![These three posts are not about cycling, but about my experience as a passenger on a cargo ship, back to Europe from Cape Town. There are not many reports about […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/05/featured_cargotrip1_7731-150x150.jpg "Freighter travel (1/3) Departure and Walvis Bay")
![One question that came often to me was “where do you find all that money to travel?“. Well, first, I don’t just “find it“, it’s my savings, and more relevantly […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/05/featured_howmuchdiditcost-150x150.jpg "How much did it cost?")
![I had a 成功お守り in my handlebar bag during my whole journey, and a picture with it at the Cape of Good Hope looks like it actually worked: An お守り omamori […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/05/featured_dispensablethings_0216-150x150.jpg "My dispensable pieces of equipment")
![For the last country on my Trans-African cycling journey, South Africa, I didn’t have enough videos to make a short movie. Therefore I included a recap of the 23 countries […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/05/vidSouthAfrica_snapshot-150x150.jpg "Cycling South Africa, actually the whole Africa to Good Hope, and back by ship")
![The adventure is over, and this article is my attempt at summarizing 26600 KM and 666 days into one single page. One HTML page, of course. I will illustrate it with 30 items from […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/05/featured_freewheely-wrap-up-150x150.jpg "Freewheely, wrapping up the adventure")
![The weather was cloudy when I reached Cape Town last week, but today, the last day of August, will be perfect for my last stage of cycling Africa. I want […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/04/featured_capetown-goodhope-150x150.jpg "Cape Town and Good Hope")
![Three days to the end of the journey! I leave Amanda in Lambert’s Bay and continue onto the railway service road, that same nice gravel road cutting straight through the coastal landscape […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/03/featured_west-coast-road-150x150.jpg "The West Coast road")
![This is the sequel of Cycling in Namibia part 1 (North), with 1400 new kilometers from Windhoek to the Orange river, bordering South Africa, in July and August 2014. This […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/04/vidNamSouth_snapshot-150x150.jpg "Cycling Namibia – Part 2 (South) – From Windhoek to the Orange")
![My cycling-brandy-braai partners stick to the main road, the N7 until Nuwerus. But after a great day around Leliefontein yesterday, I can’t help leaving Garies for the dirt again. Via […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/04/featured_SA-moremeatsomewine_1011-150x150.jpg "More meat and some wine")
![Namibia is the country I’ve spent the most time in, about five months. And I made two videos, one for the half north of Windhoek, with amazing scenery, and one for the […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/04/featured_vidNamNorth_snapshot-150x150.jpg "Cycling Namibia – Part 1 (North) – From the Kunene to Windhoek")
![South Africa, my last country! I almost made it! I am only 700 km away from Cape Town, at the bottom of the continent. But let’s not celebrate yet, since […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/03/featured_SA-lastcountry-kamieskroon_6412-150x150.jpg "Into South Africa, the last country")
![I have barely seen any greenery in a long time, actually since I left Ovamboland in the north. Namibia has only two perennial rivers, the Cunene and the Orange, and […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/03/featured-orange-river_6166-150x150.jpg "Namibia’s best: cycling along the Orange river")
![The biggest surprise on my whole Trans-African journey was definitely Angola. As the vast country is filled with stunning scenery, it took me quite some time to compile an 18 […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/03/vid.Angola_snapshot-150x150.jpg "Cycling Angola video")
![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")
![This is the shortest and least representative video of all. The crossing of the Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazza) represented only 700 KM, so I had only a few movie clips […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/02/featured_vid.Congo_snapshot-150x150.jpg "Video: cycling Congo, and some insects")
![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")
![My favorite countries have been ones in which I could cycle from stunning mountains to never-ending deserts. It sounds like Morocco and Namibia. I liked Angola a lot too. But […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/01/vid.Gabon_snapshot-150x150.jpg "A video tour of Gabon")
![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")
![When I struggle on the road, I rarely think “oh, let me shoot a video of that”. It’s the reverse effect of seeing a breathtaking landscape and taking dozens of […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/01/featured_vid.Cameroon_snapshot-150x150.jpg "Cycling Cameroon, the video")
![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")
![These are my least least prolific countries in terms of footage, so that makes six countries in 10 minutes. Most of my videos of West Africa actually come from Sierra […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/12/WAlibegeria_snapshot-150x150.jpg "Cycling West Africa, a video from Liberia to Nigeria")
![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")
![This was a bad time for travelling in Sierra Leone, right in the rainy season. Winds and storms can be violent and last long. This video of the 676 kilometers […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/12/video_WAsierraleone_snapshot-150x150.jpg "Cycling Sierra Leone: kids, rain and mud in video")
![The videos are back! I had lots of time to be efficient on the cargo vessel that took me back from Cape Town to Rotterdam in three weeks. Without internet […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/12/WAseneguinea_snapshot-150x150.jpg "Cycling West Africa, first video")
![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")
![Almost two years on the road, and 26500 kilometers cycled with my own legs, here I reach my final destination, Cape Town, South Africa. Success! When I left Zürich, […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/08/capetown_6842-150x150.jpg "Cape Town, I made it!")
![Very close to the end, I reached yesterday my 26000th kilometer, in South Africa, in the hills of Namakwaland. The tough but scenic 90 km on gravel brought me for […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/08/20140819_26000km-s-150x150.jpg "26000 KM, the last kilomilestone!")
