by admin | Jul 31, 2010 | Cape to Cairo 2010, Diary Archive
We are spending the day today in Bahir Dar in order to rest a little after yesterdays ride. Bahir Dar is on Lake Tana, a 3600 square Kilometre lake that has 14 islands on it. We were up relatively early to explore the area as Bahir Dar is the beginning of the...
by admin | Jul 30, 2010 | Cape to Cairo 2010, Diary Archive
We left Addis early today because we had a long 600km run to Bahir Dar. Ethiopia has without doubt been the most scenic, exotic and surprising part of our journey through Africa thus far. It is green and lush and none of our pre conceived ideas of drought and famine...
by admin | Jul 29, 2010 | Cape to Cairo 2010, Diary Archive
We are in Addis today and have decided to stay put for the day to rest and explore a little of the city. We are staying in an amazing hotel with world class facilities and have taken the opportunity to use them to its fullest. I was unaware that Ethiopia had been a...
by admin | Jul 28, 2010 | Cape to Cairo 2010, Diary Archive
We left Yabello late this morning because we needed to do some maintenance work on the bikes after the Marsabit road yesterday. We had 580km to do from Yabello to Addis Ababa and we assumed it would take us no more than 6 hours…well, you know what they say about...
by admin | Jul 27, 2010 | Cape to Cairo 2010, Diary Archive
We left Henry the Swiss in Marsabit in Northern Kenya this morning at 6.30am in order to try get the HELL road complete by Lunchtime. On reflection, and images aside, the accommodation at Henry’s turned out to be warm and comfortable notwithstanding the freezing visit...
by admin | Jul 26, 2010 | Cape to Cairo 2010, Diary Archive
We left Meru this morning at 7am. The road from Isiolo to Marsabit is the first stretch of the “hell road” although we were delighted to discover that the Chinese have been busy here too with their road building and as a result the first 120km of a total of 250km was...
