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11 Feb. 2023

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Without a Nigerian visa, we will have to find an alternative way to get from Cameroon to Benin. Perhaps we can, whilst the rest of our group continues into Nigeria, stay behind in Cameroon, spend a few days there visiting whatever is worthwhile, and then fly to Benin? There are flights from Douala, Cameroon’s commercial [...]
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18 Nov. 2022

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We talked a bit more about the trip, and about the issues, especially the security points. We agreed we could look at this in two ways: if we join the trip, we assume that we have a responsible group leader, Alonso himself, who knows the area, but being a group makes us quite visible, and [...]
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15 Nov. 2022

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Alonso, who, I think, is the owner, the organiser, the guide, the driver and everything else you can think of at Kumakondo, responded quickly to my request, and sent me a more extensive brochure on the ‘transit trip’. In essence, the plan is to drive in 40 days with a truck from Chad to Sierra [...]
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02. the itinerary

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As always, we have a plan. We have not arranged anything, except for our tickets to and from Teheran, but we have a plan. Using a variety of busses, trains and taxis – and whatever other means of transport we find – we will, after a few days Tehran, first travel north, to Tabriz, and [...]
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(1) The Silk Road: a plan

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A rough description of the geography of the Silk Road
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