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Self-drive trip planner

Plan the drive. Pack for the road.

Build your overland itinerary with real driving times and fuel costs, add your documents, and download one travel pack for the trip. Travelling with children? We prepare their affidavit too.

Your trip

Start from home, add every place you will sleep and how many nights. We work out the dates, the drive times with breaks, and the countries you cross.

Breaks
hours of driving
minutes each time
Average speed
km/h under the speed limit

Over a long distance most people average about 15 km/h under the limit, with towns, trucks and roadworks.

Comfortable per day
hours of driving a day

Longer days get a suggestion to add stops on the way. Happy with long days? Turn it up.

Google gives the distance and the speed limits on the way. We add your breaks and a realistic average speed to every drive. Your car and fuel are on the next step.

    For a lodge or hotel we look up its own rates; for a town, the average for the area.

    Countries on the trip Filled in from your stops. Add any you only drive through.

    Your vehicle

    Tell us what you drive and who owns it. We work out the fuel for this trip and the papers you need at the border.

    We estimate real-world fuel use for your car on tar, gravel and off-road. You can change every figure.

    Fuel

    Who owns the vehicle?

    Who is travelling?

    Adults
    18 and older
    Children
    under 18

    Your documents

    Add a photo or PDF of each one. They go into your travel pack, and we read the IDs and birth certificates to fill in the affidavit for you. Phone photos are fine: flat, in good light, all four corners in view.

    Your packing list

    Built from your route, your vehicle and who is coming. Untick what you do not need and add your own. It prints as a checklist in your travel pack.

    Your packs

    Travel pack

    Your itinerary and route map, estimated expenses, vehicle and border papers, and the packing checklist, in one PDF.

    Your privacy. Documents are read securely to fill in the forms, then discarded. We do not store them or your details. The PDFs are put together on your own device.

    This planner helps you prepare. It is not legal advice. Border, vehicle and travel rules change, and officials can ask for more. Check with the border post, your bank or insurer, and the official guidance on gov.za before you travel.