About AFRICA
We have been planning this trip for over 2 years. But very few things ended as we thought.
If there's one thing to know about a motorcycle trip through Africa, it's that everything changes all the time. Every day we had to deal with a different “problem” or unexpected situation. If it wasn't a visa or bureaucracy to enter or leave a country, it was a motorcycle breakdown or a pilot's illness.
We both contracted malaria, we both burned our clutches, and one of the two bikes had to be replaced by a local 125 after a tight engine.
But there are so many stories to tell about this magnificent 6-month adventure, that a more detailed blog is necessary and will soon be available here.
The best of this ADVENTURE
People! It is the people, their personality and their hospitality that made us fall more and more in love with this continent.
Some still live in the Stone Age, like their ancestors more than 2000 years ago, and without hesitation they invite you to sleep with them and eat their food without even knowing you.
Despite everything we can read in the newspapers, we have only had good experiences with the inhabitants of Africa, amazed with our biker astronaut outfits, we have always been received like kings at their home.
They are a wonderful people from whom we have a lot to learn.
The worst of this adventure
We had several difficult situations without any being truly catastrophic.
In Nigeria one of the two motorcycles stopped the engine, and we had to invest a month of traveling to find a solution. In addition, the current economic crisis prevented us from withdrawing enough cash from ATMs, which only returned €5 to €10 per withdrawal, after 1 to 2 hours in line.
We had no money to pay for the crane and no time to find other solutions because our visa was coming to an end 2 days after the engine broke.
We had to leave the country like thieves , with the motorbike in a farmer's 4x4 and go to Cameroon to pay him in local currency.
THE ROAD
We traveled across Africa along the west coast, along the Atlantic Ocean, passing through Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameo, the Republic of Congo, Angola, Namibia and South Africa.
And in South Africa I put my motorbike in a boat for South America, which I I also browsed, and which I will also tell you about.
