![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")
![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")
![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")
![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")
![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")
![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")
![Some good rest in Yamoussoukro and 10 Chinese spokes for 1 € later, I leave the capital towards Ghana, to the east, without testing the traffic mess in Abidjan. I […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/09/featured-ivory-coast-end-DSC_1583-150x150.jpg "Dirt and asphalt until Ghana")
![In Blizreu, alcohol is part of our breakfast and the kids enjoy it too. After Sy, the school principal, and his family have offered us fufu, the old Samuel takes […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/09/featured-ivorycoast1-DSC_1040-150x150.jpg "Cocoa and koutoukou, the assets of Ivory Coast")
![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")
![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")
![While the temperature is decent outside, I sleep way too hot under the metallic roof. I wake up many times in my own sweat puddle, like if I were an […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/07/featured-guinea-bissau-west-east-DSC_9113-150x150.jpg "Guinea-Bissau from west to east")
![I thought I would reach the Tarn River Gorge just when the slope from the Aubrac ends, in La Canourgue. But it is not immediately here, and it keeps ascending […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2012/12/gorges-tarn-featured-DSC_2089-150x150.jpg "Inside the Tarn River Gorge")
![The heavy rain has passed while at home in Pontarlier and I’ve sorted out what I needed to. I just postponed one activity, the compilation of a video of yoyo-cycling […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2012/11/IMG_0619-150x150.jpg "To Lyon in 3 days")
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![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 […]](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20115%20115'%3E%3C/svg%3E "Into South Africa, the last country")
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 […]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 […]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 […]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 […]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 […]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 […]Dirt and asphalt until Ghana
Posted on October 8, 2013 | 2 CommentsSome good rest in Yamoussoukro and 10 Chinese spokes for 1 € later, I leave the capital towards Ghana, to the east, without testing the traffic mess in Abidjan. I […]Cocoa and koutoukou, the assets of Ivory Coast
Posted on September 29, 2013 | 1 CommentIn Blizreu, alcohol is part of our breakfast and the kids enjoy it too. After Sy, the school principal, and his family have offered us fufu, the old Samuel takes […]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 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 […]Guinea-Bissau from west to east
Posted on July 25, 2013 | 3 CommentsWhile the temperature is decent outside, I sleep way too hot under the metallic roof. I wake up many times in my own sweat puddle, like if I were an […]Inside the Tarn River Gorge
Posted on December 2, 2012 | 3 CommentsI thought I would reach the Tarn River Gorge just when the slope from the Aubrac ends, in La Canourgue. But it is not immediately here, and it keeps ascending […]To Lyon in 3 days
Posted on November 18, 2012 | 2 CommentsThe heavy rain has passed while at home in Pontarlier and I’ve sorted out what I needed to. I just postponed one activity, the compilation of a video of yoyo-cycling […]
