The last few miles After covering nearly 300 kilometres in two days (on the second day we cycled just short of 200 kilometres), we reached Mongu on the 18th of August. All that lay between us and our finish line in Kalabo was the Barotse floodplain: a distance of just 70 kilometres. That day we would …
After two days of cycling from Lake Kariba, we were back in Lusaka on August 10. From Lusaka it was only a two-day journey to reach Kafue, which meant we had to find a place to stay the night. Since there weren’t any hostels on the road, we expected to sleep out in our tents. …
We left Majete not on our saddles, but in the confined space of a Toyota Hilux. In the back of the vehicle were our four bicycles, of which two had a broken rim. Worried that it was going to be very difficult to find replacements for our European-sized bicycles, we could not believe our luck …
Our last night in Liwonde was a restless one, at least in one room of the Chimwala cottage. This time it wasn’t the lions keeping us awake at night, but Thomas, who had fallen ill and was plagued by bouts of vomiting every hour or so. Meanwhile Jan, having secured a private room with a …
We left Nkhotakota on the morning of Jan’s 27th birthday. Earlier that day during breakfast, Linda had come out with a massive custard cake to celebrate the event. Since we couldn’t leave this kind gesture unfinished, the first hours on the bikes were a struggle not just against the hills but also our stomachs. In …
The first thing we noticed when we cycled from the border to the town of Rumphi was the plastic. After Rwanda, plastic pollution was a common sight, but nowhere was it as rampant as in Malawi. In the villages we cycled through, thousands and thousands of blue plastic bags were piled on top of each …
As per usual, we left Mbala, the first town in Zambia, a little later than we intended to. The reason was typically African: we couldn’t get breakfast in time as there was no gas at our hostel. Tho therefore headed out to buy some peanut butter and jam, which turned out to be a great …
After a soft landing in Rwanda, our time in the Real Africa started on the 20th of June. In the evening, we wandered about on the Tanzanian side of Rusumo, the border village, which was more of a resting place for truckers than anything else. As we were looking for a place to eat, we …
We left Kigali on Thursday afternoon, way later than we intended to. Assembling our bicycles and getting ourselves ready took way longer than expected (one of Thomas’s brake discs was damaged, which we had to get fixed, and about 80 kgs worth of baggage and equipment had to be distributed more or less equally among …
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