![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")
![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")
![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")
![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")
![“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)")
![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")
![How does a plate of beans with flour on top sound for breakfast? It is strange but good for a change. The morning is rainy again. I head north so […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/10/featured-togo-DSC_2714-150x150.jpg "Togo")
![The morning we wake up in N’gorankro, it seems the kids are waiting for us. The same crowd as yesterday evening is here, under the porch of the house of […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/10/featured-ivorycoast2-DSC_1309-150x150.jpg "In Baoulé country")
![Roy sends us off with a big bag of UN food from the neighbors, that looks very useful, with many goodies independently packaged. We can pursue our road up to […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/08/featured-north-liberia-DSC_0916-150x150.jpg "Northern Liberia")
![Monrovia, and Liberia in general, is not an obvious choice when it comes to tourist destinations. But it doesn’t matter, since one of the things I like to do is […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/08/featured-ducor-hotels-monrovia-DSC_0501-150x150.jpg "Ducor and Africa, the hotels of Monrovia")
![We stayed for the weekend at the convent in Monrovia, to rest after our adventures in the bush between Freetown and the Liberian capital. Katie and Guillaume took me to […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/07/featured-liberia-monrovia-DSC_0473-150x150.jpg "Monrovia")
![Once in Liberia, we quickly forget about the troubles we had exiting Sierra Leone: the first immigration post, just after the bridge over the Mano river, is quite cool. “Welcome […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/07/featured-liberia-robertsport-DSC_0120-150x150.jpg "Robertsport, navigating through Liberia")
![After having been blessed with well-behaved clouds for the three days that followed our departure from Freetown, the rain finally seems to catch up. We had a bit of it […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/07/featured-sierraleone-6-roadtoborder-DSC_0037-150x150.jpg "The rainy season in Sierra Leone")
![Today is the day we start on the supposedly bad roads. There is no more tar from Bandajuma until the Liberian border and I hope the rain didn’t ruin the […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/07/featured-sierraleone-5-tiwai-IMG_0804-150x150.jpg "The waterlogged roads to Tiwai Island")
![It is almost 8 am and we made sure to be ready with the desks and benches back in position. Unlike in Guinea, where they last four months, the school […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/07/featured-sierraleone-4-DSC_9713-150x150.jpg "Days rich in encounters")
![The reasons I chose to reach Mamou and sleep in a hostel were not met. I wanted to sleep dry and have electricity for my laptop. I only managed to […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/07/featured-guinea-4-DSC_9455-150x150.jpg "Road checkpoints")
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![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 […]](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20115%20115'%3E%3C/svg%3E "The Himba of Namibia")
The Himba of Namibia
Posted on May 23, 2014 | 3 Comments 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 […] Angola, where I am called Chinese all the time
Posted on May 2, 2014 | 2 Comments 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 […] Along the coast of the Zaire province
Posted on March 30, 2014 | No Comments 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 […] Congo – Cabinda – DRC – Angola, quite an adventure
Posted on March 26, 2014 | 20 Comments 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 […] Across columns of driver ants
Posted on February 20, 2014 | 1 Comment 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, […] First steps in Congo
Posted on February 16, 2014 | No Comments 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 […] 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 Comments 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 […] Yaoundé and the South
Posted on January 26, 2014 | 3 Comments 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 […] The forgotten land
Posted on January 23, 2014 | 3 Comments 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 […] Into Bamoun country
Posted on January 20, 2014 | 6 Comments 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 […] The Ring Road (2/2)
Posted on January 17, 2014 | 3 Comments 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 […] Uphill to Cameroon’s inland mountains
