Cape to Cairo -- by trains

In 2018 I travelled solo on the classic Cape Town to Cairo route using trains as much as possible. Along the way I interviewed people on each train on subjects ranging from cross-border trade to the historic context of this train route. As of 2023, there are no long-distance passenger trains running in South Africa, Zimbabwe (nor in Botswana and Namibia), and Sudan is in a state of war, so the Cape to Cairo by train route is not currently feasible. Read about all my African travels in my book, “African Traveller: Twenty years of adventures as a documentary filmmaker“ --