by admin | Aug 25, 2011 | Cape to Malawi 2011, Diary Archive
We left early for Lusaka this morning and met up with a Belgian rider, Dominique, who has come down the west coast of Africa and rode with us to Lusaka. Our riding style has become a lot more structured over the last few days so in order to cover large distances...
by admin | Aug 24, 2011 | Cape to Malawi 2011, Diary Archive
Because I had such a great time white water rafting when I came through here last time on my way to Cairo, I convinced all barring Fernando that it was definitely worthwhile and a great way to spend the day. It started with a 20 minute hike down the gorge which was...
by admin | Aug 23, 2011 | Cape to Malawi 2011, Diary Archive
We left Camp Kwando at about 8am for a short run to the Zambian border followed by another short hop to Livingstone where we are spending the next 2 nights at the Royal Livingstone on the banks of the Zambezi. Shaun and Simon have now also met up with us here and we...
by admin | Aug 22, 2011 | Cape to Malawi 2011, Diary Archive
Today was a short 450km ride from Rundu, up the dead straight Caprivi strip to Camp Kwando where we are spending the night. The last 30km is, once again, a treacherous soft sand road and Iain is doing brilliantly. The only problem Iain seems to have with his bike is...
by admin | Aug 21, 2011 | Cape to Malawi 2011, Diary Archive
Today was our third and last BIG ride for the first half of our journey. We did 750km from Windhoek to Rundu and managed to get there just before 4pm. The last 10km to the Kaisosi river lodge on the Kavango river is made up of soft river sand roads and anybody that...
by admin | Aug 20, 2011 | Cape to Malawi 2011, Diary Archive
The road from the Orange river on the Namibian border to Windhoek is long, straight, hot and desolate, the perfect recipe for testing ones ability to sleep whilst riding. Because today was an 800km day we decided to split it into 4 sections of stop and fill up, stop,...
