![What I like about the Namib desert and the Sperrgebiet is that, since nobody would want to live there for the lifestyle, every man-made structure carries a part of the […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/02/featured_aus-railways-horses-150x150.jpg "Last days in the Namib desert: railway stations and wild horses")
![Going back from Lüderitz, up to Aus, on that same an unique B4 road, I will this time stop often. Anyway, this time, the 120 km stretch with the gradient […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/02/featured_kolmanskop-150x150.jpg "Kolmanskop ghost town and the Namibian diamonds history")
![I find very interesting to learn about the Sperrgebiet for all the mystery that surrounds it. I already wrote a bit about it when I cycled through it from Aus. […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/02/featured_luderitz-peninsula-150x150.jpg "Looking for Sperrgebiet diamonds in the Lüderitz peninsula")
![What about a trip into the Sperrgebiet? With all the luck I had so far (not really, but the relative lack of bad luck makes me quite lucky), it’s not […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/02/featured_road-luderitz-150x150.jpg "Lüderitz, another town at the end of the world")
![In Namibia more than in any other country, my first thought, as soon as I get out of the tent, is to squeeze my tires. And this morning again, my […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/01/featured_D707-150x150.jpg "The D707, a fashionable notion of remoteness")
![This morning in the desert of the remote Sesriem is dedicated to bike maintenance. It’s not because I am so close to my goal now, with the hardest adventure and […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/12/featured_southern.namib_-150x150.jpg "The Southern Namib")
![Sand and cycling usually don’t go together. But I couldn’t miss the main attraction of Namibia, the highest sand dunes in the world in Sossusvlei. The dunes are located about […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/09/featured_sossusvlei_4882-150x150.jpg "Sossusvlei, at the top of a world of sand")
![Solitaire is not solitaire as in “I am alone”, it is simply my next town in the Namib desert. But yes, indeed, it’s a remote lonely town. I tried to […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/10/featured_solitaire_4694_Namibia-150x150.jpg "Solitaire")
![September 2014: I have already completed my cycling journey, safe and sound until Cape Town, but I didn’t finish blogging yet. It’s been two months since I left Windhoek and, […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/09/featured_spreetshoogte_4497-150x150.jpg "Dropping into the desert via the Spreetshoogte pass")
![The C28 gravel road I am taking from Swakopmund to Windhoek is dry and tough: less than 10 cars use it every day, but it has very rewarding views. It […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/07/featured_boshuapass_4226-150x150.jpg "C28, Boshua pass, the roller coaster road")
![The desert between Swakopmund and Windhoek, part of it in the Namib-Naukluft national park, is hiding lots of uranium. To continue with the mining in Namibia, having already visited two […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/07/featured_moonlandscape_4043-150x150.jpg "Uranium in the Namib-Naukluft desert")
![Waking up in the desert is fantastic. As fantastic as it is terrible to find a wind shelter for setting up my tent. Luckily the wind went quiet during […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/07/featured_salt-road_3757-150x150.jpg "Cycling the salt road on the Skeleton Coast")
![I’m ready for another expedition on a very little used track into Damaraland. My visit of the old Uis tin mine is leading me to another mine, the Brandberg West […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/07/featured_brandbergwest_3251-150x150.jpg "Mining expedition in the desert of Brandberg West")
![I have no legs today when I wake up, despite yesterday being short (50 KM) and rather sightseeing than cycling. Maybe the Namibian tourist season is picking up, because the […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/07/featured_brandberg_2856-150x150.jpg "The desert elephants of the Brandberg")
![I have received these last days two surprising emails from people who have found my blog, illustrating the magic of the internet. First, from Eric, who grew up in Cameroon, […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/06/featured_vingerklip_2532-150x150.jpg "Vingerklip")
