![And another kilomilestone, 25000 KM today! It’s now less than 900 km to Cape Town as the crow flies. I’m in Aus, a village in Southern Namibia, the first village […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/07/20140726_25000km_s-150x150.jpg "25000 KM !")
![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")
![July 14th, and another 23°28′, but in the southern hemisphere this time: I just passed the Tropic of Capricorn. I had met the Tropic of Cancer in Western Sahara in […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/07/20140714_001_tropic-of-capricorn-150x150.jpg "Tropic of Capricorn")
![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")
![“When you leave, come to me directly instead of going to the reception, okay?“, tells me the security guard of the Khorixas NWR rest camp as I am packing up. […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/06/featured_twyfelfontein_2734-150x150.jpg "Twyfelfontein, towards dryer lands")
![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")
![I have lost maybe seven or eight kilos since the last time I weighed myself, which I think is as far back as Monrovia. I was surprised when I played […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/06/featured-waterberg_2271-150x150.jpg "A meteorite around the Waterberg")
![And 24000 KM in the Swakop valley on the way to Windhoek. I woke up today in my tent in what is called “moon landscape”. Luckily I didn’t get a […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/06/20140609_001-150x150.jpg "24000 KM !")
![Namibia is not Gabon. You can’t just cycle through the Etosha National Park like I did through the Lope, with a few people saying “oh, and if there are elephants […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/05/featured_etosha-elephant_1945-150x150.jpg "Etosha National Park")
![When I stopped for a few nights at the Etosha Café (can be called Etosha Kef with a local touch) in Tsumeb, I didn’t know that I would stay there for […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/05/featured_tsumeb_IMG0425-150x150.jpg "Tsumeb")
![More than half of the entire Namibian population lives in Ovamboland, on just 6% of the territory. The Ovambo are by far the country’s largest ethnic group, and the term […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/05/featured_oshakati-boring-road-DSC_1457-150x150.jpg "Ovamboland, the boring road")
![My break at the Kunene river lodge is like living another life. In a short week staying there, I enjoy delicious breakfasts over the Cunene river and I can blog facing […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/05/featured_himba-IMG_0220-150x150.jpg "The Himba of Namibia")
![After a long break in Tsumeb, I am on the road again and reached 23000 KM between Otjiwarongo and Outjo. I am on my way to the coast and Swakopmund […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/05/20140522_004_23000km_s-150x150.jpg "23000 KM !")
![I was doing my business on a large rock this morning, with a view on the Ruacana dam lake, when a small crocodile ran past me! I must have surprised […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/05/featured-ruacana_1324-150x150.jpg "Ruacana")
![What will the dirt road look like after all the rain? Lightnings struck almost all night long. It was one of the most violent weather I have seen on my […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/05/featured-cunene-flood_1121-150x150.jpg "Cunene, the last province of Angola")
![A mob of youngsters arresting me? That’s what’s happening for the same usual silly reason: the obsession with the control of papers of anyone in Angola. My shortcut […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/05/featured-huila-jau_1048-150x150.jpg "Beautiful Huíla and Southern Angola")
![The mighty but tamed Serra da Chela mountain range is surrounding me in the small village of Catanda. I lost 1000 meters of elevation since Lubango and I have to […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/05/featured-serra-da-leba_0969-150x150.jpg "Fantastic scenery around Lubango: Mucubals and Serra da Leba")
![The scenery around Lubango is fantastic. I make a point to visit the Fenda da Tundavala, a well-known gorge that plunges 1000 meters down to the valley below, elected one […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/04/featured-tundavala_0608-150x150.jpg "Tundavala")
![Finally! After cycling 1750 kilometers during 23 days in a row, I can finally rest, this early March, based at the catholic mission of Lubango. That was too much, even […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/04/featured-lubango-cristorei_0488-150x150.jpg "Lubango: city, carnaval and Cristo Rei")
![Once out of the main tar roads, Angola is a very pretty and quiet countryside. Luckily not spotted by anyone at my camping spot, I can enjoy a lazy morning. I […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/04/featured_caluquembe_0213-150x150.jpg "Angola, where I am called Chinese all the time")
![The worst conditions to apply new bandages on my ankles wounds are brought together this morning: sitting on a stone, holding my feet, I must fight with the chicken that […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/04/featured-balombo_9920-150x150.jpg "The Abominable Cyclingman")
![It has already been 20 days in Angola and I haven’t even cycled halfway through the country. I knew it would be tough to reach Namibia within 30 days, and […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/04/featured-ukuseles_9751-150x150.jpg "Through a maze of cornfields")
![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")
![Scritch scritch scritch … I heard those noises all night long. It was the mice eating the newspapers used to decorate the walls of my rudimentary house. I slept very […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/03/featured-dembos-hills_9278-150x150.jpg "Tough roads and police in the Dembos hills")
![Bernardo says that the smoke from the gas flares killed all the food in the area. But luckily, he has access to drinking water with the solar-powered pump/tank system installed […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/03/featured-coast-zaire-province_8682-150x150.jpg "Along the coast of the Zaire province")
![This part of Africa on the Atlantic coast is quite tricky: between the southern parallels 5° and 6°, from Pointe-Noire (Congo) to Soyo (Angola), there are three border crossings within […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/03/featured-chata-cabinda-soyo_8547-150x150.jpg "Congo – Cabinda – DRC – Angola, quite an adventure")
![I am reaching 22000 KM just as I exit Angola after close to 3000 kilometers in the country. I think I took all the worst roads I could there. Angola […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/03/20140322_004_22000km_s-150x150.jpg "22000 KM !")
