Expedition Lambaréné

Expedition Lambaréné was a Czechoslovak student expedition to the hospital of Albert Schweitzer in Lambaréné.

It lasted 257 days and travelled more than 35,000 km in its Tatra 138 Vn 6×6.

A specially modified truck "Tatra 138 6×6 VN - Lambaréné" was made in a Tatra factory in Kopřivnice.

Prague – Rijeka – Cairo – Aswan – Khartoum – Addis Abeba – Nairobi – Kilima-Njaro – Dar es Salaam – Lusaka – Livingstone – Lusaka – Kinshasa – Brazzaville – Pointe-Noire – Libreville – Douala – Lagos – In-Salah – Algiers – Marseille – Paris – Munich – Prague 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.