Cambodia is a great country for cycling. There is of course the world famous Angkor but it’s a cool country to cycle as is. The north west, the roads to Laos, heck even Phnom Penh and the south are fun cycling. Having crisscrossed through Cambodia, I can only say…I want to go Read more >
Located 140 kilometers South of Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi, Amboseli National Park is truly a destination to see! The park, whose ecosystem mostly consists of savannah grasslands, is most famous for being the best place in Africa to closely observe free-ranging elephants. The park is also Read more >
We obviously spent too long on this bridge as there were so many pictures of it, but it was a good place to stop and relax. We wondered what the Free State riding would bring? the next stop would be a place called Luckhoff. This is the daily blog from Africa4Adventure.com. A short series on the Read more >
We continued on for a while and then came upon one of the most secluded holiday cottages we’ve ever seen. Actually there seemed to be a main cottage and then a smaller adjacent cottage a little way away. They were in idylic location for getting away from it all! We had done the best part of Read more >
We never quite did get used to all the recent rain water in the semi-desert and had to keep stopping once we found any! Of course in-between rivers we had a good burn and got some pretty good speeds along the relatively open roads, dust flying up behind us. We were soon to reach the pass up to Read more >
Normally this Karoo is just so dry and dusty, but because of all the rain they had had over the past few months, the place had suddenly flourished. There was also evidence of rivers full of water, which was something one seldom sees in this part of the world. So whenever we got to a rive we Read more >
We happened upon this valley where the number of flowers was simply unbelievable – only the pictures below can explain the colours. You might wonder whats so special? – but what one has to remember is that for most of the year this place is a barren browny, dusty dry semi-arid desert. Read more >
This place starts putting life around you into context. It makes you feel just how small and insignificant we are as humans in the universe. This place shows you just how lonely we could be should we choose to live in wide open places like these. See the house in the middle of no-where. It was Read more >
It is just one of those things, when you see water in the semi-arid desert it is an event. So we stopped and took in the surrounds. Even after all the flowers we had seen till now, which implied the most rain in the previous months for 30 years, it had still not dawned on us just how much water Read more >
Further down the dusty road we stopped to take some pictures and next minute from down some side little track came a little orange coloured van and pulled up next to us. This very friendly farmer came over and we started chatting. We asked him questions about the size of his farm and living life Read more >
