Benin has been a pretty cool country. We crossed the border from Burkina and camped just the other side of the border about a km from some petrol station who assured us we could come back and watch the football that night. So after showers and supper, we headed up but after searching through african, arabic and any [...]

We crossed the border and camped just inside Benin and then ended up the next day going off schedule a bit to have a rest day at a waterfall….was class and plenty of photos to follow. We also saw elephants at the side of the road as we cycled which was cool! Literally about 15 [...]

Great night around the fire last night. All had a taste of the snake we found at the camp! Made it to Koubela and good wee campsite…95km’s done. Baxter and Stu managed to fell a tree and went down with it so Bax hobbling around and Stu has hurt his hands. Stu also went over [...]

Report from Stewart - Arrived into Ouagadougou, got slightly lost due to diversions and road works, waited for Dangerous Steve to come find us and lead us to the campsite - which was through the hectic streets and on the other side of
a truck park. We stayed at the Ok Inn which lived up to it’s [...]

After some stressful traveling and transferred and delayed flights, we finally got to our destination a day late.  My first smell of Africa was amazing.  A new world. My plan was to serve God and cycle, cycle, cycle. 
 
Day 2 we got to Iain and Linda Williamsons - two truly Godly and fantastic people.  They were mum [...]

We arrived into Bobo Dioulasso this morning. It was only a 75km ride from our campsite near Oradara but there were a few hills which weren’t great craic! Lonely Planet says Burkina Faso is a flat country but they clearly didn’t cycle though it.
 
Our last campsite in Mali was class though….right beside a wee river [...]

So we’re past Bamako. Cycling has been tough the past few days. We left Bamako bright and early on Monday morning, hit some traffic in the city and then Stu got a flat tyre which held us up a bit as it blew out his inner and also his tyre so we had to wait [...]

So we have managed to meet up with some more missionaries here in Mali and just finished an english church service so making use of their wifi! House group had made supper for all even though we will have more when we go home! But home cooking is so good! Chocolate cookies, salad, cold drinks [...]

So we’re in Bamako, Mali. A small campsite which seems to be the only one around and doubles up as an ideal location to pick up girls, buy and sell drugs and I’m sure if you asked nicely, Mohammed would be able to sort you out with pretty much anything else you wanted. We have [...]