What an amazing human experience! (EN - FR)
On January the first, 2001, Sonia and Alexandre set off with a small digital camera, the sole directors of their odyssey, from the Cape of Good Hope, at the southernmost tip of Africa, to their final destination : The Sea of Galilea. Their outlandish plan consisted of crossing the entire continent exclusively on foot, following along the great fracture of the Rift Valley. On the itinerary of this unparalleled trek : South Africa, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, and Israel.
For three years and three months, almost 1200 days, Alex and Sonia experienced terrible hardships : fatigue, extreme thirst and blazing sun, torrential downpours, tsetse flies, ferocious beasts, hyenas prowling around their tent at night, man-eating lions, malaria and raging fevers etc… But they also discovered an incredibly generous Africa. They were welcomed by hundreds of families, and for a few hours or days, partook of these people’s joys and sufferings : an evening in the South African townships, a communal meal in the mountains of Lesotho, a ritual dance with the Barbaïgs, a night of song with the Turkanas, an initiation ceremony with the Hamers, ten days with a caravan of camels crossing the Sahara from Darfour to Egypt on an ancient route…
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La traversée de l’Afrique à pied par Alexandre et Sonia Poussin. 3 ans et 3 mois d’aventure pour parcourir 14 000 kms à travers 10 pays.
Alexandre et Sonia Poussin sont partis le 1er janvier 2001 de la pointe du Cap de Bonne Espérance, à l’extrême sud de l’Afrique, avec en tête, comme destination finale, le lac de Tibériade en Israël. Leur projet fou : traverser le continent à pied en suivant la grande fracture du rift !
Au programme de ce trek pas comme les autres : l’Afrique du Sud, le Zimbabwe, le Mozambique, le Malawi, la Tanzanie, le Kenya, l’Ethiopie, le Soudan, l’Egypte et l’Israël. Pas moins de 10 pays pour un périple de plus de 14 000 kms parcourus à la force des jambes pendant 3 ans !
Source: Africa Trek, http://www.africatrek.com, Janusz, 2004-2009 Creative Commons.