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African Transport for travellers

1. Railway. All African railways were under construction   long time ago, in colonial times, for the exportation of valuable minerals and the goods from the depth of the main land to the ocean ports. Now these railways have been saved, and many even work and the passenger connection, as a rule, has remained. But the African trains are very slow, go seldom, almost everywhere are duplicated by the motorways, and, the most insulting, by the railways of Africa do not form a continuous net.

2. Automobile transport. In Africa there are a lot of automobile ways, though not all of them are of identical quality. There are two types of them more precisely:
а) Very good, smooth, cemented automobile ways;
б) Very bad, on a broader scale none. Intermediate variants are few. Night movement of automobile transport is not large.

3. The sailing charter in Africa is distributed poorly. The most beneficial it can be in Congo, Zaire and neighboring countries where it is bad with roads and it is good with the rivers. Also there is a water communication on all great African lakes.
 Also there is a motor ship from Egypt to Sudan and back, there are both numerous ferries and crosses through the rivers where for the construction of bridges there was no money. There are also marine ferries, for example, from Dar Es Salaam to the islands Zanzibar and Tanga (Tanzania), and some other.

4. An air transport. Some cities of Africa are connected by air routes. As a rule, the price of flight even between neighboring countries is very high: $150, $200, $250. Inside the countries the price aboard the plane is lower; we shall say $70, $100.

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