{"id":2067,"date":"2011-11-15T14:34:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T14:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movinghouse.ws:81\/wordpress\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2012-02-01T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T11:15:11","slug":"south-africa-weve-arrived-in-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movinghouse.ws\/?p=2067","title":{"rendered":"South Africa – We’ve arrived in Cape Town!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

London to Cape Town<\/p>\n

BA 0043: Boeing 747 – 11hrs 30 mins<\/p>\n

Moving House: Land Cruiser – 10 months 5 days<\/p>\n

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\"IMG_5029\"<\/a> \"IMG_4836\"<\/a> \"IMG_4995\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Total distance driven: 30,557 miles \/ 49,136 km (almost 1.25 the circumference of the Earth!)<\/p>\n

Average daily distance: 95.8 miles \/ 154 km<\/p>\n

Fuel consumption: 5644 litres (24.63mpg or\u00a0 8.71 km\/litre)<\/p>\n

Cheapest fuel: 7 pence\/litre (11 US cents\/litre) in Libya<\/p>\n

Most expensive fuel: \u00a31.13\/litre (USD 1.79\/litre) in Burundi<\/p>\n

Ran out of fuel: Malawi (yes, all of it)<\/p>\n

African countries visited: 17<\/p>\n

Revolutions witnessed: 2 (Tunisia & Egypt)<\/p>\n

Tear gas moments: 1<\/p>\n

Bribes paid: 0<\/p>\n

Speeding fines: 1 (but Ven sweet talked his way out of it!)<\/p>\n

Vehicle searches: 8<\/p>\n

Police road blocks en route: About 40 (especially in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt during the \u2018Arab Spring\u2019)<\/p>\n

Number of hands shaken at border crossings and police stops: 893 (each, roughly)<\/p>\n

Quickest border crossing: Namibia to South Africa \u2013 10 mins \u2013 all the counters are numbered so you know exactly where to go! (Zimbabwe to Botswana would have been just as quick were there not a soap opera unfolding at the immigration office whilst our passports were being stamped!)<\/p>\n

Slowest border crossing: Entering Egypt from Libya – 6hrs 50 mins, of which 10 mins to buy visa and have it stamped into our passports, and 6hrs 40mins to run around like a headless chicken getting the paperwork for our car sorted.<\/p>\n

Parts fallen off car: 4<\/p>\n

Punctures: 0 (!)<\/p>\n

Worst road: Dodoma to Iringa in Tanzania (163miles, 7 hours and several lost car parts)<\/p>\n

Scariest road: Sirte to Ajdabiya in Libya (in the dark, dodging Libyans zooming at over 100mph with no lights)<\/p>\n

Number of teeth lost en route: 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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