Uganda is an amazing place. It is of the most densely populated countries in Africa with a population of 50 million. It is also one of the fastest growing countries in Africa with the world’s youngest population. The average age in Uganda is 16.2 years. It is a...
We spent a few of our last days in Kenya staying at Rongai Athletics team camp. There are 11 athletes staying there at the moment. They train together each day with Sunday being a rest day. They are a mixture of junior and senior...
Our adventure seemed to crescendo as we started to approach our final days away. We parted from our bikes for the first time for months and headed off to the coast. A week staying in a basic chalet on the incredible Diani beach...
We met Petra at Sandai farm. She is one of these people who has a unique ability to make you feel at home super quickly. Steve at Laikipia Wilderness Centre also runs the place in a way that creates that same kind of belonging feeling quite quickly. In leaving both...
We were delighted to have managed to complete the Trans Kenya trail! Big effort, big doses of stepping outside comfort zone and the most fantastic experience resultingly! After Tumerin safari camp we had a fantastic day's cycle to Wakumbe rangers Station in Upper...
Staying at Laikipia Wilderness Centre was a remarkable experience. The centre is situated in a vast expanse of dry land: valleys and escarpments abounding. It is home to the widest diversity of mammals in Africa. We stayed in a huge luxuriously furnished tent with an...
We are learning many beautiful lessons here on our Trans Kenya Bikepacking adventure. In letting go of our need to control and our need for feeling comfortable (internally & externally) we have received so so much more than we could have 'made happen ourselves'....
Encounters of many different forms have happened these last few days on our Trans Kenya Bikepacking Adventure. Encounters with incredibly beautiful parts of this Kenya adventure have been just fabulous. We feel so privileged to see so much of ths incredibly diverse...
It's hard to know where to begin to record about the next leg of our Trans Kenya bikepacking journey. Immersive, exciting, extremely diverse, uncertain, exhausting and beyond all expectations would be a few words and phrases that come to mind! We journeyed up to Mount...
We set off on the Trans Kenya bikepacking trail joined by Eric for day 1. It was great to allay any trepidation that had been building and just get going. A fantastic flowy tarmac day was had taking us out of Nairibi through acres and acres of tea plantations. We...
Sinking into and enjoying this new part of our Kenya bikepacking adventure was instant. "Hello, how are you?", "hi, hi" , "Muzungu!" (white person), Karibu (welcome). We hear these words constantly now we are immersing ourselves in Kenya trail life! We spent our first...
There were some incredibly long and fun downhills cycling out of the Sierra Nevada parc. The only dilemma being whether to zoom down as fast as possible or take it slower to take in all the incredible views. We were next headed for the city of Almeria. We thought we...