![Despite Angola having many very good and brand new roads, I think I am destined to cycle only the worst of them. When they still exist. I wake up in […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/04/featured-road-didnt-exist_9544-150x150.jpg "The road that didn’t exist")
![The temperatures are decent in the morning and I will be able to start with pleasant kilometers. Once the sun is hitting my bike and panniers, right above my head, […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/04/featured-lompoul-8400-l-150x150.jpg "A desert on the coast")
![Before starting cycling this very long road of 2000 kilometers between Guelmim, the gate of the Sahara in the north, and Nouakchott in Mauritania, I wanted to know if I […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/03/featured-food-water-sahara-DSC_7579-150x150.jpg "Food and water to cycle across the Sahara desert")
![My initial plan for leaving Nouadhibou was to take the train until Choum, then a truck until Atar, then the desert road until Nouakchott. There are two desert roads: from […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/03/featured-mauritanian-desert-DSC_7885-150x150.jpg "Nouadhibou to Nouakchott, the Mauritanian desert")
![In the morning, the strong wind pushes me quickly through the last 35 kilometers until the border. After 2400 kilometers cycled in Morocco and 1400 km in Western Sahara, I […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/03/featured-morocco-mauritania-DSC_7630-150x150.jpg "From Morocco to Mauritania")
![When leaving Ali, Dakhla, and the good times behind, I make a detour through the south of the city and the bike shops. I have now 3 “cuts” on the […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/03/featured-south-western-sahara-DSC_7566-150x150.jpg "Until the south of the Western Sahara")
![“Hide your Moroccan flag until you get out of the city” tells me in Spanish a man passing by, as I am re-packing in Laayoune in the early morning before […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/03/featured-swallowing-kilometers-DSC_7407-150x150.jpg "Sahara: Swallowing kilometers")
![I leave Tan-Tan plage quite late and my objective is still to cycle across the Sahara. There are 200 kilometers until Tarfaya and those should be more “desertic” than the […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/03/featured-winds-of-change-DSC_7137-150x150.jpg "Sahara: Winds of change")
![After spending the whole morning cleaning and oiling my bike, thus avoiding to carry any longer the mud and little stones from 500 km ago, I can start my short […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/03/featured-entering-sahara-DSC_6970-150x150.jpg "Entering the Sahara")
![I am leaving Nkob late and with bad luck: there is wind and it’s against me. Perfectly against me. I revise my ambition downward and will try to just make […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/03/featured-fighting-the-wind-DSC_6604-150x150.jpg "Fighting with the wind")
![I go for a last bye-bye to the sand dunes, as close as I can get with the bike without sinking into the sand. All the Touareg camel guides look […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/02/featured-fossil-road-DSC_5941-150x150.jpg "The fossil road")
![I take a semi-rest day to enjoy the spectacular scenery of the Ziz gorges and return to the hot springs of Hammat Moulay Ali Cherif, this time to visit the […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/02/featured-along-ziz-DSC_5684-150x150.jpg "Along the Ziz to the sand dunes")
![After a breakfast powered by the Vache-qui-rit cheese, something that I am eating more here than anywhere else, I hit the road, for the first time looking like a desert. […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/02/featured-foretastedesert-IMG_1689-150x150.jpg "A foretaste of the desert")
![The morning starts with a visit of the abandoned factory that hosted me. Besides the two small offices looking fairly new, the main structure is a very long building that […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2012/12/featured-lost-movie-real-DSC_3611-150x150.jpg "Lost in a movie")
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![What I like about the Namib desert and the Sperrgebiet is that, since nobody would want to live there for the lifestyle, every man-made structure carries a part of the […]](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20115%20115'%3E%3C/svg%3E "Last days in the Namib desert: railway stations and wild horses")
Last days in the Namib desert: railway stations and wild horses
