Gravelpacking Namibia – diamonds and washboard
After ten days in Swakopmund with delicious food, good coffee, reunions with travel buddies and meeting new friends, we are ready to cycle south in Namibia again. This time we have approx. 1200km of gravel road ahead of us. Technically the route is easier, but there is still a long way between water and supplies. Of course, that is also […]
Bikepacking Cameroon – meeting one of the world's last indigenous peoples
In Cameroon we leave West Africa and cycle into a new region, Central Africa. Here we cycle far east, into the jungle, to meet the Baka, one of the world’s last indigenous hunter-gatherer peoples. Deep in the world’s second largest rainforest, we meet a people who live in, by and with nature, but whose living conditions […]
Reunification in Cameroon
Deafeningly loud African music blasts out into the small restaurant, where there is only room for 4-5 people around the table. Restaurant is perhaps too much to say. Kiosk with the option to buy a meal is perhaps more apt. I try for the third time to shout over the music, but have to give up trying to get through […]
Sierra Leone – Noooooo way!
Sierra Leone is living proof that the people of West Africa are resilient. We find it hard to understand how the people of a country that has been through so much and is so challenged can be so welcoming and curious about who the two crazy people on bicycles are. Inflation is high, and life is […]
Guinea – From straw huts to skyscrapers
In Guinea we found again what we love most about bikepacking. Rough dirt roads through mountain landscapes, with small villages filled with welcoming people who live life in a completely different way than in Denmark. But we also found new friends and much-needed luxury in Conakry's expat environment, as well as a few experiences we will never forget. Already […]
Gambia. Small country – big challenges.
In the small medical clinic in Janjanbureh, Kenneth sits with his foot up on an old, broken desk. The nurse has her infant in a sling on her back while she cleans the wound on Kenneth's leg with hand sanitizer. It's not exactly clean here. Nor are the remedies for even a simple wound cleaning the most optimal. You have to make do with […]
Through the desert sands of Mauritania
Mauritania. A country we hadn't even heard of just a year ago. But after a month of warm smiles, men in blue suits, women on the backs of donkey carts, iPhones in hand, traditional music, windswept desert landscapes, golden sunsets, raw and authentic living conditions, we have fallen completely in love with this desert country on the edge of […]
In the footsteps of the caravans – Bikepacking 'Route of Caravans'
We love to experience the world, and we love to cycle. Especially when the terrain gets rough and challenging, and we get full value for our bikepacking set-up. We are looking forward to setting out on the bikepacking route 'Route of Caravans', which is a 1200km route with 12,500 vertical meters, which partly follows a historic caravan route. It will […]
On the edge of the continent
Huge hugs and kisses. This is how the reunion took place, of course, at Valencia airport. Marie flew here so that we could reunite in our adventure towards South Africa. Kenneth had taken the trouble to book a hotel that would suit Marie’s romantic taste. The choice was exquisite – a hotel with a bicycle repair shop in the basement, so we had good […]
Milky Way bikepacking route
The title of this story should probably be: “Much more than the Milky Way”, because the trip to Norway ended up being so much more than just bikepacking. After spending a long time trying to rent a van long-term, we had to admit that it was both easier and cheaper to buy a car, and sell […]