The Kingsley Holgate Diaries
| World first Humanitarian Expedition Succeeds. |
Friday, August 01, 2008Friends this is your last expedition update, the final account, of the long and sometimes dangerous journey that has tracked the outline of Africa through 33 countries. The battered expedition Land Rovers roar towards the Cape of Good Hope finishing point. “It’s a race against time, we want to empty the much travelled calabash back into the cold south Atlantic on Madiba’s birthday. The great man has been such an inspiration to this odyssey, his picture with our family and his handwritten message in the Scroll of Peace and Goodwill, has encouraged thousands of others who live along the outside edge of Africa to endorse its pages. Without your support this journey could never have happened so please join us in the final countdown to the longest and most exciting humanitarian journey ever undertaken. |
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| The Last leg of the Expedition "On the home run" |
Thursday, July 03, 2008428 days, 33 countries and 62 217 km with thousands of lives saved and improved through this world first humanitarian expedition. We were met at the border by the king of Tembuland where a bale of mosquito nets was handed over to the organizer of their malaria control programme |
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| Across the Meridian Line |
Monday, February 18, 2008....and so we turn the Landies around, the Algerian military police meet us outside the town of Tindouf, district by district groups of armed men and vehicles escort us back to Oran. |
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| "We gave them a bloody nose!" |
Tuesday, February 12, 2008Our three battered South African registered Landies pull into the mud houses and tent camps. This is the most inhospitable part of the Sahara that we’ve ever seen but the people are full of pride and passion and are longing to get back their land. |
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| Filling in the Puzzle |
Monday, February 11, 2008When we last heard from Kingsley Holgate’s Outside Edge Expedition they had reached Algeria and were travelling in an armoured convoy into the Sahara to do much needed humanitarian work in the Saharawi refugee camps. It’s a story best told from the scribbled pages of the expedition journal. |
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| Come what may – destination Algeria |
Saturday, February 09, 2008We’re on the night ferry from Alicante in Spain to Oran in Algeria. People on foot trading with bundles and bags, second hand shoes, babies feeding bottles, cartons of cigarettes, nappies, toilet paper, blankets and mattresses. Those with vehicles have loaded fridges, washing machines, bicycles, furniture and TV sets. |
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| A detour Across the Straights of Gibraltar |
Wednesday, February 06, 2008When we last spoke to the Greybeard of African adventure they had been turned back from the Algerian border with Morocco. “Closed even to a camel” he told us by satellite phone – “it’s a bitter blow for the expedition, so we had to travel all the way back to Tangier and take a ferry over the Straights of Gibraltar to Algeciras in Spain.” Herewith some scribbled notes from the expedition journal. |
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| Volubilis |
Tuesday, February 05, 2008It sounds like I feel, even with the help of three disprins and a few cups of coffee. We’re still heading for the Tangier ferry and have stopped off at the ancient Roman ruins of Volubilis which in AD 45 was the empire’s most remote base. |
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