Africa Bicycle Touring Blogs Archive

  • “Throwing ourselves into the ether of life, soaking up as much as we can, learning every step of the way and pedaling for as long as our budgets will allow.” ...

    London to Cape Town with Matt and Tom

    “Throwing ourselves into the ether of life, soaking up as much as we can, learning every step of the way and pedaling for as long as our budgets will allow.” ...

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  • Some people, it seems, will never get their fill of adventure. David Burns and Maghnus Smyth are two such individuals.  Their 2009 Africa Cycle Tour, which saw them riding 17,500...

    Hard-core Adventurers Back for More

    Some people, it seems, will never get their fill of adventure. David Burns and Maghnus Smyth are two such individuals.  Their 2009 Africa Cycle Tour, which saw them riding 17,500...

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  • We’ve stumbled upon a Familiy on Bikes, a Teacher on Two Wheels and now a Vet on a Bike. Vet as in veterinarian, not someone who’s spent time in a...

    Vet on a Bike

    We’ve stumbled upon a Familiy on Bikes, a Teacher on Two Wheels and now a Vet on a Bike. Vet as in veterinarian, not someone who’s spent time in a...

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  • After earning a business and communications degree, New Zealander Hap Cameron could have settled into a comfy corporate job.  Instead, he began a quest to live and work on every...

    Hap Working the World

    After earning a business and communications degree, New Zealander Hap Cameron could have settled into a comfy corporate job.  Instead, he began a quest to live and work on every...

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  • Whether it’s tales of cycle touring across the sparsely-inhabited steppes of northern Mongolia or stories of what it’s like to pedal across the unpopulated inland plateaus above the Arctic Circle...

    Tom’s Bike Trip

    Whether it’s tales of cycle touring across the sparsely-inhabited steppes of northern Mongolia or stories of what it’s like to pedal across the unpopulated inland plateaus above the Arctic Circle...

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  • Some cyclists take it slow, others like to see just how far they can push themselves physically. Mat Smith and Tim Simpson plan to ride a tandem from the U.K....

    Cycle to Kenya in 70 Days

    Some cyclists take it slow, others like to see just how far they can push themselves physically. Mat Smith and Tim Simpson plan to ride a tandem from the U.K....

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  • Spencer and Ben are bicycling, blogging and filming their way through Africa from Johannesburg to Addis Ababa. As they say on their blog, that’s like Florida to Alaska, but longer...

    Two Wheels to Addis

    Spencer and Ben are bicycling, blogging and filming their way through Africa from Johannesburg to Addis Ababa. As they say on their blog, that’s like Florida to Alaska, but longer...

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  • South Africans Davey du Plessis and Ricki Nethercote are cycling the length of the African continent, from Egypt to South Africa.  The two-wheeled adventurers’ main aim is to dispel the...

    Through Africa for Africa

    South Africans Davey du Plessis and Ricki Nethercote are cycling the length of the African continent, from Egypt to South Africa.  The two-wheeled adventurers’ main aim is to dispel the...

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  • Rob McIntyre is cycling from the U.K. to Cape Town to experience the smells, sights, people and wildlife as they gradually pass by.  This is a bicycle tour of discovery and adventure, he emphasizes,...

    An adventure. Not a Time Trial.

    Rob McIntyre is cycling from the U.K. to Cape Town to experience the smells, sights, people and wildlife as they gradually pass by.  This is a bicycle tour of discovery and adventure, he emphasizes,...

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  • Brits Matt and Debbie are no super-athletes, just two ordinary people who’ve decided to follow their dreams and cycle from home all the way to South Africa.  Toad, the official...

    2 ordinary people on an extra-ordinary adventure

    Brits Matt and Debbie are no super-athletes, just two ordinary people who’ve decided to follow their dreams and cycle from home all the way to South Africa.  Toad, the official...

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