Today is the first day of the three day break in Arusha. Many riders have now spent their first day seeing the amazing wildlife inside the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater. Hopefully having taken better photos than the one above.



This halfway stop on the tour is a chance for staff and riders to take ... Continue Reading

Less than a year ago the Amber Route Tour, a bicycle expedition from St. Petersburg, the Venice of the North, to Venice of the South in Italy, was a concept in Henry Gold's brain. At the same time, Rob, our web designer was hard at work building our new DreamTour approach for creating adventurou... Continue Reading

The riders said a fond farewell to Kenya this morning and crossed the border into Tanzania, where they will enjoy three very well deserved rest days in Arusha.  While they change gears and wind down for a while, we've posted a few recent excerpts from some of the riders' blogs.



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The rider are safe and sound and enjoying a rest day in Nairobi today.  Tour Director, Paul McManus, share his thoughts just prior to arrival in Nairobi.



I pulled into the parking lot, just south of Nanyuki, where all the riders had gathered.  The morning was crisp and cool but the sky was ... Continue Reading

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Kenyan food is basic, no frills cuisine designed to fill you up using inexpensive (but often fresh) ingredients. Think of Kenyan food like racing on a single speed bicycle; it gets the job done, butit won’t win many stage plate... Continue Reading

You hear about it.  It’s all that any one can talk about.  You read the blogs in advance.  The pain and suffering.  The saddle sores, the bent rims and broken spirits.  It’s Northern Kenya and it’s designed to break you. 



When we arrived at the border ... Continue Reading

Greetings from your African dirt correspondent, exactly a month on from our first taste of dirt in Sudan. I'm writing from a small settlement called Laisamis, 95 kilometres from a dusty town called Marsabit, en route to Nairobi.



As we left Ethiopia, the heavy rain that had plagued the tour eased ... Continue Reading

Through 40 Stages covering Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and Northern Kenya, the racing has been fast furious and fraught with a few unfortunate falls. Section 1 winner, Australian Adrian Lutey, sadly broke his clavicle in a high speed collision with an Ethiopian pedestrian and has been forced to retur... Continue Reading

The last few days in Ethiopia felt different somehow.  The children seemed to be less aggressive and the stone throwing seemed to be isolated incidents instead of the norm. The vocabulary of the children also started improving.  From ‘you, you, you’ to the odd ‘Welcome&rs... Continue Reading

We have just received the latest 2010 Tour d'Afrique financial report from our field staff enroute in Ethiopia. Here are a few of the entries we have just reviewed...



Feb 2       Sudanese Pounds 30            fine for having bike on... Continue Reading