![The good side of being out of the bush is that it reminds me of all the pleasures of life, especially food. There is a patisserie in Pointe-Noire and the […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/02/featured-pointe-noire_8154-150x150.jpg "Pointe-Noire and the Kouilou, an oil story")
![That is more than half a round the world journey (Earth’s circumference at the Equator: 40075 km) and, still riding the least frequented dirt roads when possible, my equipment is […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/02/20140227_001_21000km_s-150x150.jpg "21000 KM !")
![The fiber optic is in Dolisie since 2009, but it is connected to nothing. The internet cafés are slower than a 2G network. Since the youth can access Facebook on […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/02/featured-mayombe_7843-150x150.jpg "Le massif du Mayombe")
![The driver ants (also known as siafu ants, army ants) have been crossing crossing my dirt roads quite often, since West Africa. I am not sure exactly which species I have encountered, […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/02/featured-across-ants_7636-150x150.jpg "Across columns of driver ants")
![We leave Gabon without having seen any elephant, and with the hope of finding more food in Congo. The Gabonese immigration post is in Boumango, 17 kilometers before the real […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/02/featured-first-steps-congo_7518-150x150.jpg "First steps in Congo")
![Twenty thousand kilometers and still on the road. Angola is a cycling paradise, with stunning landscapes and many brand new (Chinese) roads. Yet, avoiding the traffic and the very expensive […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/02/20140212_002_s_20000km-150x150.jpg "20000 KM !")
![The French consul takes us to the consulate of Congo in Franceville, and applying for a visa when he sits next to us becomes much easier: the usual requirements and […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/01/featured-exit-gabon_7299-150x150.jpg "Franceville, following in the footsteps of Brazza")
![The bees are absolutely everywhere. It is with good reason that the rainforest is called until Lastoursville “la forêt des abeilles”, the forest of the bees. They stick to my […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/01/featured-chinese-road_7100-150x150.jpg "When the Chinese build the roads")
![The inhabitants of Junkville didn’t spell a cast on us, and I didn’t hear a single story about “taper le diable”. The devil may be invisible, but the chief Daniel […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/02/featured-lope-NP_6651-150x150.jpg "Cycling through the Lope National Park")
![“Watch out for the logging trucks!“. Logging trucks seem to be the only danger in Gabon, and we were warned against them several times. The “grumiers” carry the timber (les […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/01/featured_grumiers_IMG_1322-150x150.jpg "The logging trucks")
![Gabon uses the CFA Franc, a currency to which I am well accustomed after visiting all the West African countries on the Atlantic coast. It is very useful to compare […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/01/featured-woleu-ntem-DSC_6096-150x150.jpg "Into Gabon, the Woleu-Ntem")
![Yaoundé makes a refreshing stop in Cameroon. Named after its German founder (Jaunde), the capital city spreads along the highway, from the north (presidential palace, embassy district), through the middle […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/01/featured-yaounde-DSC_5652-150x150.jpg "Yaoundé and the South")
![How is ICT taught at school in a village with no electricity? All the villages of the Bamoun region are Muslim. The dirt road starting from Foumbot and heading […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/01/featured-forgotten-land-IMG_0734-150x150.jpg "The forgotten land")
![Sunday is church day, but this Sunday in Bamenda is super church day. The attendants of the cathedral walk in procession and sing cheerfully behind the priest on the main […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/01/featured-into-bamoun-country-DSC_5211-150x150.jpg "Into Bamoun country")
![The northern part of the ring road is the toughest but is worth it for featuring the deadly Lake Nyos. After leaving Ndi Roland and Irene in Binka, I quickly […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/01/featured-ring-road-2on2-DSC_4993-150x150.jpg "The Ring Road (2/2)")
![After so much rain and bad roads since Limbe on the coast, I am finally getting closer to this ring road. I am on the way to Bamenda, the capital […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/01/featured-ring-road-1-DSC_4844-150x150.jpg "The Ring Road (1/2)")
![19000 KM completed in my 20th country, Congo, in the massif du Mayombe, just before reaching Pointe-Noire. We didn’t really stop since Cameroon, and together with the poor connections in […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/01/20140111_002_s_19000km-150x150.jpg "19000 KM !")
![The crater lake of Barombi Mbo was called “Elephant lake” at the time of the German colony, but the elephants were victims of the ivory trade. They are no longer […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/12/featured-to-cameroon-inlands_4623-150x150.jpg "Uphill to Cameroon’s inland mountains")
![Right in the middle of the jungle of Gabon, the counter is now at 18000 kilometers. Where we left this morning, a village of 2 inhabitants, the previous village with […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/12/20131223_002_s_18000km-150x150.jpg "18000 KM !")
