Cairo-Cape Town Highway

Route

The Cairo–Cape Town Highway begins in Cairo, Egypt, where it meets the eastern end of the Cairo–Dakar Highway (Trans-African Highway 1). It heads south to Aswan and Abu Simbel, where a ferry crossing on Lake Nasser is required to cross the border into Sudan and reach the town of Wadi Halfa. It then continues south through Dongola and Khartoum to reach the town of Wad Madani, where the N'Djamena–Djibouti Highway (Trans-African Highway 6) joins it south-east. They cross into Ethiopia and reach the town of Wereta east of Lake Tana, where the N'Djamena–Djibouti Highway and the Cairo-Cape Town Highway separate.