How I felt before travelling to Africa? - The place seemed to me so strange, unknown, different. I had to respect it, sometimes I was afraid. Because how travelling on the land where white man is associated as "wallet", where human life has a much smaller value than in Europe. How to resist the army or police requests of bribes? How to travel through Congo or Angola, where even easy going Lonely Planet guides doesn't do the research on site. Finally, there is nothing certain, nothing is constant. And the tropical diseases, including deadly malaria. The concerns are, but with a bit of luck and common sense anything wrong should not happened.

I know that I won't understand Africa, but I want to touch it, see, feel the smell, fall into the other dimension sense of time. I do not expect there many historical buildings, the wonders of the development of civilization, etc. Because the character of Black Land give a local people, who lives in incredible landscapes such as Sahara, Sahel, coast, equatorial rainforests, mountains, rivers, etc. All that I know just from movies and books, and 2 of them I strongly recommend - "The Shadow of the Sun" wrote by Ryszard Kapuscinski and movie "Hotel Rwanda". Now as in the previous 5 continents, I need to cross it overland from one end cape to the other on opposite side. Since the way Cairo - Cape Town is quite popular, I chose the western version, from Gibraltar to the Cape of Good Hope. The route I planned to do without the use of aircraft.

And so the journey could be achieved:

Route the journey what I acheived (to some of the visited countries more then one entry): Morocco with Western Sahara - Mauritania - Senegal - Gambia - Guinea-Bissau - Guinea - Mali - Burkina Faso - Ivory Coast - Ghana - Togo - Benin - Niger - Chad - Cameroon - Nigeria - Equatorial Guinea - Gabon - Congo Brazzaville - Democratic Republic of Congo - Angola - Namibia - Botswana - Zimbabwe - Zambia - Malawi - Mozambique - Swaziland - Lesotho - South Africa.

Duration: 12 January 2007 - 21 October 2007 (more than 9 months - 283 days)

Team: This time I wasn't alone but with partner Ewelina Adamus. In addition we travelled from Morocco to Niger accompanied by Radek Cwik and from Namibia to Mozambique by Magda Budzinska.

I divided the journey into 4 geographic parts: North (Morocco and Mauritania), West (from Senegal to Niger), Central (from Chad to Angola) and South (from Namibia to South Africa).