![I am now upside down! Gabon is so far intriguing. The country is relatively rich, it exports lots of wood and petrol but produces nothing else. It seems all […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/12/20131219_004_s_equator-150x150.jpg "Equator")
![Limbe speaks English. Some of the northern part of Cameroon is anglophone: similarly to Togo, the colony was divided between the British and the French when the Germans, occupants of […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/12/featured-on-mount-cameroon-131108-4094-150x150.jpg "Around and on Mount Cameroon")
![After the rough roads of the ring road in the North West region, Cyril joined me again and we are heading to Yaoundé via dirt roads only. It takes a […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/12/20131203_004_s_17000km-150x150.jpg "17000 KM !")
![I am now well advanced through Nigeria, I went around the Delta region and I can aim for Calabar. I am no more an Oyihbo but an Oniotsha now, this […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/11/featured-calabar-3890-150x150.jpg "Calabar, the gateway out of Nigeria")
![There is a waterfall and a place where a hot river meets a cold one, some kilometers around Ipetu, but I am sticking to the roads instead of exploring and […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/11/featured-niger-river-3710-150x150.jpg "Around the Niger river from Yoruba land to Igbo land")
![I am an arinaka (or some name like this), a nomad, in Yoruba. That is my answer to people who don’t understand what I am doing on a bicycle in […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/11/featured-nigeria-oshogbo-DSC_3501-150x150.jpg "In the meanders of the Oshogbo sacred forest")
![Sixteen thousand kilometers today, in the hills near Nkongsamba of the South West region of Cameroon. At almost 1000m high, the weather is chill and rainy. I broke a pedal […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/11/20131112_005_s_16000km-150x150.jpg "16000 KM !")
![– “You won’t cycle 20 km in Nigeria before they attack you.” – “You plan to go camping there? Haha, they’ll find your body and sell your organs.” – “Don’t […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/11/featured-nigeria-to-go-or-not_3288-150x150.jpg "Nigeria: to go or not to go")
![For my holidays-from-cycling time, I established a base at Cotonou’s best budget accomodation, discretely located in front of the Cordon Bleu restaurant on the main Haie Vive street. The Gästehaus […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/10/featured-voodoo-tourism-benin-DSC_3019-150x150.jpg "Voodoo and tourism in Benin")
![One year on the road and almost 16’000 kilometers in the wheels. I left Zürich on November 4th, 2012. Everything is going well, especially considering I cycled through Nigeria and […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/11/freewheely-one-year-road-20131029-DSC_3795-150x150.jpg "One year on the road")
![Waking up to a techno remix of Feliz Navidad / Merry Christmas song is not the best way to start a day. But François walks me to the exit of […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/10/featured-benin-entrance-DSC_2799-150x150.jpg "Benin for culture and more bad roads")
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
![The good side of being out of the bush is that it reminds me of all the pleasures of life, especially food. There is a patisserie in Pointe-Noire and the […]](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20115%20115'%3E%3C/svg%3E "Pointe-Noire and the Kouilou, an oil story")
Pointe-Noire and the Kouilou, an oil story
Posted on March 10, 2014 | 2 CommentsThe good side of being out of the bush is that it reminds me of all the pleasures of life, especially food. There is a patisserie in Pointe-Noire and the […]21000 KM !
Posted on February 28, 2014 | 2 CommentsThat is more than half a round the world journey (Earth’s circumference at the Equator: 40075 km) and, still riding the least frequented dirt roads when possible, my equipment is […]Le massif du Mayombe
Posted on February 24, 2014 | 1 CommentThe fiber optic is in Dolisie since 2009, but it is connected to nothing. The internet cafés are slower than a 2G network. Since the youth can access Facebook on […]Across columns of driver ants
Posted on February 20, 2014 | 1 CommentThe driver ants (also known as siafu ants, army ants) have been crossing crossing my dirt roads quite often, since West Africa. I am not sure exactly which species I have encountered, […]First steps in Congo
Posted on February 16, 2014 | No CommentsWe leave Gabon without having seen any elephant, and with the hope of finding more food in Congo. The Gabonese immigration post is in Boumango, 17 kilometers before the real […]20000 KM !
