Distance: 118.0 km Ride time: 6:26:04 Average: 18.4 km/h Max speed: 29.2 km/h Total: 45689 km Yesterday I had done a 10 minute ride around Otjiwarongo to check if the back pain would allow me to continue cycling. My theory was that cycling was perhaps even a good thing to loosen everything up a bit. [ Read More ]
After spending two days driving around my rental car in Etosha National Park, a problem had occurred: Back pain. I don’t remember having this problem before on the trip. One thing was clear, I was not going to cycle anywhere for a couple of days… I was looking for a cheap place to stay in [ Read More ]
I though it would cost hundreds if not thousand of dollars to go on a safari. Then I realized that the entrance fee for Etosha National Park (one of the most famous) is 5$ a day! Too good to pass, even though I had to rent a car with a couple of other guys from [ Read More ]
Distance: 131.3 km Ride time: 6:57:16 Average: 18.9 km/h Max speed: 35.3 km/h Total: 45571 km I was spending the first 30 minutes of the day riding next to a local cyclist who turned out to be a serious competitor at national levels. In fact my new friend was about to leave for a year [ Read More ]
Distance: 115.2 km Ride time: 5:38:50 Average: 20.4 km/h Max speed: 38.2 km/h Total: 45440 km I had been spending 10 days in Windhoek trying to figure out the next part of the trip. Since I wasn’t able to make further progress with my visa for Angola, I had been considering my options but without [ Read More ]
When I arrived at my Windoek hostel I had met fellow Africa cyclist Oliver from Switzerland. Soon thereafter Javier from Spain (www.coloradoontheroad.com) also rolled into the campsite. Javi is cycling around the world, and since he had done the Americas north to south I figured we would have been close to each other at some [ Read More ]
Distance: 91.2 km Ride time: 5:46:11 Average: 15.8 km/h Max speed: 51.5 km/h Total: 45325 km I had been looking forward to reach Windhoek. The Namibian country side has been an amazing experience, but it’s also very remote out there. A bit of civilization is nice once in a while. The landscape continued to turn [ Read More ]
Distance: 100.3 km Ride time: 5:41:39 Average: 17.6 km/h Max speed: 30.2 km/h Total: 45234 km I’m back on tarmac after what feels like a long time on dirt. Wow, much easier to ride 100 km on this kind of road! On the other hand, road safety is not the best since there really isn’t [ Read More ]
Distance: 118.2 km Ride time: 8:39:21 Average: 13.7 km/h Max speed: 36.0 km/h Total: 45134 km From Maltahöhe I decided to take a more direct route towards the capital Windhoek instead of continuing on the remote dirt roads. Somebody would say “Oh, but you will miss Sossusvlei then!” – to which I will respond; Yes, [ Read More ]
Distance: 139.0 km Ride time: 8:30:18 Average: 16.3 km/h Max speed: 33.8 km/h Total: 45016 km Even though touring cyclists are obviously in good physical shape, most of the time we will be out there on our heavy bikes, riding into a head wind or climbing a mountain, feeling that riding is pretty slow and [ Read More ]