Posted on March 9, 2015 | 5 Comments What I like about the Namib desert and the Sperrgebiet is that, since nobody would want to live there for the lifestyle, every man-made structure carries a part of the […] Kolmanskop ghost town and the Namibian diamonds history
Posted on February 18, 2015 | 8 Comments Going back from Lüderitz, up to Aus, on that same an unique B4 road, I will this time stop often. Anyway, this time, the 120 km stretch with the gradient […] Looking for Sperrgebiet diamonds in the Lüderitz peninsula
Posted on February 13, 2015 | 1 Comment I find very interesting to learn about the Sperrgebiet for all the mystery that surrounds it. I already wrote a bit about it when I cycled through it from Aus. […] Lüderitz, another town at the end of the world
Posted on February 9, 2015 | 7 Comments What about a trip into the Sperrgebiet? With all the luck I had so far (not really, but the relative lack of bad luck makes me quite lucky), it’s not […] The D707, a fashionable notion of remoteness
Posted on January 27, 2015 | 13 Comments In Namibia more than in any other country, my first thought, as soon as I get out of the tent, is to squeeze my tires. And this morning again, my […] The Southern Namib
Posted on January 7, 2015 | 5 Comments This morning in the desert of the remote Sesriem is dedicated to bike maintenance. It’s not because I am so close to my goal now, with the hardest adventure and […] Sossusvlei, at the top of a world of sand
Posted on December 16, 2014 | 3 Comments Sand and cycling usually don’t go together. But I couldn’t miss the main attraction of Namibia, the highest sand dunes in the world in Sossusvlei. The dunes are located about […] Solitaire
Posted on November 4, 2014 | No Comments Solitaire is not solitaire as in “I am alone”, it is simply my next town in the Namib desert. But yes, indeed, it’s a remote lonely town. I tried to […] Dropping into the desert via the Spreetshoogte pass
Posted on September 30, 2014 | 4 Comments September 2014: I have already completed my cycling journey, safe and sound until Cape Town, but I didn’t finish blogging yet. It’s been two months since I left Windhoek and, […] C28, Boshua pass, the roller coaster road
Posted on July 20, 2014 | 2 Comments The C28 gravel road I am taking from Swakopmund to Windhoek is dry and tough: less than 10 cars use it every day, but it has very rewarding views. It […] Uranium in the Namib-Naukluft desert
Posted on July 15, 2014 | 2 Comments The desert between Swakopmund and Windhoek, part of it in the Namib-Naukluft national park, is hiding lots of uranium. To continue with the mining in Namibia, having already visited two […] Cycling the salt road on the Skeleton Coast
Posted on July 10, 2014 | 6 Comments Waking up in the desert is fantastic. As fantastic as it is terrible to find a wind shelter for setting up my tent. Luckily the wind went quiet during […] Mining expedition in the desert of Brandberg West
Posted on July 5, 2014 | 10 Comments I’m ready for another expedition on a very little used track into Damaraland. My visit of the old Uis tin mine is leading me to another mine, the Brandberg West […] The desert elephants of the Brandberg
Posted on July 1, 2014 | 13 Comments I have no legs today when I wake up, despite yesterday being short (50 KM) and rather sightseeing than cycling. Maybe the Namibian tourist season is picking up, because the […] Vingerklip
Posted on June 23, 2014 | 3 Comments I have received these last days two surprising emails from people who have found my blog, illustrating the magic of the internet. First, from Eric, who grew up in Cameroon, […] The road that didn’t exist
Posted on April 14, 2014 | 5 Comments Despite Angola having many very good and brand new roads, I think I am destined to cycle only the worst of them. When they still exist. I wake up in […] A desert on the coast
Posted on April 30, 2013 | 1 Comment The temperatures are decent in the morning and I will be able to start with pleasant kilometers. Once the sun is hitting my bike and panniers, right above my head, […] Food and water to cycle across the Sahara desert
Posted on April 13, 2013 | 11 Comments Before starting cycling this very long road of 2000 kilometers between Guelmim, the gate of the Sahara in the north, and Nouakchott in Mauritania, I wanted to know if I […] Nouadhibou to Nouakchott, the Mauritanian desert
Posted on April 10, 2013 | 9 Comments My initial plan for leaving Nouadhibou was to take the train until Choum, then a truck until Atar, then the desert road until Nouakchott. There are two desert roads: from […] From Morocco to Mauritania