Posted on February 13, 2014 | 2 CommentsTwenty thousand kilometers and still on the road. Angola is a cycling paradise, with stunning landscapes and many brand new (Chinese) roads. Yet, avoiding the traffic and the very expensive […]Franceville, following in the footsteps of Brazza
Posted on February 12, 2014 | 1 CommentThe French consul takes us to the consulate of Congo in Franceville, and applying for a visa when he sits next to us becomes much easier: the usual requirements and […]When the Chinese build the roads
Posted on February 8, 2014 | 3 CommentsThe bees are absolutely everywhere. It is with good reason that the rainforest is called until Lastoursville “la forêt des abeilles”, the forest of the bees. They stick to my […]Cycling through the Lope National Park
Posted on February 5, 2014 | 1 CommentThe inhabitants of Junkville didn’t spell a cast on us, and I didn’t hear a single story about “taper le diable”. The devil may be invisible, but the chief Daniel […]The logging trucks
Posted on February 2, 2014 | No Comments“Watch out for the logging trucks!“. Logging trucks seem to be the only danger in Gabon, and we were warned against them several times. The “grumiers” carry the timber (les […]Into Gabon, the Woleu-Ntem
Posted on January 29, 2014 | 2 CommentsGabon uses the CFA Franc, a currency to which I am well accustomed after visiting all the West African countries on the Atlantic coast. It is very useful to compare […]Yaoundé and the South
Posted on January 26, 2014 | 3 CommentsYaoundé makes a refreshing stop in Cameroon. Named after its German founder (Jaunde), the capital city spreads along the highway, from the north (presidential palace, embassy district), through the middle […]The forgotten land
Posted on January 23, 2014 | 3 CommentsHow is ICT taught at school in a village with no electricity? All the villages of the Bamoun region are Muslim. The dirt road starting from Foumbot and heading […]Into Bamoun country
Posted on January 20, 2014 | 6 CommentsSunday is church day, but this Sunday in Bamenda is super church day. The attendants of the cathedral walk in procession and sing cheerfully behind the priest on the main […]The Ring Road (2/2)
Posted on January 17, 2014 | 3 CommentsThe northern part of the ring road is the toughest but is worth it for featuring the deadly Lake Nyos. After leaving Ndi Roland and Irene in Binka, I quickly […]The Ring Road (1/2)
Posted on January 14, 2014 | 5 CommentsAfter so much rain and bad roads since Limbe on the coast, I am finally getting closer to this ring road. I am on the way to Bamenda, the capital […]19000 KM !
Posted on January 11, 2014 | 3 Comments19000 KM completed in my 20th country, Congo, in the massif du Mayombe, just before reaching Pointe-Noire. We didn’t really stop since Cameroon, and together with the poor connections in […]Uphill to Cameroon’s inland mountains
Posted on December 28, 2013 | 7 CommentsThe crater lake of Barombi Mbo was called “Elephant lake” at the time of the German colony, but the elephants were victims of the ivory trade. They are no longer […]18000 KM !
Posted on December 23, 2013 | 4 CommentsRight in the middle of the jungle of Gabon, the counter is now at 18000 kilometers. Where we left this morning, a village of 2 inhabitants, the previous village with […]Equator
Posted on December 19, 2013 | 4 CommentsI am now upside down! Gabon is so far intriguing. The country is relatively rich, it exports lots of wood and petrol but produces nothing else. It seems all […]Around and on Mount Cameroon
Posted on December 10, 2013 | 2 CommentsLimbe speaks English. Some of the northern part of Cameroon is anglophone: similarly to Togo, the colony was divided between the British and the French when the Germans, occupants of […]17000 KM !
Posted on December 3, 2013 | 4 CommentsAfter the rough roads of the ring road in the North West region, Cyril joined me again and we are heading to Yaoundé via dirt roads only. It takes a […]Calabar, the gateway out of Nigeria
Posted on November 28, 2013 | 11 CommentsI am now well advanced through Nigeria, I went around the Delta region and I can aim for Calabar. I am no more an Oyihbo but an Oniotsha now, this […]Around the Niger river from Yoruba land to Igbo land
Posted on November 24, 2013 | 6 CommentsThere is a waterfall and a place where a hot river meets a cold one, some kilometers around Ipetu, but I am sticking to the roads instead of exploring and […]In the meanders of the Oshogbo sacred forest
Posted on November 13, 2013 | 6 CommentsI am an arinaka (or some name like this), a nomad, in Yoruba. That is my answer to people who don’t understand what I am doing on a bicycle in […]16000 KM !
Posted on November 13, 2013 | 1 CommentSixteen thousand kilometers today, in the hills near Nkongsamba of the South West region of Cameroon. At almost 1000m high, the weather is chill and rainy. I broke a pedal […]Nigeria: to go or not to go
Posted on November 8, 2013 | 11 Comments– “You won’t cycle 20 km in Nigeria before they attack you.” – “You plan to go camping there? Haha, they’ll find your body and sell your organs.” – “Don’t […]Voodoo and tourism in Benin
Posted on November 5, 2013 | 1 CommentFor my holidays-from-cycling time, I established a base at Cotonou’s best budget accomodation, discretely located in front of the Cordon Bleu restaurant on the main Haie Vive street. The Gästehaus […]One year on the road
Posted on November 2, 2013 | 14 CommentsOne year on the road and almost 16’000 kilometers in the wheels. I left Zürich on November 4th, 2012. Everything is going well, especially considering I cycled through Nigeria and […]Benin for culture and more bad roads
Posted on October 27, 2013 | 2 CommentsWaking up to a techno remix of Feliz Navidad / Merry Christmas song is not the best way to start a day. But François walks me to the exit of […]
