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river Archive
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 | 2 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 […]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 […]