I am so happy you do these videos where you dispel some myths around the long term vehicle based trips. I keep seeing these video makers who are really only weekenders posing as "overlanders" trying to simply sell you on products by whom they are sponsored. Thank you for providing perspective and just simple personal experience fact based information! Gold!!
Great video and content. Always look forward to your weekly posts. We're planning on shipping our vehicle from Brisbane to Africa later this year and will be re-watching all your posts on your trip around Africa for invaluable tips/information.
Hey 👋 _ Great Video ! Very interesting and was nice to remark an ATW sticker on the hood of the defender ! They obviously met my friend Jurg from Ins in Switzerland, somewhere in Africa ! Well done Dan !
Excellent show Dan excellent excellent excellent. Excited to see you do some of these and show us some of the vehicles around the world. It would’ve been nice perhaps that’s next week if you hadn’t interviewed the couple and let them tell us some stories. You kind of forgot to mention the vehicle sitting next to it.
Great book from the 1930’s called One Man Caravan. Guy drove his motorcycle around the world. He graduated from college and was asked at a party what are going to do and he half jokingly said he was going to drive around the world on a motorcycle. Guy at party owned a motorcycle company and said he would set him up.
I was wondering is it safe to go in Africa with a brand new Jeep full equipped? or do you have ressources on where you can go and where you cant go? Thanks :)
Nah it's fine. People don't realise that all those brand new land cruisers from the UN drive around as well. Obviously you should be smart with not leaving stuff and lock everything away in the car. Kill switch might be a nice insurance as well.
Hold the train!!! I remember a video where you said a right hand drive vehicle wouldn't work in Africa. That in some countries you can't drive them at all. That Defender sure looked right hand drive to me. What's up with that?
Africa can be done RHD, but other countries can not. In fact the owners of this were wanting to go across into Saudi and then into Oman and UAE, and they cannot because that vehicle is RHD.
It is not possible. Many, MANY people have tried. Some countries have just decided that "wrong hand drive" vehicles are too dangerous to allow on the roads. That's why I'll always buy a LHD.
@@TheRoadChoseMe It’s a shame, especially since Saudi is opening up now. Also a bit odd considering the laxness when it comes to other aspects of driving here (I live in the UAE). I’m hoping to get to Saudi next year in my Troopy to see some of the many sights before it gets too commercialised or over developed. Keep up the great content!
Dan, do I detected a touch of Land Rover lust? The 110 station wagon looks interesting as well. Maybe Sandy needs 1 more lap around the dark continent before being retired. Do these folks post their trip on you Tube?
@@thomaskiprono1502 Jesus Tommy, save your woke nonsense for your karen and ken world! There's a real world out there filled with real thinking people and real places with not an ounce of unicorn fairy dust that you seem to be wallowing in! What a puzzling embarrassment your are to the real world!
How common are killer bee swarms in Africa? I noticed they don’t quite have the option to just drive away in their rtt. If you didn’t have your pop up roof tent what would you have done to get away from the bees?
I'm a hobby beekeeper in South Africa and also do 4x4 travel in the region. This is definitely not an issue unless you want to go open up and disturb hives. Our hives are in our smallholding garden.
