I cycled 2,000km acros the DRC. But the DRC is a huge country, and that still didn’t get me all the way. So by the time I reached Katanga province, a train ride seemed like an appealing option. From then on I knew the roads would be better, the hassles fewer. Cycling here had little [...]
While in Mali, travelling with a friend and without the bike, we spent three days walking along the Bandiagara escarpment in Dogon country. It really is best to go with a guide. Mamadou, our guide, was a wealth of information and without him, much of what we saw would have been interesting but fairly meaningless. [...]
Still one of my favourite parts for biking, was the three weeks we spent cycling from Guinea Bissau’s capital to Kindia in the south of Guinea on my ride through West Africa. The majority of the 1,000km (ish) was off-road. Guinea Bissau was wide orange dust tracks and narrow single-track paths through overgrown grass and [...]
What is Kony 2012? Many people have heard of Joseph Kony, the notorious leader of the equally infamous LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army) rebel group d Uganda. Many will know of the atrocities committed by them and their use of child soldiers. But there are many more who have not heard of him. Until now. Invisible [...]
Before I left England, I had envisaged being one of the toughest sections of my Take On Africa bike ride would be crossing the Sahara. I expected extreme heat and long lonely stretches of road with nothing to do but cycle and not much to look at either. I thought the fierce sun would be [...]
One of the highlights of my 20-month cycle ride through Africa, didn’t actually involve any cycling… it was in fact, the two weeks spent paddling a locally-made wooden pirogue (fisherman’s boat) down the Niger River. To say it was all fun would be a lie. It was one of the most physically demanding 2-weeks of [...]
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