Rwanda – the home of the mountain gorillas
by Our journey on two 200cc Motomias on ‘Crossing Africa’ from Cape to Cairo took a turn westwards through to Rwanda so that we could go …
Author: Francois Steyn
The boys are back in town
The container ship carrying our battered MotoMias arrived Sunday a week ago and we had an appointment with the customs clearing agent for Wednesday. Johan …
Highlights from Namibia 7 – 14 September 2011
Namibia is one of the most exciting and beautiful countries to travel through by motorcycle. The roads are good, the scenery stunning and with the …
Some stats on the route
Since we bought the GPS just before the trip and was still figuring out how it operates as we rode out of the yard, it …
The long way down, but first +2 East
We were biting nails yesterday as we had our flight tickets booked for today at 13h45 and thus had to leave Alexandria by at least …
Good news! Shipping sorted
Phew! What a day! But we have good news – the Motomias are safely in their container with the Voetspore team’s Amaroks at the port …
Alexandria at last, but what a day!
We got up before sunrise as we still had 520 km to go. The plan was to ride hard to reach the pyramids at Giza …
Staying with an Egyptian family in the Western desert
We struggled to get up early as it was very cold outside. The setting was beautiful in the morning light… Dressing up warmly we set …
Longest border crossing: Into Egypt at last
This morning, while having breakfast, Kamal arrived at the hotel. Last night we contacted a new broker (or fixer) since Kamal didn’t sound too interested …
Abu Simbel and still no escaping Aswan
Last night we witnessed two more weddings from our room. It looks like you go to the Isis Hotel and order a ‘standard wedding’, since …
