.
Long Live Adventure
Thomas Foo
After returning from the Trans-Amazon series last June - August, heaps of guys asked me to go back to AFRICAAAAAA !!!!
So, here it is, we are going SAFARIIIIII on Trans-Africa 3 & 4, starts from Cape Town on the 27 April 2011 to end in Cairo on the 21 June 2011. Not to rush over the 56 days to retrace the fabled Cape to cairo Route almost in reverse direction taken by Sir David Livingstone, the Great English Misssionary in the late 18th century, who also dic=scovered the Mighty Victoria Falls over the Zambesi River.
Check out the website www.4x4worldexplorer.com for details yah.
Long Live Adventure
Thomas Foo
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
CargoLoc TransAfrica
Hello Adventurers,
After our very successful TransAmazon 1 & 2, this year 2011, we will doing the TransAfrica from Cape Town to Cairo, traversing through Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt.
Starting from Cape Town on the 27th April to end in Cairo, Egypt on the 21st June 2011, a whopping 56 days.
The itinerary of the 2 parts are as attached.
As of 10th Jan, 2011, we have 7 Mitsubishi Pajeros LO 47 + 6 Toyota Land Cruisers 80 series + 1 Isuzu D-Max + 38 adventurers. We will stop at 40 yah.
Long Live Adventure
Thomas Foo
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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