All countries (by latitude)
- Before Departure (6)
- Switzerland (5)
- France (11)
- Andorra (1)
- Spain (16)
- Morocco (17)
- Sahara (9)
- Mauritania (7)
- Senegal (9)
- The Gambia (2)
- Guinea-Bissau (4)
- Guinea (6)
- Sierra Leone (8)
- Liberia (8)
- Ivory Coast (6)
- Ghana (6)
- Togo (2)
- Benin (4)
- Nigeria (7)
- Cameroon (11)
- Gabon (8)
- Congo (6)
- Angola (17)
- Namibia (30)
- South Africa (8)
- Synopsis (9)
Latest adventures
![These three posts are not about cycling, but about my experience as a passenger on a cargo ship, back to Europe from Cape Town. There are not many reports about […]](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20115%20115'%3E%3C/svg%3E "Freighter travel (1/3) Departure and Walvis Bay")
Freighter travel (1/3) Departure and Walvis Bay
Posted on June 12, 2015 | 7 CommentsThese three posts are not about cycling, but about my experience as a passenger on a cargo ship, back to Europe from Cape Town. There are not many reports about […]How much did it cost?
Posted on May 29, 2015 | 14 CommentsOne question that came often to me was “where do you find all that money to travel?“. Well, first, I don’t just “find it“, it’s my savings, and more relevantly […]My dispensable pieces of equipment
Posted on May 25, 2015 | 1 CommentI had a 成功お守り in my handlebar bag during my whole journey, and a picture with it at the Cape of Good Hope looks like it actually worked: An お守り omamori […]Cycling South Africa, actually the whole Africa to Good Hope, and back by ship
Posted on May 19, 2015 | 2 CommentsFor the last country on my Trans-African cycling journey, South Africa, I didn’t have enough videos to make a short movie. Therefore I included a recap of the 23 countries […]Freewheely, wrapping up the adventure
Posted on May 12, 2015 | 3 CommentsThe adventure is over, and this article is my attempt at summarizing 26600 KM and 666 days into one single page. One HTML page, of course. I will illustrate it with 30 items from […]Cape Town and Good Hope
Posted on May 5, 2015 | 6 CommentsThe weather was cloudy when I reached Cape Town last week, but today, the last day of August, will be perfect for my last stage of cycling Africa. I want […]The West Coast road
Posted on April 28, 2015 | 1 CommentThree days to the end of the journey! I leave Amanda in Lambert’s Bay and continue onto the railway service road, that same nice gravel road cutting straight through the coastal landscape […]Cycling Namibia – Part 2 (South) – From Windhoek to the Orange
Posted on April 21, 2015 | 3 CommentsThis is the sequel of Cycling in Namibia part 1 (North), with 1400 new kilometers from Windhoek to the Orange river, bordering South Africa, in July and August 2014. This […]More meat and some wine
Posted on April 14, 2015 | No CommentsMy cycling-brandy-braai partners stick to the main road, the N7 until Nuwerus. But after a great day around Leliefontein yesterday, I can’t help leaving Garies for the dirt again. Via […]Cycling Namibia – Part 1 (North) – From the Kunene to Windhoek
Posted on April 7, 2015 | 8 CommentsNamibia is the country I’ve spent the most time in, about five months. And I made two videos, one for the half north of Windhoek, with amazing scenery, and one for the […]Into South Africa, the last country
Posted on April 1, 2015 | 7 CommentsSouth Africa, my last country! I almost made it! I am only 700 km away from Cape Town, at the bottom of the continent. But let’s not celebrate yet, since […]Namibia’s best: cycling along the Orange river
Posted on March 26, 2015 | 2 CommentsI have barely seen any greenery in a long time, actually since I left Ovamboland in the north. Namibia has only two perennial rivers, the Cunene and the Orange, and […]Cycling Angola video
Posted on March 13, 2015 | 2 CommentsThe biggest surprise on my whole Trans-African journey was definitely Angola. As the vast country is filled with stunning scenery, it took me quite some time to compile an 18 […]Last days in the Namib desert: railway stations and wild horses
Posted on March 9, 2015 | 6 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 […]Video: cycling Congo, and some insects
Posted on February 24, 2015 | 2 CommentsThis is the shortest and least representative video of all. The crossing of the Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazza) represented only 700 KM, so I had only a few movie clips […]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 | 2 CommentsI 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 […]A video tour of Gabon
Posted on February 2, 2015 | 2 CommentsMy favorite countries have been ones in which I could cycle from stunning mountains to never-ending deserts. It sounds like Morocco and Namibia. I liked Angola a lot too. But […]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 […]Cycling Cameroon, the video
Posted on January 16, 2015 | 2 CommentsWhen I struggle on the road, I rarely think “oh, let me shoot a video of that”. It’s the reverse effect of seeing a breathtaking landscape and taking dozens of […]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 […]Cycling West Africa, a video from Liberia to Nigeria
Posted on December 21, 2014 | 1 CommentThese are my least least prolific countries in terms of footage, so that makes six countries in 10 minutes. Most of my videos of West Africa actually come from Sierra […]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 […]Cycling Sierra Leone: kids, rain and mud in video
Posted on December 11, 2014 | 4 CommentsThis was a bad time for travelling in Sierra Leone, right in the rainy season. Winds and storms can be violent and last long. This video of the 676 kilometers […]Cycling West Africa, first video
Posted on December 2, 2014 | 4 CommentsThe videos are back! I had lots of time to be efficient on the cargo vessel that took me back from Cape Town to Rotterdam in three weeks. Without internet […]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, […]Cape Town, I made it!
Posted on August 27, 2014 | 55 CommentsAlmost two years on the road, and 26500 kilometers cycled with my own legs, here I reach my final destination, Cape Town, South Africa. Success! When I left Zürich, […]26000 KM, the last kilomilestone!
Posted on August 20, 2014 | 12 CommentsVery close to the end, I reached yesterday my 26000th kilometer, in South Africa, in the hills of Namakwaland. The tough but scenic 90 km on gravel brought me for […]