Posted on December 28, 2013 | 7 Comments 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 […] Togo
Posted on October 24, 2013 | 3 Comments How does a plate of beans with flour on top sound for breakfast? It is strange but good for a change. The morning is rainy again. I head north so […] In Baoulé country
Posted on October 2, 2013 | 2 Comments The morning we wake up in N’gorankro, it seems the kids are waiting for us. The same crowd as yesterday evening is here, under the porch of the house of […] Northern Liberia
Posted on September 26, 2013 | 3 Comments Roy sends us off with a big bag of UN food from the neighbors, that looks very useful, with many goodies independently packaged. We can pursue our road up to […] Ducor and Africa, the hotels of Monrovia
Posted on September 16, 2013 | 16 Comments Monrovia, and Liberia in general, is not an obvious choice when it comes to tourist destinations. But it doesn’t matter, since one of the things I like to do is […] Monrovia
Posted on September 14, 2013 | No Comments We stayed for the weekend at the convent in Monrovia, to rest after our adventures in the bush between Freetown and the Liberian capital. Katie and Guillaume took me to […] Robertsport, navigating through Liberia
Posted on September 6, 2013 | No Comments Once in Liberia, we quickly forget about the troubles we had exiting Sierra Leone: the first immigration post, just after the bridge over the Mano river, is quite cool. “Welcome […] The rainy season in Sierra Leone
Posted on September 2, 2013 | 4 Comments After having been blessed with well-behaved clouds for the three days that followed our departure from Freetown, the rain finally seems to catch up. We had a bit of it […] The waterlogged roads to Tiwai Island
Posted on August 28, 2013 | 3 Comments Today is the day we start on the supposedly bad roads. There is no more tar from Bandajuma until the Liberian border and I hope the rain didn’t ruin the […] Days rich in encounters
Posted on August 24, 2013 | No Comments It is almost 8 am and we made sure to be ready with the desks and benches back in position. Unlike in Guinea, where they last four months, the school […] Road checkpoints
Posted on August 7, 2013 | 3 Comments The reasons I chose to reach Mamou and sleep in a hostel were not met. I wanted to sleep dry and have electricity for my laptop. I only managed to […]
List of posts
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 […]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 […]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 […]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 […]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 […]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 […]Togo
Posted on October 24, 2013 | 3 CommentsHow does a plate of beans with flour on top sound for breakfast? It is strange but good for a change. The morning is rainy again. I head north so […]In Baoulé country
Posted on October 2, 2013 | 2 CommentsThe morning we wake up in N’gorankro, it seems the kids are waiting for us. The same crowd as yesterday evening is here, under the porch of the house of […]Northern Liberia
Posted on September 26, 2013 | 3 CommentsRoy sends us off with a big bag of UN food from the neighbors, that looks very useful, with many goodies independently packaged. We can pursue our road up to […]Ducor and Africa, the hotels of Monrovia
Posted on September 16, 2013 | 16 CommentsMonrovia, and Liberia in general, is not an obvious choice when it comes to tourist destinations. But it doesn’t matter, since one of the things I like to do is […]Monrovia
Posted on September 14, 2013 | No CommentsWe stayed for the weekend at the convent in Monrovia, to rest after our adventures in the bush between Freetown and the Liberian capital. Katie and Guillaume took me to […]Robertsport, navigating through Liberia
Posted on September 6, 2013 | No CommentsOnce in Liberia, we quickly forget about the troubles we had exiting Sierra Leone: the first immigration post, just after the bridge over the Mano river, is quite cool. “Welcome […]The rainy season in Sierra Leone
Posted on September 2, 2013 | 4 CommentsAfter having been blessed with well-behaved clouds for the three days that followed our departure from Freetown, the rain finally seems to catch up. We had a bit of it […]The waterlogged roads to Tiwai Island
Posted on August 28, 2013 | 3 CommentsToday is the day we start on the supposedly bad roads. There is no more tar from Bandajuma until the Liberian border and I hope the rain didn’t ruin the […]Days rich in encounters
Posted on August 24, 2013 | No CommentsIt is almost 8 am and we made sure to be ready with the desks and benches back in position. Unlike in Guinea, where they last four months, the school […]Road checkpoints
Posted on August 7, 2013 | 3 CommentsThe reasons I chose to reach Mamou and sleep in a hostel were not met. I wanted to sleep dry and have electricity for my laptop. I only managed to […]
