Expedition Lambaréné

The expedition's Tatra in the Tatra Museum

Expedition Lambaréné was a Czechoslovak student expedition to the hospital of Albert Schweitzer in Lambaréné. Its goal was to bring medicine there. The expedition started from the Old Town Square, Prague on January 1, 1968 at 10:23am and returned to Prague in August 1968. It lasted 257 days and travelled more than 35,000 km in its Tatra 138 Vn 6x6.

Members

The Tatra model

A specially modified truck "Tatra 138 6x6 VN - Lambaréné" was made in a Tatra factory in Kopřivnice. Today it is there on display in its museum.

The route

Praha - Rijeka - Cairo - Aswan - Khartoum - Addis Abeba - Nairobi - Kilima-Njaro - Dar es Salaam - Lusaka - Livingstone - Lusaka - Kinshasa - Brazzaville - Point Noir - Libreville - Douala - Lagos - In-Salah - Algiers - Marseille - Paris - Munich - Praha

The government of Gabon did not allow the expedition to enter the country, and so they did not reach the hospital. The members met the hospital representatives in Libreville, however, during a stopover of the ship General Mangin in the local harbour.

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