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The team met the shipment in England and repacked it into five Land Rover trucks and two trailers. The trucks were driven into new containers and put on another ship --- this one bound for Accra, Ghana.

The fishing villiage of Cape Coast, Ghana, sits in the shadow of El Mina castle - one of the oldest points of slave exportation in Africa

On September 15^th the team met up with the trucks and the cargo and drove 915 miles north --- through Ghana and Burkina Faso --- to Niger and the main dinosaur site, "Fako."

The one-way, three-continent journey for team and cargo: 8,553 miles.