I knew it would be a 12 hour bus ride back to Addis Ababa, so I was at the bus station early. To my surprise it wasn’t possible to buy the tickets for the long distance buses directly from the driver. I was walking around the central square, considering my next move, as a mini [ Read More ]
Distance: 91.7 km Ride time: 5:25:12 Average: 16.9 km/h Max speed: 48.2 km/h Total: 52884 km The day started with a climb straight up to 2300 meters, completely with hair pins and everything. I tried to enjoy the climb as this is really my last days in the mountains before reaching the Sahara desert! I [ Read More ]
Distance: 82.6 km Ride time: 4:04:19 Average: 20.3 km/h Max speed: 49.3 km/h Total: 52792 km Compared to the central part of the country, life is getting tougher up here in the northern part of Ethiopia. It seems to me that a fair amount of the land I passed today had been flooded in the [ Read More ]
Distance: 76.6 km Ride time: 3:37:05 Average: 21.2 km/h Max speed: 44.3 km/h Total: 52709 km What an enjoyable day on the bike! The distance to Bahrir Dar was only 75 kilometers – most of them downhill as the city is located at the shore of Lake Tana. Furthermore, there was no rain, and even [ Read More ]
Distance: 70.8 km Ride time: 3:57:53 Average: 17.9 km/h Max speed: 53.6 km/h Total: 52632 km Another day in the mountains of Ethiopia, hanging out between 2100 and 2600 meters above sea level. Putting in distances above 70 km per day seems difficult – not so much because of the climbing but because you are [ Read More ]
Distance: 105.2 km Ride time: 5:42:27 Average: 18.4 km/h Max speed: 56.2 km/h Total: 52561 km Cycling through this part of Ethiopia involves at least two things; hills and rain. Today my altitude went up and down between 1700 and 2400 meters while the weather was nice and dry in the morning until the rain [ Read More ]
Distance: 70.2 km Ride time: 4:31:22 Average: 15.5 km/h Max speed: 48.2 km/h Total: 52456 km After yesterday’s marathon climb, today’s ride was more of a manageable kind; 70 km along the rolling hills of central Ethiopia. I had loaded another 5 hours of podcasts onto my phone, and with those playing in my ears [ Read More ]
Distance: 71.7 km Ride time: 5:31:51 Average: 13.0 km/h Max speed: 43.6 km/h Total: 52386 km Today I would be crossing the Blue Nile which originates at Lake Tana further up north in Ethiopia. The Nile runs through a spectacular 1500 meter deep valley – which I would have to descend on one side and [ Read More ]
Distance: 78.2 km Ride time: 5:07:37 Average: 15.3 km/h Max speed: 47.5 km/h Total: 52314 km Another climbing day in the mountainous landscape of northern Ethiopia. The roads around here are not super steep, but the climbs long and steady. It all climaxed at 3100 metres of altitude which is the highest I have been [ Read More ]
Distance: 82.3 km Ride time: 5:35:12 Average: 14.7 km/h Max speed: 48.2 km/h Total: 52236 km Thanks to the hospitality shown by Sakti and his wife, I had enjoyed my stay in Addis Ababa tremendously – even though the outcome of my visa applications had not been in my favour. After the challenging cycling in [ Read More ]
