Sahara cycling
 

Hi all,

Making research for a chapter on Northern Africa in a new cycling guidebook, I would welcome any information on cycling in the Sahara. Where have you cyclists been, where have you motorised travellers seen any cyclists etc. etc. I'm looking above all for the eventually possible routes. Thanks a lot!

Rafke

http://users.telenet.be/django

Ive done quite a bit of offroad in Egypt and know a little about long-distance onroad there..... any use? What would you like to know?

Hello Runner, just been to egypt myself, done the western desert oasis circuit. So that's known. Could you tell me where you did the offroad stuff and how things are along the Nile Valley (convois)? You'll find my email address in my profile

cheers

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Try this site:
http://www.tilmann.com/

Tilman has been all around every corner of this globe by bicycle :-)

Hans

Hello,

We ran into a couple on bikes just outside Diffa Niger. They had started in Spain and been through Morocco, Mauritania, Mali etc. They were planning on crossing Nigeria to Cameroon to avoid Chad. We ran into them later in N'djamena. They crossed Nigeria, briefly looked at crossing the lake by canoe to Bol but decided better of it. Cameroon visa was not avaliable in Nigeria, but they did get a 2 day transit visa to Chad and then got a Cameroon visa there.

They had been doing about 100k per day!

If I find their names and/or web site I'll let you know.

Cheers

Graham
www.africaoverland.org