Posted on April 4, 2013 | 18 Comments In the morning, the strong wind pushes me quickly through the last 35 kilometers until the border. After 2400 kilometers cycled in Morocco and 1400 km in Western Sahara, I […] Until the south of the Western Sahara
Posted on April 1, 2013 | 3 Comments When leaving Ali, Dakhla, and the good times behind, I make a detour through the south of the city and the bike shops. I have now 3 “cuts” on the […] Sahara: Swallowing kilometers
Posted on March 23, 2013 | 4 Comments “Hide your Moroccan flag until you get out of the city” tells me in Spanish a man passing by, as I am re-packing in Laayoune in the early morning before […] Sahara: Winds of change
Posted on March 20, 2013 | 5 Comments I leave Tan-Tan plage quite late and my objective is still to cycle across the Sahara. There are 200 kilometers until Tarfaya and those should be more “desertic” than the […] Entering the Sahara
Posted on March 15, 2013 | 2 Comments After spending the whole morning cleaning and oiling my bike, thus avoiding to carry any longer the mud and little stones from 500 km ago, I can start my short […] Fighting with the wind
Posted on March 5, 2013 | No Comments I am leaving Nkob late and with bad luck: there is wind and it’s against me. Perfectly against me. I revise my ambition downward and will try to just make […] The fossil road
Posted on February 21, 2013 | 2 Comments I go for a last bye-bye to the sand dunes, as close as I can get with the bike without sinking into the sand. All the Touareg camel guides look […] Along the Ziz to the sand dunes
Posted on February 18, 2013 | 1 Comment I take a semi-rest day to enjoy the spectacular scenery of the Ziz gorges and return to the hot springs of Hammat Moulay Ali Cherif, this time to visit the […] A foretaste of the desert
Posted on February 16, 2013 | 7 Comments After a breakfast powered by the Vache-qui-rit cheese, something that I am eating more here than anywhere else, I hit the road, for the first time looking like a desert. […] Lost in a movie
Posted on December 25, 2012 | 2 Comments The morning starts with a visit of the abandoned factory that hosted me. Besides the two small offices looking fairly new, the main structure is a very long building that […]
List of posts
Last days in the Namib desert: railway stations and wild horses
Posted on March 9, 2015 | 5 CommentsWhat I like about the Namib desert and the Sperrgebiet is that, since nobody would want to live there for the lifestyle, every man-made structure carries a part of the […]Kolmanskop ghost town and the Namibian diamonds history
Posted on February 18, 2015 | 8 CommentsGoing back from Lüderitz, up to Aus, on that same an unique B4 road, I will this time stop often. Anyway, this time, the 120 km stretch with the gradient […]Looking for Sperrgebiet diamonds in the Lüderitz peninsula
Posted on February 13, 2015 | 1 CommentI find very interesting to learn about the Sperrgebiet for all the mystery that surrounds it. I already wrote a bit about it when I cycled through it from Aus. […]Lüderitz, another town at the end of the world
Posted on February 9, 2015 | 7 CommentsWhat about a trip into the Sperrgebiet? With all the luck I had so far (not really, but the relative lack of bad luck makes me quite lucky), it’s not […]The D707, a fashionable notion of remoteness
Posted on January 27, 2015 | 13 CommentsIn Namibia more than in any other country, my first thought, as soon as I get out of the tent, is to squeeze my tires. And this morning again, my […]The Southern Namib
Posted on January 7, 2015 | 5 CommentsThis morning in the desert of the remote Sesriem is dedicated to bike maintenance. It’s not because I am so close to my goal now, with the hardest adventure and […]Sossusvlei, at the top of a world of sand
Posted on December 16, 2014 | 3 CommentsSand and cycling usually don’t go together. But I couldn’t miss the main attraction of Namibia, the highest sand dunes in the world in Sossusvlei. The dunes are located about […]Solitaire
Posted on November 4, 2014 | No CommentsSolitaire is not solitaire as in “I am alone”, it is simply my next town in the Namib desert. But yes, indeed, it’s a remote lonely town. I tried to […]Dropping into the desert via the Spreetshoogte pass
Posted on September 30, 2014 | 4 CommentsSeptember 2014: I have already completed my cycling journey, safe and sound until Cape Town, but I didn’t finish blogging yet. It’s been two months since I left Windhoek and, […]C28, Boshua pass, the roller coaster road
