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This is a very delayed post, sent almost three weeks after we returned to Accra and concluded our overland trip.<\/p>\n

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Here is a summary of our overland trip in a 17 year old Land Rover Defender, quantitatively speaking:<\/p>\n

Countries visited\u00c2\u00a0 4<\/p>\n

Kilometres driven \u00c2\u00a05,500<\/p>\n

Km on unpaved\u00c2\u00a0 roads, ranging from reasonably good laterite to downright poor donkey track:\u00c2\u00a0 About 1,000<\/p>\n

Oil consumed\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00bd litre<\/p>\n

Breakdowns:\u00c2\u00a0 0<\/p>\n

Number of times stuck:\u00c2\u00a0 0<\/p>\n

Maintenance stops 3<\/p>\n

Flat tires:\u00c2\u00a0 1<\/p>\n

Nights: 30<\/p>\n

Nights camped in organized establishments 17<\/p>\n

Nights bush camping 4<\/p>\n

Number of campsites\u00c2\u00a0 16<\/p>\n

Nights in hotels:\u00c2\u00a0 9<\/p>\n

Number of hotels 5<\/p>\n

Per night Cost\u00c2\u00a0 of Camping\u00c2\u00a0 $10<\/p>\n

Per night cost of hotels $80<\/p>\n

Most expensive night:\u00c2\u00a0 $110<\/p>\n

Least expensive night:\u00c2\u00a0 $0<\/p>\n

Days of rain:\u00c2\u00a0 3<\/p>\n

Restaurant meals: 20<\/p>\n

Camp\/Picnic\u00c2\u00a0 Meals 70<\/p>\n

Border crossings: 6<\/p>\n

Currencies: \u00c2\u00a02<\/p>\n

Blog posts published 25 (including this one)<\/p>\n

Guides Hired:\u00c2\u00a0 11<\/p>\n

And this is where we went:<\/p>\n

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Our counter clockwise route from Accra, Ghana, into Togo and Benin, back into Togo from northrn Benin, returning to Benin, on to Burkina Faso and back into northern Ghana descending to Accra. Red x”s indicate stopover points.<\/p><\/div>\n

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  This is a very delayed post, sent almost three weeks after we returned to Accra and concluded our overland trip. Here is a summary of our overland trip in a 17 year old Land Rover Defender, quantitatively speaking: Countries visited\u00c2\u00a0 4 Kilometres driven \u00c2\u00a05,500 Km on unpaved\u00c2\u00a0 roads, ranging from reasonably good laterite to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16,25,13,24,14,15,22,21,23],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-west-african-wander-taking-it-on-the-road","tag-4x4","tag-africa","tag-defender","tag-expedition","tag-land-rover","tag-overland","tag-overlanding","tag-west-africa","tag-wheatcroft","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}