The Tatra Around the World 2 expedition will continue after a six-month break forced by the Covid-19 pandemic, its members announced in a press release on Sunday. The expedition will head for Africa in the spring. This entails a small change of plan since the expedition was originally supposed to continue in Asia, but the organizers say they fear border closures in the region.
The expedition, which left Prague in February, crossed the Balkans before getting stuck in Turkey during the first wave of Covid-19. After three months they managed to get to Iran where the team spent another 90 days before they were forced to return to Prague.
The expedition now wants to pass through ten African countries before moving on to South, Central and North America. Its plans will depend on the development of the pandemic.
The Tatra Around the World 2 expedition aims to cover 270,000 kilometres across 70 countries and five continents over a period of three years.
The project is a follow-up on a similar expedition undertaken in the late 1980s and early 1990s and one of its aims was to promote Czech industry abroad.