Posted on July 20, 2014 | 2 CommentsThe C28 gravel road I am taking from Swakopmund to Windhoek is dry and tough: less than 10 cars use it every day, but it has very rewarding views. It […]Uranium in the Namib-Naukluft desert
Posted on July 15, 2014 | 2 CommentsThe desert between Swakopmund and Windhoek, part of it in the Namib-Naukluft national park, is hiding lots of uranium. To continue with the mining in Namibia, having already visited two […]Cycling the salt road on the Skeleton Coast
Posted on July 10, 2014 | 6 CommentsWaking up in the desert is fantastic. As fantastic as it is terrible to find a wind shelter for setting up my tent. Luckily the wind went quiet during […]Mining expedition in the desert of Brandberg West
Posted on July 5, 2014 | 10 CommentsI’m ready for another expedition on a very little used track into Damaraland. My visit of the old Uis tin mine is leading me to another mine, the Brandberg West […]The desert elephants of the Brandberg
Posted on July 1, 2014 | 13 CommentsI have no legs today when I wake up, despite yesterday being short (50 KM) and rather sightseeing than cycling. Maybe the Namibian tourist season is picking up, because the […]Vingerklip
Posted on June 23, 2014 | 3 CommentsI have received these last days two surprising emails from people who have found my blog, illustrating the magic of the internet. First, from Eric, who grew up in Cameroon, […]The road that didn’t exist
Posted on April 14, 2014 | 5 CommentsDespite Angola having many very good and brand new roads, I think I am destined to cycle only the worst of them. When they still exist. I wake up in […]A desert on the coast
Posted on April 30, 2013 | 1 CommentThe temperatures are decent in the morning and I will be able to start with pleasant kilometers. Once the sun is hitting my bike and panniers, right above my head, […]Food and water to cycle across the Sahara desert
Posted on April 13, 2013 | 11 CommentsBefore starting cycling this very long road of 2000 kilometers between Guelmim, the gate of the Sahara in the north, and Nouakchott in Mauritania, I wanted to know if I […]Nouadhibou to Nouakchott, the Mauritanian desert
Posted on April 10, 2013 | 9 CommentsMy initial plan for leaving Nouadhibou was to take the train until Choum, then a truck until Atar, then the desert road until Nouakchott. There are two desert roads: from […]From Morocco to Mauritania
Posted on April 4, 2013 | 18 CommentsIn the morning, the strong wind pushes me quickly through the last 35 kilometers until the border. After 2400 kilometers cycled in Morocco and 1400 km in Western Sahara, I […]Until the south of the Western Sahara
Posted on April 1, 2013 | 3 CommentsWhen leaving Ali, Dakhla, and the good times behind, I make a detour through the south of the city and the bike shops. I have now 3 “cuts” on the […]Sahara: Swallowing kilometers
Posted on March 23, 2013 | 4 Comments“Hide your Moroccan flag until you get out of the city” tells me in Spanish a man passing by, as I am re-packing in Laayoune in the early morning before […]Sahara: Winds of change
Posted on March 20, 2013 | 5 CommentsI leave Tan-Tan plage quite late and my objective is still to cycle across the Sahara. There are 200 kilometers until Tarfaya and those should be more “desertic” than the […]Entering the Sahara
Posted on March 15, 2013 | 2 CommentsAfter spending the whole morning cleaning and oiling my bike, thus avoiding to carry any longer the mud and little stones from 500 km ago, I can start my short […]Fighting with the wind
Posted on March 5, 2013 | No CommentsI am leaving Nkob late and with bad luck: there is wind and it’s against me. Perfectly against me. I revise my ambition downward and will try to just make […]The fossil road
Posted on February 21, 2013 | 2 CommentsI go for a last bye-bye to the sand dunes, as close as I can get with the bike without sinking into the sand. All the Touareg camel guides look […]Along the Ziz to the sand dunes
Posted on February 18, 2013 | 1 CommentI take a semi-rest day to enjoy the spectacular scenery of the Ziz gorges and return to the hot springs of Hammat Moulay Ali Cherif, this time to visit the […]A foretaste of the desert
Posted on February 16, 2013 | 7 CommentsAfter a breakfast powered by the Vache-qui-rit cheese, something that I am eating more here than anywhere else, I hit the road, for the first time looking like a desert. […]Lost in a movie
Posted on December 25, 2012 | 2 CommentsThe morning starts with a visit of the abandoned factory that hosted me. Besides the two small offices looking fairly new, the main structure is a very long building that […]