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- 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
![And another kilomilestone, 25000 KM today! It’s now less than 900 km to Cape Town as the crow flies. I’m in Aus, a village in Southern Namibia, the first village […]](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20115%20115'%3E%3C/svg%3E "25000 KM !")
25000 KM !
Posted on July 27, 2014 | 8 CommentsAnd another kilomilestone, 25000 KM today! It’s now less than 900 km to Cape Town as the crow flies. I’m in Aus, a village in Southern Namibia, the first village […]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 […]Tropic of Capricorn
Posted on July 14, 2014 | 1 CommentJuly 14th, and another 23°28′, but in the southern hemisphere this time: I just passed the Tropic of Capricorn. I had met the Tropic of Cancer in Western Sahara in […]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 | 14 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 […]Twyfelfontein, towards dryer lands
Posted on June 27, 2014 | 1 Comment“When you leave, come to me directly instead of going to the reception, okay?“, tells me the security guard of the Khorixas NWR rest camp as I am packing up. […]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, […]A meteorite around the Waterberg
Posted on June 19, 2014 | 3 CommentsI have lost maybe seven or eight kilos since the last time I weighed myself, which I think is as far back as Monrovia. I was surprised when I played […]24000 KM !
Posted on June 10, 2014 | 1 CommentAnd 24000 KM in the Swakop valley on the way to Windhoek. I woke up today in my tent in what is called “moon landscape”. Luckily I didn’t get a […]Etosha National Park
Posted on June 2, 2014 | 2 CommentsNamibia is not Gabon. You can’t just cycle through the Etosha National Park like I did through the Lope, with a few people saying “oh, and if there are elephants […]Tsumeb
Posted on May 29, 2014 | 2 CommentsWhen I stopped for a few nights at the Etosha Café (can be called Etosha Kef with a local touch) in Tsumeb, I didn’t know that I would stay there for […]Ovamboland, the boring road
Posted on May 26, 2014 | 5 CommentsMore than half of the entire Namibian population lives in Ovamboland, on just 6% of the territory. The Ovambo are by far the country’s largest ethnic group, and the term […]The Himba of Namibia
Posted on May 23, 2014 | 3 CommentsMy break at the Kunene river lodge is like living another life. In a short week staying there, I enjoy delicious breakfasts over the Cunene river and I can blog facing […]23000 KM !
Posted on May 22, 2014 | 3 CommentsAfter a long break in Tsumeb, I am on the road again and reached 23000 KM between Otjiwarongo and Outjo. I am on my way to the coast and Swakopmund […]Ruacana
Posted on May 20, 2014 | 4 CommentsI was doing my business on a large rock this morning, with a view on the Ruacana dam lake, when a small crocodile ran past me! I must have surprised […]Cunene, the last province of Angola
Posted on May 17, 2014 | 2 CommentsWhat will the dirt road look like after all the rain? Lightnings struck almost all night long. It was one of the most violent weather I have seen on my […]Beautiful Huíla and Southern Angola
Posted on May 14, 2014 | 1 CommentA mob of youngsters arresting me? That’s what’s happening for the same usual silly reason: the obsession with the control of papers of anyone in Angola. My shortcut […]Fantastic scenery around Lubango: Mucubals and Serra da Leba
Posted on May 11, 2014 | 10 CommentsThe mighty but tamed Serra da Chela mountain range is surrounding me in the small village of Catanda. I lost 1000 meters of elevation since Lubango and I have to […]Tundavala
Posted on May 8, 2014 | No CommentsThe scenery around Lubango is fantastic. I make a point to visit the Fenda da Tundavala, a well-known gorge that plunges 1000 meters down to the valley below, elected one […]Lubango: city, carnaval and Cristo Rei
Posted on May 5, 2014 | 8 CommentsFinally! After cycling 1750 kilometers during 23 days in a row, I can finally rest, this early March, based at the catholic mission of Lubango. That was too much, even […]Angola, where I am called Chinese all the time
Posted on May 2, 2014 | 2 CommentsOnce out of the main tar roads, Angola is a very pretty and quiet countryside. Luckily not spotted by anyone at my camping spot, I can enjoy a lazy morning. I […]The Abominable Cyclingman
Posted on April 27, 2014 | 3 CommentsThe worst conditions to apply new bandages on my ankles wounds are brought together this morning: sitting on a stone, holding my feet, I must fight with the chicken that […]Through a maze of cornfields
Posted on April 18, 2014 | 2 CommentsIt has already been 20 days in Angola and I haven’t even cycled halfway through the country. I knew it would be tough to reach Namibia within 30 days, and […]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 […]Tough roads and police in the Dembos hills
Posted on April 3, 2014 | 2 CommentsScritch scritch scritch … I heard those noises all night long. It was the mice eating the newspapers used to decorate the walls of my rudimentary house. I slept very […]Along the coast of the Zaire province
Posted on March 30, 2014 | No CommentsBernardo says that the smoke from the gas flares killed all the food in the area. But luckily, he has access to drinking water with the solar-powered pump/tank system installed […]Congo – Cabinda – DRC – Angola, quite an adventure
Posted on March 26, 2014 | 20 CommentsThis part of Africa on the Atlantic coast is quite tricky: between the southern parallels 5° and 6°, from Pointe-Noire (Congo) to Soyo (Angola), there are three border crossings within […]22000 KM !
Posted on March 22, 2014 | 2 CommentsI am reaching 22000 KM just as I exit Angola after close to 3000 kilometers in the country. I think I took all the worst roads I could there. Angola […]
