2027 travel plans

Scarlett · 2026-06-18T09:49:32+1000

2027 is starting to firm up a little.

I’ll be studying for probably six months of the year and then the other half is still TBA. The study part looks firmer for the first half of the year, so now I need to consider broad plans for maybe two months in the second half, if I can get time away from work.

Do you reckon I could fit coastal West Africa sensibly into the second half of next year somewhere? Anyone even been somewhere there and have the key tips (avoid monsoon etc)…

Cameroon (Yaounde or Douala area?)
Nigeria (probably Abuja)
Benin
Togo
Ghana
Côte d’Ivoire
Liberia

Is that complex enough or should I try to get over to Equatorial Guinea as well?

Overland travel looks ‘sporty’ so maybe flying between each would actually be easier? And before anyone suggests it, who needs a beach resort in Aitutaki when you can have chaotic cities and malaria!

Warks · 2026-06-18T17:22:36+1000

Scarlett said:
2027 is starting to firm up a little.

I’ll be studying for probably six months of the year and then the other half is still TBA. The study part looks firmer for the first half of the year, so now I need to consider broad plans for maybe two months in the second half, if I can get time away from work.

Do you reckon I could fit coastal West Africa sensibly into the second half of next year somewhere? Anyone even been somewhere there and have the key tips (avoid monsoon etc)…

Cameroon (Yaounde or Douala area?)
Nigeria (probably Abuja)
Benin
Togo
Ghana
Côte d’Ivoire
Liberia

Is that complex enough or should I try to get over to Equatorial Guinea as well?

Overland travel looks ‘sporty’ so maybe flying between each would actually be easier? And before anyone suggests it, who needs a beach resort in Aitutaki when you can have chaotic cities and malaria!

I have no info to offer but wow. I've never heard of anyone in recent years actually wanting to travel to West Africa with a few exceptions like Mali and Mauritania. I travelled overland from Kenya to South Africa when I was younger, almost exclusively in old British Empire countries where English was common and that was hard enough (1990). West Africa was another world then. I did meet a guy who had done Morocco to South Africa in the mid 80s though and was back in Uganda with his wife to show her around.
Good luck! I admire your ambition and hope it goes well!

Cossie · 2026-06-18T19:44:23+1000

Scarlett said:
2027 is starting to firm up a little.

I’ll be studying for probably six months of the year and then the other half is still TBA. The study part looks firmer for the first half of the year, so now I need to consider broad plans for maybe two months in the second half, if I can get time away from work.

Do you reckon I could fit coastal West Africa sensibly into the second half of next year somewhere? Anyone even been somewhere there and have the key tips (avoid monsoon etc)…

Cameroon (Yaounde or Douala area?)
Nigeria (probably Abuja)
Benin
Togo
Ghana
Côte d’Ivoire
Liberia

Is that complex enough or should I try to get over to Equatorial Guinea as well?

Overland travel looks ‘sporty’ so maybe flying between each would actually be easier? And before anyone suggests it, who needs a beach resort in Aitutaki when you can have chaotic cities and malaria!

I did Nairobi to Spain overland a while ago, but I dare say nothing I experienced would be of benefit now.

Benin, Togo, Ghana and the Ivory Coast should be very achievable, the are quite a few tours online, which is what I would be doing.

Just two that I pulled up, no affiliation to any at all.