The self made 4 stage Tour d’Atlas is under way. We have crossed the High Atlas range once towards Ourzazate and are now looping back west with the intention of crossing back north and closing the loop near Marrakech.
Category: Africa travels
In 2009 the Käärmann brothers crossed the Sahara, in 2015 they continued from Nigeria to Gabon, then on to Namibia and the 4th stage have taken them to Dar-es-Salaam on the Indian Ocean. Where next? Ethiopia, Sudan and the Nile valley are waiting.
Tour d’Atlas 1 of 2 – cycling in Morocco
Andalusia, Corsica, Sardinia, Côte d’Azur, Amalfi Coast, Sicily, Valencia – these have been the past destinations of our spring cycling week. Group of 10 friends open the season somewhere warm with a self organised trip.
The destination has to be warm enough and mountainous. This time it was going to be just three of us and we decided to go off the beaten track – the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. Read More
The end is the beginning of the next
Leg 2 of what now seems to become a Tour d’Afrique is finished. We’ve been back in the civilisation now for a week and the final traces of red African dirt are leaving the lungs, nostrils, hair and other bodily hiding places.
The bikes are stored in Libreville, waiting for the opportunity to present itself to continue to trip south to the Congo river jungle, steppes of Angola towards the deserts of Namibia. Read More
Libreville – end of the road
The final destination 3122 African kilometers later – Libreville. Wilfred, a local moto shop owner has kindly agreed to let us store the bikes at his premises. We just have to build yet another box to protect the bikes from the torrential rain and humidity for the next months and maybe years to come.
Fauna of the Southern Hemisphere
Libreville, the capital with 300,000 people, is like a little island built on the river estuary. There is one shitty road connecting it with the rest of Gabon, one way in and out of the city. Apparently the second largest city, Port-Gentil, doesn’t even have a single road getting to it and only way to move in and out is by boat. In spite of its isolation, or perhaps thanks to it, Libreville feels quite relaxed and European. Read More
Jungle is thick in Gabon
I previously claimed that the road entering Cameroon is possibly the best tarmac in sub-saharan Africa. The Gabonese trumped it. Not only is the road from their border fantastic, they have also trimmed away 3m of the jungle from both sides of the road. Gabon looks like it could be just a slightly poorer departemangue of France. The simple houses are made of stone with lawns carefully mown and trimmed. Some gardens even have flower pots. Read More
