Introduction

From London to Timbuktu via the Sahara has been for the past decade From Here 2 Timbuktu's  signature trip so it is fitting that we  launch our our new Travel Network memebership site Campfire  with our favourite journey, back home to Mali and Timbuktu.

This year we are going in a caravan with other self-drivers. You can join individually or with your own vehicle. Places are limited

Next trip: Departing Marrakesh Jan 2018 

We will be going through:

Morocco + Mauritania + Mali

 From Bamako in Mali there is an option to continue with a  journey across Mali by River Niger to Timbuktu and The Festival On The Niger.

Individual traveller Prices

Marrakesh to Bamako, 3 weeks : €2,800 euros

Campfire Subscriber price: €2440

Bamako to Timbuktu by river Niger 2 weeks: €2800 (all inclusive.)

Campfire Subscriber price: €2440

Combine Marrakesh to Timbuktu, 6 weeks: €3950

Campfire Subscriber price: €3150

If you want to join as your own group you supply your own vehicle, pay your own costs and give us the vehicle at the end and fly home. 

Or we can return the vehicle at a cost of £4000.

Campfire

Want to do this journey yourself, in your own time, with your own group?

On Campfire, drive-it-yourself vehicles can do the journey in their own time with our network of guides and camps and operators on backing you up all the way.

A Taste of the Journey

From Fes or Marrakesh leave Arab Morocco and head for the Atlas mountains and Imilchil, a small town on the southern slopes of the middle Atlas, for our first encounter with the original Saharan people, the Berber.

From The Atlas descend to the Sahara. From here on to Bamako in Mali you will experience the landscapes and cultures with the people friends and networks From here 2 Timbuktu has built up over a decade of doing this journey: the Saharwiri of the Moroccan desert are our guides, the Berber fishermen of the Atlantic coast will cook you fish, the black and white Moors of Mauritania will take you through the desert. We pass through small villages, ancient towns and modern cities watching landscapes, colours, cultures and histories changing slowly until we are in black Africa for something entirely different again, yet by now strangely familiar.

What to expect on trips with From Here 2 Timbuktu

This route is our home, we feel as safe here as you do you in your home area because we are surrounded by communities we know and trust and can fall back on all the way. We have the local perspective and we share it with you. All we ask for in return is what all travellers, as guests on the road, always give out to get the best out of their journey: trust the guide.

You are on a road trip from A to B. There is  a tarmac road all the way unless we choose to leave for the desert!

There is no set itinerary though there is a plan that is adaptable, flexible and changeable at all times.

We go as a group, traveling as fast as the slowest person can go.

There will be a problem - a puncture, an issue with the car or on a border - but it will be surmountable. Our experience, guides and the community will see us through.

There will be long journeys and hot days, cool even freezing nights in the open desert under the most incredible stars you may ever see. You will expereince a range of emotions. But all is good, fine and normal, you are in the desert with a community backing you up.

Morocco

Mauritania

Mali

Send me info on the Sahara Overland 2018

More info below.

Photos

A few days from grey, wet London and the begins to warm the heart.
The landscape is open, the light is bright.
The smells and colours and sounds exotic.
You are a world away before you’ve really got going...

Over the Atlas is the Sahara the greatest desert on earth - and Africa beyond!

Many worlds, two continents, one journey. You only live once!

Accommodation
and Food

Hotel/guest house accommodation and restaurant food is not included on overland trips with From here 2 Timbuktu, but camping equipment and food is included. This allows you to be in control of your budget. 

Once joining the Mali by River Niger and Festival On The Niger trip accommodation is included for pre-paid passengers.

Price

Individual traveller Prices

Marrakesh to Bamako, 3 weeks : €2,800 euros

Campfire Subscriber price: €2440

Bamako to Timbuktu by river Niger 2 weeks: €2800 (all inclusive.)

Campfire Subscriber price: €2440

Combine Marrakesh to Timbuktu, 6 weeks: €3950

Campfire Subscriber price: €3150

If you want to do the journey yourself in your own vehicle we can help you buy a vehicle, you can join us or go in your time, you pay your own costs and give us the vehicle at the end of your journey and fly home. Your journey to Timbuktu could cost you costs and the price of a banger! 

Next Trip

 This trip can be organised on bespoke basis for groups of 3+. Best times: All year, coolest November to Feb.