![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-115x115.jpg?x73263 "The West Coast road")
![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_6412-115x115.jpg?x73263 "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_6166-115x115.jpg?x73263 "Namibia’s best: cycling along the Orange river")
![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-115x115.jpg?x73263 "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-115x115.jpg?x73263 "Looking for Sperrgebiet diamonds in the Lüderitz peninsula")
![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_4043-115x115.jpg?x73263 "Uranium in the Namib-Naukluft desert")
![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_3251-115x115.jpg?x73263 "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_2856-115x115.jpg?x73263 "The desert elephants of the Brandberg")
![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_IMG0425-115x115.jpg?x73263 "Tsumeb")
![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_7518-115x115.jpg?x73263 "First steps in Congo")
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mining Archive
![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 […]](//freewheely.com/wp-content/plugins/a3-lazy-load/assets/images/lazy_placeholder.gif?x73263 "The West Coast road")
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 […]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 […]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. […]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 […]Mining expedition in the desert of Brandberg West
Posted on July 5, 2014 | 6 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 […]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 […]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 […]
