Libya is gone!! We're waiting for a boat now!!

We've finally made it through the paperwork nightmare that is Libya, at the second attempt and after a 1500kms detour back to Cairo we made it into the socialist country with the help of a couple of genuinely heplful people...after a while in Africa you tend to tar everyone with the same brush and forget that there are good ones out there!

We all spent Christmas on Iles de Jerbra in Southern Tunisia and today, Boxing Day, are driving north to the capital Tunis to try and get our ferry sorted which will whisk us back to the European mainland in a few days....Inshallah.

My final marathon is still on but with the last few weeks driving and pulling my hair out the training has again suffered, in fact my last run was nearly a month ago....eeek!!

So New Years Eve is set to be the date of the last chapter of Afritrex, I will leave my sisters house in Guildford around 8am and hope to make it into Petersfield around 1pm...if the legs hold out!

I hope to see you there.

Ben - Afritrex

Posted on 26 Dec 2008 by Ben Southall

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Welcome to Afritrex - A privately funded charity endurance challenge of marathons, mountains and more; documenting the encounters, obstacles and achievements of 12 months of hard fundraising and charity work across Africa.

Whilst circumnavigating the African Continent I will complete the following challenges:

To complete five marathons of at least 26 miles
To climb five of the highest mountains in Africa
To visit as many of the sites across Africa where the Victoria Cross has been won as possible (VC180 Challenge)

"The challenge to make every penny count"

Have a closer look at the site and find out more about how we'll be spending 2008.

Keep up to date !! - The action is happening as we speak...

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Click here for the latest photos

Click here for the latest route

My name is Ben Southall and for the last decade I’ve travelled extensively throughout Southern Africa taking on projects and expeditions to test my abilities and discover exciting new areas of the African continent, whilst in the UK I take part in fitness and endurance events to raise money for charity and thought it was about time I combined the two fields to create my own fundraising expedition from with others could benefit.

So was born Afritrex: the logistical equivalent of one man trying to build spaghetti junction using Taiwanese instructions and a broken shovel.

The idea was simple: take one continent; attempt to circumnavigate it and whilst doing so try and stay fit enough to complete a number of endurance challenges to raise money for my chosen charities and whilst doing so post it all on the internet!

This is set to be the most challenging, exciting and exhausting year of my life, can I really do it?

"The answer is I don't know,

so why not find out!"

This is me Ben Southall and this is my mission throughout 2008. Stay in contact with my progress updates on how things are going through this site.

I’ll be keeping you informed of my progress through biweekly updates to the site, route information and with regular photo and video blogs.

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