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Photo Story: Congo (DRC)

Posted by Peter Gostelow on Mar 24, 2013 in Photo Stories | 1 comment

You wouldn’t know this picture was taken on a boat unless I told you. I have no idea how many people were on board those two Congo River barges. I don’t think the captain who powered the tug boat...

Photo Story: Central African Republic

Posted by Peter Gostelow on Mar 12, 2013 in Headlines | 2 comments

They emerged from the forest just as I was cycling past. Exactly where and for how long they’d been out hunting I have no idea. Communication, at least in a manner of pointing and miming, centered on the gun and...

Photo Story: Cameroon

Posted by Peter Gostelow on Feb 19, 2013 in Photo Stories | 0 comments

This was a sad sight on the roads of eastern Cameroon. Dozens of logging trucks thundered towards me each day as I headed towards the border with the Central African Republic. Some of those trunks must have been...

Photo Story: Nigeria

Posted by Peter Gostelow on Feb 3, 2013 in Photo Stories | 0 comments

Cycling in Nigeria was always lively. Africa’s most populous country also has some of the cheapest fuel costs. These two things combined means there are a lot of vehicles on the road. And, like most of...

Return to Zanzibar

Posted by Peter Gostelow on Jan 19, 2013 in The Big Africa Cycle | 2 comments

I’m back on Zanzibar and just wrote a blog post over at the The Big Africa Cycle. No bicycle this time, just a backpack....

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7 Feb

End of the road. Arriving in Cape Town (several days before this picture was taken) was a bit of an anticlimax. No fanfare or celebrations - just a stranger in another foreign place, as I had been everywhere else in Africa. That this would be the end of my long journey throu…

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2 Feb

Coasting to the coast. The last time I'd seen the Atlantic Ocean on my journey through Africa was in Cameroon, so it was a welcome sight as I turned off the main highway and descended to the coast. I wasn't far away from Cape Town, which is where this journey would end. Afte…

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27 Jan

Into South Africa. I was more nervous about entering South Africa than I have been about entering most other countries on a bicycle. Most news reports from the country focus on its high crime rates, and many people had forewarned me about how dangerous i… https://t.co/RXoY6kanHM

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